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The Far Side
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Hello fellow Far Side fans!
About this community and how I post the comic strip… Many moons ago, I would ask my Dad to save the newspaper for me everyday so I could read my favorite comic strips and one of those was The Far Side. These days of course you find just about anything online including www.thefarside.com where they post several comics a day and I repost them here. Just to note, the date you see in my posts is not the initial release date, but the date they were posted on the website.
The Far Side is a single-panel comic created by Gary Larson and syndicated by Chronicle Features and then Universal Press Syndicate, which ran from December 31, 1979, to January 1, 1995 (when Larson retired as a cartoonist). Its surrealistic humor is often based on uncomfortable social situations, improbable events, an anthropomorphic view of the world, logical fallacies, impending bizarre disasters, (often twisted) references to proverbs, or the search for meaning in life… Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Far_Side
Hope you enjoy and feel free to contribute to the community with art, cool stuff about the author, tattoos, toys and anything else, as long it’s The Far Side!
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Oh wow, there's examples where I get to be the one saying: what?
The core premise is on-brand. A porcupine stuck to a mattress. But he's not in the hospital, like it's an embarrassing accident. There's no domestic setting with one sitcom animal telling the other "Dear, help - I'm stuck again." The other porcupines are holding their hands together like they might be clapping, but there's no onomatopoeia, and no circus diving board adjacent. It's just a bare mattress in an open field. (And before being colorized it must have been a bare mattress below a naked horizon.)
I'm guessing it's just a very early comic. Some germ of an idea that was not crystallized to later standards.
I think it's analogous to the bed of nails, but I think it's meant to be an air mattress. It would explain the look of concentration and the look of concern from the onlookers. Definitely a hazardous stunt for a porcupine.
A scenario with ample imagery to draw on for context cues.
I expect the deeper underlying answer is that the man had a deadline.