Alternatively, as I and others have also said multiple times – the more you analyze Tom Batiuk’s work, the worse it becomes.
With how he writes his stories, we, the audience, are supposed to simultaneously remember everything about the storyline from all years past as well as ignore any logical aspect of the storyline in order to understand the day’s given entry.
If you know nothing of the backstory, today’s entry makes it sound like karmic retribution was duly given to an “evil” hedge fund which “deserved it”. But then, if you know nothing of the backstory, why would you care about these characters or karmic retribution. And if you know something of the backstory, well, that’s how you get a list of questions like Gent here has provided.
“Everyone knows what everyone else is doing … unless they’re setting fire to a set of stairs in the middle of the night in order to protest a makeshift bookstore carrying a book that isn’t approved for sale at a school in a neighboring town. Then, nobody knows. Not the police, not us.”
Why is Pam’s head always drawn as so freakishy oblong and tall when she’s depicted in her youth?
Seriously, compare panel 3 to panel 7 here now. That’s not the same person.