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The Agony of de Feet
There’s an obvious reference to a security gate in this comic, but why just shoes and lower legs?
Command key!
From maggiethecartoonist:
A hasty X-it?
X is sometimes used as a shorthand for Christ (hence Xmas) but that doesn’t seem to make the meaning clearer.
Oh those Knicks-Sixers!
From Dirk the Daring:
The office assistant who handles the room reservations system has evidently done it again! These hapless office workers just want to hold their meeting, but don’t even have regulation footwear.
Just don’t cross the streams
From Irv:
If there’s some pop culture reference here, it’s beyond any of the editors. Mitch suggests “Release the Kraken” but that doesn’t seem close enough.
(Further editorial rumination: Releasing the tension is a common theme in meditation or massage, but here they seem to be trying to harvest it. To what end? Could they solidify it somehow and then be able to cut that tension with a knife? Why would they be doomed?)
Some retro Argyle, just for fun
Some retro Argyle, just for fun
Not a CIDU really, but there is an unspoken line someone may want to fill in for us.
(Yes, this one was previously seen here.)
And the simple lesson of the story is
(Creator’s title The Race.)
BTW, for regular readers of the comic, does the Girl have some sort of alter ego or doppelganger? Differentiated by number of hair spikes, and in this one by wearing shorts or skirt?
Whatoscopic?
Darren sent:
which sparked a lively discussion about arthroscopic vs. laparoscopic vs. the generic “minimally invasive” surgery.
Meanwhile, it also proved to be a mystery for some!
I practice a lot
There are a number of half-plausible explanations that occurred to Chemgal (who sent it in) and the editors. But not enough to choose a best one among them, nor know how to promote a candidate to fully-likely.
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