I’m trying to be fair, readers. Really! But how can I resist such low-hanging fruit? While Jules Rivera won’t show us how bats were removed from Violet’s music hall, we do get to enjoy these heartwarming scenes of symbolic fishing and symbolic male bonding.
Would you say Rivera has done much fishing? In panel 1 good ol’ Cliff looks like he’s hauling in a big one, though his line is only slightly more taught than cooked pasta. But maybe they’re all just taking turns playing the boy-bonding pastime, “Mine is bigger than yours!”
I’m not exactly sure what the heck is going on in panel 2, either, as Cliff and Mark make a rookie’s mistake of holding their rods outside of the boat. What a great technique to teach the noobs!
As for panel 3, we have an impressive underwater scene. Maybe Rivera could move over to a comic strip version of the old TV show, Sea Hunt.
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If this is Rivera and not a guest artist, I think she has found her calling in her fish artwork. She may consider having a strip with nothing in it but fish, communicating with each other through “thought bubbles”.
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Like the fish on PeeWee’s Playhouse? :)
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Perhaps the reason Cliff’s line is not very taught is that the rod has no reel, unless Cliff is covering it with his right hand in extremely poor fishing form. I will overlook the fact that Cliff’s hat logo is white in the first panel and orange in the second. I am not going to play “what is different in these pictures” today…
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Yes, you can fall down the rabbit hole comparing details between panels. Of course, Rivera might not be responsible for the coloring. Some cartoonists do that, others leave it to the syndicate.
So, either a hidden or forgot-to-draw-it reel? Good observation, either way. And what about Cliff’s left hand? Eek! Throw me a rope and pull me up!
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