See Wayno’s blog for notes on how these two versions came to be.
(Making this a post rather than adding a comment to Random Comments thread only because that provides access to the Image-Compare gizmo.)
(Bonus) Bizarro On the Level
See Wayno’s blog for notes on how these two versions came to be.
(Making this a post rather than adding a comment to Random Comments thread only because that provides access to the Image-Compare gizmo.)
Comics I Don't Understand 
LOL either way! (And the drawing difference deets are not important in the least.)
I had to go read the blog to spot the difference between the two…
@Targuman – For whatever reason, my browser presented the two images separate and side-by-side for a minute before resolving into the slider gimmick. While they were separate I couldn’t spot the difference either. It was like those frustrating “spot six differences” kids’ puzzle comics. But when the slider kicked in, it was easy — just keep on flipping and see what seems to move.
So the picture hanging in the gallery does have a title …
Sorry, even with the comparator gizmo, I still cannot find the difference. I would probably have made a lousy astronomer.
@Kilby, just go read it at the blog, Wayno explains it more succinctly than one of us could summarize.
@deety I just didn’t know where to look, once you do, the difference is easy to spot. (And for those who do not want to go to the blog, look at the base of the tower relative to the frame.)
Without having looked at Wayno’s blog yet, I can feel the pain he may have felt if he really did make such a huge mistake for what I think is a really good layout of a gag.
“for what I think is” -> “in what I think is” (Will I ever remember to proof read after every edit?)
Weird I couldn’t see any difference even though I consciously did think the image has to be so that the tower is tilting relative to the ground but the picture is tilted so the ground will need to be appear at a slope to us. But even thinking that, and looking straight at the ground, I didn’t see that.
Only when I read the blog and Wayno said exactly what I thought did I notice the difference.
Deety: “And the drawing difference deets are not important in the least.”
Whoa! Of course the are! In one it’s a painting of a perfectly straight tower placed in the frame crooked and the hung crooked to compensate the crooked framing of the painting. The other it is a painting of the leaning tower of Pisa, painted and framed in proper perspective but hung at an angle to correct the tilting of the actual tower. ENTIRELY different!
I’m happy you’ve come to see it my way. (And that’s with tilted head!) 🤪
It took me a few swipes back and forth to spot it.
Thanks for posting with that cool sliding comparison gizmo. And thanks to everyone for the comments.
If I come upon a particularly interesting old building on a hilly street, I will photograph it so the street is level, making the building appear to lean. 🙂
So was that Thee Wayno in person? Why didn’t he have a blue checkmark?
Dana K: who was Thee Wayno in person? Where? And why should he have a blue checkmark?
Ed, Wayno is a cartoonist, who has become Dan Piraro’s junior partner in producing Bizarro. Wayno seems now to be the author of most of the Monday to Saturday Bizarros, and did the one in this post. He also issues a weekly blog entry, and that is where he presented the alternate version of this panel and explained it.
He also commented in this thread! I think that is what Dana is remarking on. I don’t know why they wrote “Thee” but it could be a way of showing an emphatic the as when you ask “Is that the Diana Rigg?”
And the bit about blue check mark we discussed earlier in the week – I don’t know if Dana is alluding to that Twitter practice of marking verified accounts, or they are referencing it indirectly , via the previous CIDU discussion.
And please, nobody say “I thought we didn’t want cartoonists commenting here”. If you take a glance at the recent revised FAQ write-up, yes, we would discourage seeking “horse’s mouth” type answers to puzzles we are working out together on our own. But it also specifically warns against putting that reluctance in any way that would make someone feel unwelcome.
Mitch, there is a rapper — who apparently also does some music — calling herself “Megan Thee Stallion.” Perhaps “Thee Wayno” was inspired by that?
And yes, I used to be a huge Bizarro fan, until Dan Piraro semi-retired to live in Mexico and do only Sunday strips. Wayno is occasionally funny, but only that, IMHO. I haven’t read the Wayno blog.
And somehow, I totally missed Wayno’s post here, and for that I apologize.
There’s also a WWE wrestler who’s recently been rebranded as “Ashante Thee Adonis.”
http://www.onlineworldofwrestling.com/profile/tehuti-miles/
The topic came up this week on another of lists, and someone pointed out this much earlier example:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thee_Midniters#The_name