Commentary: This is the 30th strip I’ve re-run here on the new site, and we’re almost to the end of 2004. This is one where I can just picture the reader groaning — Wait, can you picture a sound? Is that another groaner? Anyway…

Personally I like the joke (Geoff’s idea like most of the good ones), and SkitZo and the other characters look pretty decent. The background, on the other hand, is pretty weak. The big, empty grey area is boring and doesn’t even make sense. Maybe it would have worked better if the train track was sitting at a different angle, more horizontal than diagonal, obscuring the background a bit so that I could have the distant stuff in there without having to worry about everything in between. Also, the roller coaster’s word balloon is not big enough for all the dialogue.

Lessons learned.