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I’m sorry that today’s strip is such a dud. The next one will be better again!
- Opponent: I suddenly feel a sharp pain in my knee. I’m afraid I must forfeit the match.
- Man: Preparing for the next match?
- Next opponent: My wife wanted to throw away my high school football stuff. Ha! I knew better!
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Hah!. I think, it’s a good strip. Took me a sec to get it, but it got me laughing.
Well… We all would have vested interests… So that’s why it doesnot work…
No, you were right the first time. It’s hilarious. *sage nod*
I mean, she’s already 40/Love at this point anyway, right? There isn’t really any need to intimidate the guy when she can beat him fair and square.
“I used to be a tennis player like you…”
(Does he retire to be a security guard?)
mittfh wrote:
“Then I took a racket to the knee!” 😉
Joshua wrote:
Zoe doesn’t need a reason to intimidate her opponents, so…
I thought it was fairly funny, but maybe it’d have been funnier if we got to see the second guy having to forfeit… because his waist is bigger now, he ended up crushing his balls trying to put the jock strap on. Him laying on the ground whimpering “forfeit” while Zoe gave him a “WTF is wrong with you?” look would have been hilarious!
I think you’re entitled to the occasional ball impact joke. No need to sweat it; let the characters do that.
It would have been funnier if the blank sigh in the final panel said something like
“Please do not leave balls on the court”
For the Australian/Indian/British/African etc… readers, replace ‘football stuff’ with ‘cricket gear’, and you get the same effect.
She’s not intimidating just him; she’s intimidating the whole field.
@ Joshua:
…I don’t get what the “final version” thing is about.
Did I miss a deleted strip?
Comedy. GOLD. My dude.
Novil, I’m a hobbyist tennis player, I’m finding this hilarious, have a go!
This panel is made great by the facial expressions panel.
It’s not funny, but it’s not un-funny either. It’s a webcomic about a racoon. “Sly” is an acceptable punchline, even for the humans.
I don’t get what the final panel is on about; I for one almost found this strip to be comedy gold.
I liked it quite a bit. I love how she’s zeroing in and he’s like, “Ohhhh… Oh no.”
It’s not hilarious but it isn’t a total dud. It’s mildly amusing.
*grins. She Almost went there. He wised up to her aim and left.
The real challenge is hitting a bullseye on such a small target.
“New Balls, please!”
@ Welsh Rat:
You’re going to need a lot of balls to play against Zoey.
The Zoey (psycho) face is great… she is a girl with a great future…or a cell in prison all for her…
It’s_A_Trap wrote:
You have to notice that the contestant in the last panel is not the same as the one who just forfeited. He (erroneously), thinks that a cloth jock strap will protect him from Zoey’s attacks.
I personally thought the 4 initial panels were amazing and the word balloon on the fifth was an excellent punchline. It was funny and great just like that. The rest of the fifth panel wasn’t very funny, but it wasn’t bad… it’s just that compared to the 4 first panels and the punchline in the fifth, the rest of the fifth panel was a letdown. I think that has to do with expectations – it’s already hilarious, so if there was even more to the punchline, I was expecting it to be even funnier… and in actuality, it was less funny.
??? wrote:
You didn’t miss a strip it’s a comment that from concept to publish strip had a loot of ‘rough draft revision ‘ as was commenting it was hard to turn the idea into a good strip
Zoey has an interesting game strategy.
Are those actually allowed?
@ Asrial:
I don’t see why not. There’s no rule against aiming for your opponent’s body.
Normally you either want to be up by the net, or back by the baseline. The middle of the court is generally considered “no man’s land”. (Mostly for the reason that the ball will be hit like in the *first* panel, at your feet, where it’s hard to make a good return.) If that guy can’t even get a racket on balls that height that are right at him, he obviously should back up, which would also give him more reaction time.
If she got him in the groin, wouldn’t the ref say something? Deliberate attempt to injure is a thing in tennis, just almost never enforced because people general DON’T TRY TO DO HURT EACH OTHER.
The strip is hysterical and the four facial expressions are the top. Well done team.
Um. Yeah its not really funny. This whole Zoe arc is kinda pointless and I feel that we have lost any sense of progress for the characters in the strip in place of just more and more gags. I kinda miss the old plot arcs to be honest.
I find it funny…largely because I know that cups aren’t really going to help against that. A tennis ball moving at that speed is going to crack a plastic cup and dent an aluminum one… both of which STILL prevent serious injury, but leave an unforgettable bruise (both physically and on the psyche).
@ Wanderer:
And if it’s a cloth one like we used when I was in high school gym… they don’t really DO anything.
Definitely not a dud, I really like the facial expressions! I wonder if Julia is in the audience…? 😉
Honestly, I think just the top half is all you needed.
Just so hilariously cartoonishly cruel.
Skulker wrote:
That may be a protective cup. Those do exist with their own straps, for those who prefer boxers.
I know this is the unfunny reaction but she would get penalized …and likely after the way she has been playing to that point is likely she would get suspended from the match
Yub, not funny. 🙁
Don’t seem like a dud to me.
Dracke wrote:
Why? For intimidation? I hardly think so. Any competition involves mind games and this is one beauty! Zoey has demonstrated her ability to place a shot with amazing accuracy and her facial expression leaves no doubt as to where the next shot might be.
Since she has not physically harmed anyone, no judge has nay basis on which to penalize or suspend her.
Dracke wrote:
I really cannot see why she should be penalized when her opponent obviously fail to move back to the baseline? I am surprised that guy made it to the County Championships. 🙂
@ Joshua:
As far as I can tell the first panel is a fault, second panel is double fault, point to receiver and it’s now his turn to serve. Though he’s in an awfully odd position for receiving a serve.
If it’s during a rally then he’s obviously completely outmatched if he keeps standing around center court and keep giving her these easy returns.
Knew very little of tennis before this strip, it just seems wrong to me that she keeps serving so I did a very quick lookup on how it’s played. Turns out it’s not like that unless they keep somehow returning to the exact same positions repeatedly after each serve…
@ Sylfa:
There’s no way these are serves; he’s WAY too far up for that (he’s standing *in* the service court in the third panel, for crying out loud) and Zoey’s form in the first panel is for a forehand, not a serve.
See that? That’s ‘love’ in her eyes.
(Tennis joke, lol.)
@ Sylfa:
Watch closely, Zoey is not serving, she’s receiving. Look closely at how she’s hitting the ball, & how far upcourt the old man is receiving the ball. Neither the hit from Zoey nor the old man’s placement on the court are that of a serve.
Honestly Novil, I would have kept the last panel were you said that you thought the joke wasn’t as good. That way future readers would have scratched their heads trying to figure out whether or not they truly got the joke. 🤷♂️
Well that was unexpected.
The original version can still be seen on the “tagged posts” page.