Door into Summer – The B-Movie Comic

It’s really down to the wire now – quite obviously, Gregory-kun did not manage to hit a home-run. The All-Star-Team’s keystone combo jumps into action. Cheetah-like! And then, uh…Keystone-Cop-like? I guess that’s were the name ‘keystone combo’ originates from. Which is kinda odd… those guys never gave me the impression of being particularly competent or successful at their jobs. Admittedly, Roscoe Arbuckle had a similar physique as Babe Ruth, and I guess all of those guys were kinda athletic, given how difficult some of those pratfalls and stunts were. And I guess the name isn’t considered demeaning by the people involved – Ryosuke would definitely not put up with that.*

But is it too late? The mummy…has awoken! But only for a couple of seconds, then it got knocked out again straightaway. Which is a blessing in disguise…uh, as another blessing, for I really wouldn’t have liked to repeat the whole first chapter here.

But the play works, and Snuka is down and out. Way down and out cold, even. Honest-Abe-kun’s mastery is truly unmatched, Tanuki Kazuya is likely eating his hat in jealously right now. Or just because he’s hungry, he is a tanuki after all, and they’ll eat anything. But Honest-Abe-kun has correctly predicted the flow of the match – and in a match that involves a runner being mummified and locked in a sarcophagus, it does take a lot of skill to make an accurate prediction. (I was going to say “skill and experience”, but I seriously doubt that Honest-Abe-kun has experienced the mummy thing before in any match). So he called for exactly the right pitch from Mihashi: the mummy-crusher. Look it up, you’ll find it any book on baseball pitches… somewhere around page 1500. Only Mihashi could have pulled such an obscure pitch off that perfectly.

The decisive point goes… to the All-Star-Team! Leaving the score at…

uh…at…

uh, I’ll get back to you on that. It’s not important for today’s strip, and I need a moment to figure it out.