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[mudokon]

Well, now we can finally put all of this madness behind us.

Tomorrow: Roast Beef doesn't like Ray's new sunglasses, and also, Philippe is five.

[bonaparte]

wow, performance art that morphs into a moral test of an individual.  i wonder what would've happened if ray had stayed and attended to the seemingly-dying cartlidge head.  would balloons and confetti have dropped from the ceiling while scantily clad women escorted in a new orleans jazz band to symbolically bear CH and Ray away on their shoulders while steppin a lively jig and blaring out such songs as have not been heard for some time in the crescent city?  that is what i would like to think would have happened, but alas, Ray is a coward and we will never know.

[ndpatel]

the art deco font for the sound effects is clutch.

also: i really want a cadillac logo baseball hat. however, i look silly in hats. this is a major, major dilemma.

[Doc]

I still maintain that CH really did die, it's just that he is a showman and wanted to be sent off with tacky showmanship and something for his audience to remember the occasion by.

[misterqueue]

I think whether or not Messire CH ate the dirt is really rather up to the readers interpretation.  Personally it's much more fulfilling to me to think that he did.  The very idea that someone would go to such lengths to make a statement is such macabre theatre of the mind that it makes my vile black heart leap with utter joy... and maybe also pudding.

Still though, the caddy cap is a nice touch.

[Emory]

That last panel is classic.

[MSC]

performance art that morphs into a moral test of an individual.

Well put, that's exactly what this was.

Excellent details all around.  The bird...the hat...the atmosphere of waking up in the morning.

I still don't understand why Ray sleeps in such a small bed.

[V-Adore]

I'm more confused about why Ray would own a Cadillac baseball cap. That said, I love the detail, especially the whole panel dedicated to the bird.

Lovely ending. I don't really think it matters whether CH died or not, although this heavily suggests that it's a standard show for him. (Or, well, he just really wanted to do his suicide up nice.) Nonetheless, wonderful.

[CortJstr]

I assume that CH was in the house. I don't think just an old-timey camera would've been enough to make Ray faint but seeing an already weird looking guy that he thought was dead probably would.

If I didn't already know that Ray drove a Cadillac I don't think I would've been able to ID that logo. So have they phased out that god awful escalade yet or what?

[Bobby Isosceles]

I wonder if the premise of this week's strip (abandoning a dying man, etc.) started with Onstad watching last night's series premiere of "E-Ring," hearing the Nonpoint cover of "In the Air Tonight," and recalling the urban legend about it.

Guess we'll never know.

[miles]

I wonder if the premise of this week's strip (abandoning a dying man, etc.) started with Onstad watching last night's series premiere of "E-Ring," hearing the Nonpoint cover of "In the Air Tonight," and recalling the urban legend about it.

Guess we'll never know.

Weird, that song (the original version) immediately burrowed in my ear after reading the strip, and I'm afraid it will stay there for some time.

[Turbo Ninja]

I'm more confused about why Ray would own a Cadillac baseball cap.

He probably got it free when he bought his Escalade.  Cadillac likes to give away $8 promotional items with the purchase of $45,000 trucks.

[miles]

I'm more confused about why Ray would own a Cadillac baseball cap.

He probably got it free when he bought his Escalade.  Cadillac likes to give away $8 promotional items with the purchase of $45,000 trucks.

I think it's probably more common with Porsche owners, but it made perfect sense to me that Ray would own Cadillac accessories to show-off.  I'm more confused about why Onstad devoted a whole panel to it.

[JordanB]

The sudden change in atmosphere from the eerie noir
outside 921 Elden to the songbird whistling a chipper tune
is really quite beautiful.

Did it creep anyone else out that this change implied,
though, that someone (CH? of of his cronies?)
took Ray home, undressed him, put him to bed,
and left the souvenir photo for him to find?
If we didn't already recognize Ray's bed, the Cadillac cap
is there to prove that Ray's back at home, not in some
guest bedroom CH has already set up.

[Max]

Is anyone else noticing the hand taking the photo?  Is that what CH's hand looks like?  Isn't that a paw?