(Alert: I had the devil of a time getting this image to post. Now I’m finding that the strips in the prior posts are no longer showing on my computer; just placeholder errors. I think you can all see today’s strip plus any of the prior ones, correct? Leave me a comment if you are having any issues. Not sure what brought this on.)

This is day two of the “Violet rolls her harp” scenario and I’m not sure what the point is. Could be a continuation of the prior adventure as I previously suggested. Otherwise, this seems like meaningless story padding. But that doesn’t jive, since these stories are written and drawn several weeks in advance; so, it isn’t as if Rivera needs to pad the story (though I have said as much in the past).

The short view is that Rivera wasted another day just to make another stupid pun. The longer view is that we could be looking at a subtle plot in progress for Violet to bring humiliation and/or embarrassment to Cherry.

After all, Violet did not really need to lug that heavy harp around by herself when she could have gotten Honest Ernest to do it. Right? She must have deliberately set up this situation to snare Cherry. This reminds me of the old woman in the gingerbread house who lured in Hansel and Gretel. We’ll see how this pans out over the week. I’m hoping for some first-class personal grievance-dialog and an attempt at spiteful vengeance.