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.
bensondonald: You should try your hand at “Double Dactyls”. They aren’t as popular as the were 75 years ago, but still fun for literary types. Each line is two dactyls, with the fourth and eighth cut short, and either the sixth or seventh line (or both) MUST be a single six-syllable word. Almost always they are about a specific person.
Examples (from which you will guess how long ago they were popular):
“Albany, Schmalbany!”
Governor W.
Averell Harriman
Hated that place!
“Bunch of Albanians!”
Thought it was some kind of
Megalopolitan
Charity case.
“Golly, gee willikers,
Admiral Samuel
Eliot Morison,
Where is your ship?”
“I am the U.S.S.
Historiography’s
Disciplinarian.
Button your lip!”
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.
bensondonald: You should try your hand at “Double Dactyls”. They aren’t as popular as the were 75 years ago, but still fun for literary types. Each line is two dactyls, with the fourth and eighth cut short, and either the sixth or seventh line (or both) MUST be a single six-syllable word. Almost always they are about a specific person.
Examples (from which you will guess how long ago they were popular):
“Albany, Schmalbany!”
Governor W.
Averell Harriman
Hated that place!
“Bunch of Albanians!”
Thought it was some kind of
Megalopolitan
Charity case.
“Golly, gee willikers,
Admiral Samuel
Eliot Morison,
Where is your ship?”
“I am the U.S.S.
Historiography’s
Disciplinarian.
Button your lip!”
Should be termed “pair-a-dactyls”. :-)