I just have to shake my head at Holly. Riding around in a cart is “a good idea”? I guess it could be fun, and it gets you out into the open air, away from the human-stuffed Comic Con anchovy tin…it just doesn’t strike me as something she’d enjoy, and it definitely doesn’t strike me as something John would suggest. It looks like something Tom Batiuk saw somewhere and said, “Hey, I gotta use that.”
If he were a far more interesting person than we’d been led to believe, I’d think John would suggest going to see Homestar Runner’s skull in the background there in the first panel on the left. Or going to eat at Buster’s Crab. (Can you believe I didn’t get that for a couple of minutes? I’m getting senile.)
Physical activity for these three would be a choice of last resort. And maybe that’s how this happened. Maybe all sorts of suggestions were made, and Holly sighed about all of them, and Harry was no help at all, fitfully moaning into his blanket, and John, internally screaming from boredom, finally saw this cart thing, and pointed, and that’s how this strip came into being. Another deadline met, Mr. Batiuk! Whew!
Oh, and the answer to your question, John, is no. None of them are helping you at all. You’ll die alone and afraid, not knowing what’s happening to you. Enjoy!
Son of Stuck Funky 