No Bars

Panel 1: What’s “odd” is, do people in real life begin sentences with “Odd…”? Seems a little old-timey. It would be no less natural to have Funky say, “Hell-o, what’s this?”

If that’s a new iPhone 4 that Funky’s using, there’s a simple explanation why he’s “not getting any bars”: Some iPhone 4 models dropping calls when held left-handed (via Engadget). But the new iPhones just hit the market this week, and TB crafts his narrative a year in advance…

I’m thinking about that black third panel in Thursday’s strip…it led the reader to believe that one or both of the drivers were dead, or at least unconscious. Then the next day we discover that (apparently) there was no crash, only a near-miss, and Laughing Girl had left the scene. Funky’s alive…but his phone is mysteriously dead. To quote O.B. Dan from yesterthread: “Next stop, The Twilight Zone!”