The city is being destroyed by a giant marionette. The scissors are to cut its strings. Unfortunately, it looks like the colorist thought the lines of the strings were sunbeams or lasers or something.
Yeah, Andrew has it. Of course, cutting the strings might enrage the puppeteer, and maybe that’s worse, so you get the Seatopians instead of MechaPeeWee. (Not going to look up what a person operating a marionette is called.)
Years ago I wrote a bunch of limericks and rerun them on Facebook every year or so. Semi-appropriate:
A spectacle uncontemplatable:
Nativity scenes made inflatable.
When flattened by day,
An impious display.
And even at night they’re debatable.
Also semi-appropriate: Mr. Boffo had a strip showing a scowling giant rising over a city skyline with the heading “Trouble”. The next panel, headed by”Real Trouble”, revealed that the giant was in fact a gigantic hand puppet.
Comics I Don't Understand 
The city is being destroyed by a giant marionette. The scissors are to cut its strings. Unfortunately, it looks like the colorist thought the lines of the strings were sunbeams or lasers or something.
Yeah, Andrew has it. Of course, cutting the strings might enrage the puppeteer, and maybe that’s worse, so you get the Seatopians instead of MechaPeeWee. (Not going to look up what a person operating a marionette is called.)
Years ago I wrote a bunch of limericks and rerun them on Facebook every year or so. Semi-appropriate:
A spectacle uncontemplatable:
Nativity scenes made inflatable.
When flattened by day,
An impious display.
And even at night they’re debatable.
Also semi-appropriate: Mr. Boffo had a strip showing a scowling giant rising over a city skyline with the heading “Trouble”. The next panel, headed by”Real Trouble”, revealed that the giant was in fact a gigantic hand puppet.