State Fair Day Off

The fate of the cave explorers will have to wait a day. We (my wife and I) are heading out to the State Fair Thursday morning very early, so I won’t have enough time to put together a blog with any degree of interest, at least from my side. That means there will be a double-header on Friday.

In the meantime, I’m looking forward to fried cheese curds; roasted corn-on-the-cob; shakshuka lamb meatballs; Hmong corndogs; variously-prepared puff pastray-wrapped pork sausage slices on a stick; a concoction of pound cake layered with roasted bananas, butterscotch sauce, etc., and topped with whipped cream and some other stuff; some eat-right-away choc chip cookies, maybe a milk shake, and some mini donuts. I’m not sure what I’ll get in the afternoon, though. Maybe a foot-long hotdog or a pork chop on a stick. Can’t go wrong with pork chops! For those interested, there are plenty of vegetarian foods as well, and I’ll probably sample a few of them, too.

Hope you enjoy my day off!

“We’ll be back on track after a word from our sponsor …us!”

Is that a camera with a telephoto lens in Diana Dagger’s hands? I seem to recall she showed up with a video camera and tripod, which we saw back on August 15 and then again in silhouette this past Monday. Well, I reckon she can have brought in both, right? Might just be my own confusion. But she’ll have a great view of the expected flood as it washes the Goofball Bros into the bottom of the cave. If anybody is expecting real tragedy here, forget it. This all parody and farce. About the only thing that ever happens is somebody breaks a leg or an arm. Even neglected gorillas just get heat stroke, but then recover and get placed in nice homes.

Art Dept. For some reason, Jules Rivera seems to be laying down thicker lines here, especially in panel 1. Given Rivera’s simplified style, I think the thicker lines actually work better, giving the figures more presence and a stronger sense of mass. Relatively speaking, that is. It’s a contrast to panel 3, which looks more like the drawing Rivera normally relies on. Even the lines in the cave have a different feel between the panels.