April 30, 2008
#417: The Man Who Fell Sideways explain
[Cueball standing, with a dotted line perpendicular to him and a 30 degree angle going downwards.]
From a young age, gravity pulled him wrong.
[Cueball bouncing around his house.]
Sometimes east, sometimes west. When he was restrained, it grew erratic.
WHAM WHAM
[Cueball bouncing/rolling on the ground.]
So he fell.
Cueball: AAAA
THUMPA THUMPA
[Cueball bouncing/rolling on the ground in a desert.]
Constantly
Cueball: AAAAAAAAA
[Cueball bouncing/rolling off a rock on the ground in a desert.]
Over land…
Cueball: AAAAA-THUD-A
[Cueball bouncing/rolling on the ground in the desert.]
Cueball: AAAAAAAAA
[Cueball bouncing/rolling on the ground in the desert.]
Cueball: A-THUD-AAAAAA
[Cueball bouncing/rolling on the ground in the desert.]
Cueball: AA-THUD-AAAAA
[Cueball skating the surface of the sea.]
And sea.
Cueball: AAAAAAAAAAAA
[Cueball skating the surface of the sea.]
Cueball: AAAAAAAA
[Cueball skating the surface of the sea.]
Cueball: AAAAAA
[Cueball skating the surface of the sea.]
Cueball: AAAAAAAA
[Tree in the savanna, with Cueball off the panel.]
He found, where he could, food-
Cueball: AAAAAAAAAAAA
[Tree in the savanna, with Cueball still off the panel, but zoomed out so that part of Cueball’s bounce/roll path is visible.]
Cueball: AAAAAAAAA
[Cueball upside-down, still bouncing/rolling in the savannah, with a gazelle galloping away from him.]
GALLOP GALLOP
Cueball: AAAAAAAAA
[Savanna with a tree in it.]
Cueball: AAAAAAAAAAA
[Megan standing, with Cueball off screen.]
And love.
Cueball: AAAA-THUD-AAAA
[Megan standing, with Cueball off screen.]
Cueball: THUD ACK CRASH
[Cueball crashing into Megan]
Cueball: Hiwhat’syourname-
WHAM
[Megan on the ground, with Cueball off screen.]
Cueball: AAAAAAA-THUD-AAA
[Megan speaking to Hairy.]
Megan: I met this guy. He knocked me over and tumbled into the distance.
[Megan speaking to the same man from the previous panel, with Hairy’s hand to his mouth.]
Megan: We only shared a few seconds, but in his panicked scream I heard something beautiful.
[Megan speaking to the same man from the previous panel.]
Megan: I think… I think I’m…
[Megan speaking to the same man from the previous panel.]
Hairy: Falling for him?
Megan: I wasn’t going to say it.
[Megan at hospital with doctor, giving birth.]
She never saw him again. But nine months later…
Doctor: Okay, push!
[Megan at hospital with doctor and new baby, who is bouncing/rolling away.]
Doctor: It’s a gir—
Megan: !!
Doctor: Whoops!
Baby: Ga! Ga!
[Baby bouncing/rolling out of hospital.]
Baby: WHEEEEEEEEEEEEE
[Baby bouncing/rolling in front of a sunset.]
Baby: EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
The End