Prickly City by Scott Stantis for October 15, 2023

It’s a small world after all.

It’s like it’s small enough to drown in a bathtub!

That’ll happen if you grow as a person.

The incredible shrinking planet.

It doesn’t really go with this strip, but it reminds me of an old Steven Wright line:

“It’s a small world, but I wouldn’t want to have to paint it.”

Cue the “Galaxy Song”.

And their feet didn’t get wet?

i recall several months ago people were wondering if Stantis had turned Prickly City over to someone else as it was getting away from politics. Maybe he just handed it over to AI

“Like old Mother Hubbard

I got nothin’ in the cupboard,

Got no dinner and I got no supper,

Holes in my shoes, I got holes in my socks,

I can’t go to work cos I can’t get a job,

The bills are rising sky high,

It’s such a complicated life,

Gotta stand and face it,

Life is so complicated."

Sir Raymond Davies

Video for Tom Petty’s “Runnin’ Down A Dream” song.

I encountered “It’s a Small World After All” as a young teenager on a ride at the mid-60s NY World’s Fair. Little dolls lined up on cliff-like things throughout the ride, piping in their shrill voices, “It’s a small world, after all…it’s a small, small world” ad infinitum through the ride. Second time around it was like a trip through the Twilight Zone. Never fully recovered..