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