Wednesday, August 23, 2006

I kinda like the name "Rapadapa"

Woo hoo! The black convertible returns in today's strip. And I'm enjoying the fact that there is no "bad guy" in today's strip, either; no alleged idiots other, I suppose, than the people who named the various bodies of water.

The time warp in the second panel is fantastic. From the woman's outfit, I'd say she's from the late 1800s/early 1900s. The man, however, seems to be wearing a more modern suit, which is confusing. I'm just going to have to go ahead and assume that she's a time traveler, and he's pointing out the country's landmarks. She's clearly about to tell him how there used to be a small cottage on the banks of the Rapadapa River, explaining the patch of land where there's no grass.

And yes, it's amazing how even though in one particular location a river is fairly narrow, it's still a river! Let's ignore the fact that it could be huge in other sections. And I've never seen anything that big called a creek--250 yards??? That's 2.5 football fields! (Which Scaduto clearly didn't take into account when he drew the thing.)

Honestly, this kind of reminds of those "Why do we park on a driveway and park on a driveway?" things.

2 Comments:

At 12:53 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

I like that the conversation seems to carry over from frame to frame, yet it is clearly two different couples, no matter how much we account for Scaduto's tendency to go wildly off-model for his characters. It's as if the old dude was so grateful to finish the sentence of the young guy behind the wheel, he was glad to wait a few years to finally get his words in.

 
At 1:31 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Thats a 1960 Impala convertible I'm pretty sure..Oh yeah!!

 

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