2009-06-25

A single very tall, narrow vertical comic panel. An enormously long, slightly curving gray pole or pillar rises from green grass at the bottom up through a daytime sky and into black starry night space at the top. Crowded onto the tiny platform at the very top of the pole, far above everything, is a cluster of people clinging together and looking down anxiously. At the base of the pole on the ground, a small crowd of people has gathered: several men in suits stand around talking, and a man and a woman sit nearby. Planted in the grass beside them is a hand-lettered yard sign reading "FREE THREESOMES!" with smaller scribbled writing below — the bait that apparently lured the people now stranded at the top of the impossibly tall pole. Votey (bonus panel): a black-and-white scene captioned "EARLIER..." Two people talk; one asks, "So, what are you doing this weekend?" and the other replies, "Nuthin'. Why?"