To and Fro – Chapter 9, Prologue, Strip 3

Immediately proving the truth behind the opening titles, the gang’s all here.

And dealing with the aftermath of the explosion, which – unsurprisingly – seems to have originated with some sort or experiment. One, apparently, which everyone wishes to succeed. So likely a cure for cancer or something else of undeniable value to humanity, I guess? Yeah, probably not so much…

The disaster recovery effort goes on in a rather uncoordinated and haphazard way, of course…since that’s the way actors tend to go about any sort of on-screen work they aren’t familiar with. Which in most cases covers any kind of work beyond acting and waiting tables.

You might expect Lee Douglas to have more experience with manual labor, given the huge amount of moonlighting he has to do to reach half of minimum wage on average…but while he has experience with any kind of tough and menial jobs, disaster recovery is not among them. If he knew how to do disaster recovery, he could try to recover from the on-going disaster that is his whole life – and we couldn’t have that, could we? Would ruin the whole character.

Repairing the damage to the roof should be easy, though, since it only requires removing the unconvincing decal… =P

And speaking of broken buildings…the fourth wall gets broken right away and blatantly by Snuka, and that only four strips into the new chapter. That must be some kind of new record for me. Not one to be proud of, but still…

More on Monday.