Edit: i found a clearer image someone took from the copy of the November 15th, 1941 New Yorker where this strip was published originally.
Role Reversal by Charles Addams
Edit: i found a clearer image someone took from the copy of the November 15th, 1941 New Yorker where this strip was published originally.
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merde@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 4d
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what are the reversed roles?
nocturne@slrpnk.net · 6 pts · 4d
The Moose is driving the car and the human, probably a hunter, is tied to the fender.
sqw@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 4d
passenger guy is having some deep thoughts
merde@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 4d
if it was a horse driving the car, it may have worked as we still talk about "horsepower" for cars.
But with a moose, which were—if i'm not mistaken—never used to draft, there is no reversal. Moose never had that role. Engines replaced horses, not moose.
nocturne@slrpnk.net · 6 pts · 4d
Hunters tie their kills to their vehicles for transport, as shown in this strip, including moose. Here the moose is driving the car with a human tied to it, implying the moose reversed the roles, and hunted the human.
merde@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 3d
i see, thanks. i see now :)