The best I got is that the ground is but a thin veneer over a hollow earth. Lio’s kiddy pool is a passage through. He uses it to swim though, just dangling over the void.
(At first I thought the pool was actually flipped over and hanging in the air, but it remains upright – you can tell by the decorative fishies.)
@Andrew: I hadn’t noticed the decorative fishes (or the fact that there’s a fringe of grass sticking up out of the ground in panel 1, but not panel 2 — that also supports your theory).
But if it’s a hollow earth, why is the water staying in the pool, not being drawn down by gravity, whereas Lio’s legs and the water dripping off those legs seem to be pulled down by gravity? Surface tension? :)
I think it may be intended as more of a dimensional portal than a hollow earth passage.
Cartoon Network’s Codename: Kids Next Door did a mirror dimension episode where the portal between the two dimensions was a swimming pool, and I’m sure it wasn’t the first to consider the idea. Good episode for Dee Bradley Baker fans.
Lio has crossed over into “Stranger Things”.
At other times, Lio’s pool has unexpected depths.
Gumby went through a mirror into another dimension in an Art Clokey film in the 1950’s. And it was an old idea even then, going through the looking glass.
Well, Brian, it’s a different pool. You wouldn’t expect an inflatable kiddy pool to hold back the infinite void or whatever, but it’s fine for covering up a murder-hole.
The Twilight Zone episode “The Bewitchin’ Pool” (1964) also featured a pool with a dimensional portal.
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The best I got is that the ground is but a thin veneer over a hollow earth. Lio’s kiddy pool is a passage through. He uses it to swim though, just dangling over the void.
(At first I thought the pool was actually flipped over and hanging in the air, but it remains upright – you can tell by the decorative fishies.)
@Andrew: I hadn’t noticed the decorative fishes (or the fact that there’s a fringe of grass sticking up out of the ground in panel 1, but not panel 2 — that also supports your theory).
But if it’s a hollow earth, why is the water staying in the pool, not being drawn down by gravity, whereas Lio’s legs and the water dripping off those legs seem to be pulled down by gravity? Surface tension? :)
I think it may be intended as more of a dimensional portal than a hollow earth passage.
Cartoon Network’s Codename: Kids Next Door did a mirror dimension episode where the portal between the two dimensions was a swimming pool, and I’m sure it wasn’t the first to consider the idea. Good episode for Dee Bradley Baker fans.
Lio has crossed over into “Stranger Things”.
At other times, Lio’s pool has unexpected depths.
Gumby went through a mirror into another dimension in an Art Clokey film in the 1950’s. And it was an old idea even then, going through the looking glass.
Well, Brian, it’s a different pool. You wouldn’t expect an inflatable kiddy pool to hold back the infinite void or whatever, but it’s fine for covering up a murder-hole.
The Twilight Zone episode “The Bewitchin’ Pool” (1964) also featured a pool with a dimensional portal.