In order to encourage the participation of juvenile delinquents in sports*, there was an effort to reduce financial barriers to entry. One of those measures allows former delinquents to continue using their current baseball bats, even if they have been enhanced with rusty nails or barbed wire. That way they won’t have to own two separate bats.

A positive side-effect of this rule is the enhanced protection it affords against zombie attacks during baseball games…but let’s not stress that one too much, since both Gregory as well as Usazawa might considered it a bit thoughtless.

And, yeah, the nails weren’t visible on the bat Youichi carried in the final panel of the last strip…but hey, it’s a B-movie, so who would be surprised by continuity errors. I guess that scene was shot on a different day, and the enhanced bat wasn’t available. Perhaps George Geekish had not finished modifying it yet, or Nolan Nobucks had borrowed it for his negotiations with the guys from the union. You see, he had a bit of an argument with these guys. Nolan offered to distribute 80% of the movies profits to the actors and crew…but the union says that only amounts to an hourly wage of 71 cents, which they consider a bit on the low end.

More on Monday.

* In the hope that it’ll foster more ethical and considerate behavior, obviously. And the delinquents might also profit, actually.