Today’s strip is funny-ish. Here’s the problem – Paul is Canadian, it’s hockey season, his favourite team is TOAST, he’s in mourning, give him a break. Tomorrow’s strip will be a sure winner – a power play! Go Paul!
Surreal indeed!! But what you have here is a fine example of the average Canadian’s, cartoonists included, well developed sense of the ironic and penchant for understatement.. And that in itself is an understatement, stated in a very polite fashion…. Understand this and you understand the surrealism that seems to be permeating the strip of late ….. and good luck with that:)
Hmm – so, Benjamin is either a master of psychological torture or indeed a prince among dogs (apologies to Hans Christian Andersen and his ‘Princess and the Pea’ saga). Although, the mailman certainly ain’t no pea and …..well…..