[0452] Under A Killer Balloon: Episode 1, Page 10
└ posted on Monday, 4 February 2013, by Novil
- Sandy South: After recovering the stolen goods, we delivered the delinquent to the authorities. Unsurprisingly for this hellhole of a city, the judge turned out to be no stranger to cruel and unusual punishment.
- Ye Thuza: No sweets for a month!
- Sandy South: However, the lavish salary for my services soon dispelled all these superfluous thoughts on human rights violations.
- Cloud: Thank you so much!
- Sandra: Justice has been served once again, my dear friend.
- Qoo: Now, about that sign…
- Sandy South: That can wait till tomorrow.
![[0452] Under A Killer Balloon: Episode 1, Page 10](/comics/2013-02-04-0452-under-a-killer-balloon-episode-1-page-10.png "[0452] Under A Killer Balloon: Episode 1, Page 10")
Woo’s face in the second panel…
Poor guy! He did all the work and Sandra gets the «lavish salary».
Next time: The Case of the missing office sign
OR
Next time: The Case of the Corrupt Judge XD
That’s not fair! Qoo solved the case, so Cloud should be thanking HIM in panel 2, not Sandra…
Wait, bad mental image!
Sandy: Fix the sign, give you your bonus… (swings legs down, pats top of desk) …or your salary… (produces end of a bratwurst from desk drawer)…
Qoo: (bouncing onto desk) Pay, and bonus, please! Forget sign. Num num nom (starts munching bratwurst, rolls over into belly-petting position.)
Why do something today when you can postpone it to tomorrrow?
Watch out Judge Judy! there’s a new judge in town, here comes Action Judge Ye Thuza!
Petah-Petah wrote:
Why change the sign, when you can just say that the agency is named ‘Jenny Murphy’? There’s nothing stating that Jenny Murphy is anything other than a name, so just go with it! Seriously, tomorrow is way too much effort into changing that sign.
This looks like the end of this arc. I just want to say how much I enjoyed this story, from Sandy and Qoo’s interactions to the noir shadows to the delightfully over-the-top language.
Looking forward to seeing South on the case again sometime! =D
@ Sambo:
Somehow I don’t think Woo would want a cut of that particular payment, he he.
NO SWEETS FOR A MONTH?!
Ye Thuza is a “hanging judge” apparently, no mercy for criminals!
I hope we see Sandy South on the case again at some future date.
Looks to me like Qoo wanted in on some of that payment. Maybe next time he can solve a case for Lily.
*Nudge nudge* *Wink wink*
Now now Cloud, don’t forget to give Qoo a kiss too!
Do I take it that “sweets” in this context is referring to desserts? In some parts of the world (squalid, unimportant third-world backwaters like the USA for example), sweets are lollies. 😉
Poor Qoo. But at least he got some tummy rubs out of it (from Yuna, earlier).
Melkior wrote:
Really, what part of the USA? My squalid, unimportant third-world backwater portion of the USA never equated the term ‘sweets’ to mean ‘lollies’. I have a feeling this may be a regional thing. Where I am, sweets means deserts/candy… nice and simple! *Unless you are talking about panel 2, which is an entirely different kind of sweets.*
Good.
Althouth sentence MUST always be cruel- else there is no punishment. And it must be unusual enough so it is SIGNIFICANT for the guilty.
What is she, Judge Judy and Executioner?
This was an excellent storyline.
Your change in drawing and writting really pulled it off.
Well done! 😀
@ Sambo:
Although, I don’t think Woo would have wanted it…
@ Frozenwolf150:
How is that a bad mental image? Cloud could be giving Qoo belly rubs, or even ear skritches (I have yet to meet a fur-bearing ANYTHING that doesn’t like being skritched behind the ears. I like being skritched behind the years – my wife has used it to calm me down when people are getting irritating…
C. W. Roden wrote:
Maybe even see Sandy South begin to display some investigative competence of her own? I get the feeling she’s new at this still…
Enjoyed the arc – and there’s just always something so damned cute about girls dressing in boys’ clothes. No, I don’t know why.
Went through each chapter at least once since November of last year and am hooked.
Read the last chapter, I was half expecting that we’d see Sandy receiving her payment. Good to see that I expected right.
Petah-Petah wrote:
“One of the greatest labor-saving devices of today is tomorrow.”
@Paeris Kiran: You got that right.
As someone else has said, the concept of “cruel and unusual punishment” is silly. If it’s not cruel, what is it? Kind? And if it’s not unusual, what is it? Usual?
In a very real sense, both cruel and unusual define punishment, otherwise it’s not punishment.
Of course we then get into the questions of whether or not certain forms of punishment are appropriate or effective, but that’s a whole ‘nother can of worms. :-p
@Robert: Yes, I guess it’s a regional thing. I’ve read too many old USA-dominated comic books for my own good. :-J
Just read through the comic from beginning to this strip, and I gotta say I really enjoyed it. Woo was fun, but I have to admit my favorite character was Larisa, with Cloud and his family right behind her and then just barely behind them Sandy and Woo, though the interactions between all of them are awesome.
Also… is it just me, or does anyone else think it’s possible that if Larisa and / or Cloud ever find out about Woo being able to talk, that they’ll just shrug it off? Well, possibly after Larisa’s after likely initial reaction which will almost certainly involve flames…
@ Sambo:
But Qoo got his payment from the culprit, in the form of illicit tummy rubs.
He’s just mad she’s getting rewarded for doing nothing.
Something’s wrong here, I can’t click next… Did I just reach the most recent strip? That was a fun two days, though.
Oh well, back to silently shipping Larisa x Sandy.
@ Frozenwolf150:
paradox as well, He knows not of Woo’s fluency in the English language
@ nitro:
also im sad that we never got a second close call to the discovery of Woo’s speech ability.
Didn’t Sandy suspect Yuna from the beginning?
Qoo/Woo: *changes sign* there it now reads: Detective Qoo (‘w’) payment
Well, Qoo shouldn’t really have a right to complain.
I mean, resting for a long time IS what he is fond of doing…