You know, if Honest-Abe-kun and Mihashi were archeologists, this moment would be the high-point of their whole lives: the moment in which they discover an undisturbed sarcophagus, clearly belonging to a pharaoh based on the gilding. All archeologists working in Egypt dream of something like that, and up to now Pierre Montet is the only one to whom it happened.
And now Honest-Abe-kun and Mihashi could join that circle-of-up-to-now-one…if they were archeologists. But they are, in fact, high school baseba…uh, cricket players. And they weren’t looking for any dead pharaohs, they’re looking for the Pitch of the Gods. Any sarcophagi they run into on the way there are, essentially, only part of the backdrop.
So they are less moved by the enthusiasm of discovery…and more sobered by the fact that this is clearly a child-sized sarcophagus. Which makes Honest-Abe-kun spontaneously realize that there have always been tragedies throughout history! Really? You’re realizing that only now? What have your history teachers taught you in all those years you already spent in high school? Don’t tell me you spend all of those periods just staring out of the window and thinking of cricket…
But then this strip returns to its B-movie origins, and the lid of the sarcophagus is pushed aside…from the inside! In B-movie land, only an undead pharaoh is a good pharaoh.
More on Thursday.