A real stampede, is it? Just how many people are there, anyway? Didn’t a lot of them already leave, as we saw earlier (May 30)? At that point, people were just walking out. Now, it’s progressed past the riot stage, all the way up to the dreaded stampede stage. But where are these people stampeding to, and why? The hall is not aflame. At least, not yet. If anything, these investors should be chasing down the Crypto Bros!

I’m curious whether Kelly Welly’s scream of “AIYEEE!” in panel 3 is a legitimate use of the expression. It is usually reserved for specific scenarios, such as: 1) Westerns, where Apache chiefs get shot by inexperienced white women aiming a gun in their general direction; 2) When the bad guy misses his chance to kill James Bond and goes hurtling over the side of a mountain; and 3) in comedies like Home Alone, where one of the house breakers climbs in through a window and steps on a board of nails deliberately placed under it. I’m not sure tripping meets the minimum usage requirement.

Perhaps the Crypto Bros really are tapping into the amateur investment pool, which would explain why there are so many people here and why they are going crazy. Professional investors would have seen through this scam in no time at all. And probably already did.

Mark is conveniently absent from today’s panels! Possibly so that he can make a dramatic appearance tomorrow and rescue Kelly Welly, whose personal pronoun we learn is them ((according to the narration in panel 3).

But leave it to Kelly to try and keep up with the crazy crowd (panel 2), rather than just let them pass by. So why did Rivera go for this “rescue the lady in distress” trope? I would have thought Rivera would turn that cliché on its head and have Kelly save Mark. Well, there’s still time for that, Rivera!