by Kilby

Working (it all) out

Irv submitted this Wizard of Id Sunday strip as a CIDU, commenting: “The second and third frames in the second row are what IDU. If the Wizard is cheating, shouldn’t the beam and hangers be visible there as well as in the last frame? Otherwise, maybe he is cheating and conjures the beam and hangers to ‘prove’ he wasn’t using magic in the previous frames even though he was? All told, IDU what’s going on here.“

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I agree with Irv: if there is no magic here, then the logistics of the Wizard’s cheating scheme simply do not work, for multiple reasons. The same problem in the second and third panels of the second row also applies to the first, and the hooks would also be visible in the third panel of the bottom row, since the barbell is drawn a little too low. Finally, the Wizard’s arms in the first panel of the bottom row appear to be impossibly long.

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  4. Unknown's avatar


    I don’t think it’s a drawing mistake. Through all the panels until the last he can’t deny he’s using magic. So, when confronted and he goes “Whoops!”, he magically creates the weights hanging from the beams, hoping the person questioning him is not intelligent enough to realize they weren’t there all along and that it was a non magical cheat. I agree it is a very weak premise with lots of holes.

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  6. Unknown's avatar

    I think he was using magic all the while, but didn’t want the guy to know he was using magic, so in the last frame he conjures up the braces/ropes when the guy confronts him.

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  8. Unknown's avatar

    The gym instructor is definitely shorter than the Wizard but surely weighs more, and it’s all muscle mass.

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