The Police Won’t Help You If You’re 19 Feet Tall
January 23, 2009So if you haven’t been reading Curtis recently, he and Barry lied to their parents so they could go to President Obama’s inauguration, and now Barry is lost.
At first, I thought that the question marks coming from the police in the first panel are in response to the 19-foot tall giant running towards them. After reading the third panel (where Curtis has apparently shrunk to his usual size), it’s clear that the police were simply confused about why anyone would be asking them for help. Curtis has explained to the cops that his 8-year-old brother is missing, and they seem unsure about what they could possibly do to help him.
Curtis - 01/23/2009
This strip also brings up another question that I’ve had for quite a while. I’ve probably read Curtis for 15 years or more, and I don’t think they’ve ever mentioned what city they live in. I just always assumed it was New York, but after this past week of strips, it seems like maybe they live in Washington D.C. They attended the inauguration apparently without taking any sort of train or plane, and they planned to be back in time for dinner.
I guess the alternative would be that they live in a place like Little Shop of Horrors’ Skid Row, where it’s an ambiguous sort of large city that can be whatever fits the current plot. This week, it’s DC - next week, St. Louis!
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