23 April 2007

Squirelly Squirrel

In today's Dinette Set, Burl fires up the grill while the reader:
  • Can't puzzle out the panel at all. Why exactly did Burl hang corn on the cob from a tree branch? To cool it off?
  • Wonders why the artist didn't finish drawing half the background; did she run out of time?
  • Is a little worried by the Boo Radley reference. Is Dale protecting children from Burl, who is playing the neighborhood role of Bob Ewell?
  • Can't figure out what the weird semi-circular indentation in the tree is supposed to be.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I think she didn't finish the background because she realized that it was going to be impossible to tell the string and piece of corn apart from the fence if she went on. And, as we've discussed before, since she believes she's only allowed to draw a panel once and never uses an eraser, she just had to leave it there half-drawn.