I’m quite a bit older than Stephan Pastis, and I immediately thought, “Tape?” Books on tape haven’t been a thing for what, a couple of decades? I’m sure someone still has a cassette player for their books, but in the USA it can’t be many.
He throws the thing into the room—doesn’t slide it, flings it, the art clearly shows he doesn’t bend down. Then he apparently just leaps over right next to it a fraction of a second. What is this going to accomplish, exactly?
Next strip shows Tracy watching him on the cameras, also trying to figure out what he thinks he’s doing. Ro-Zan is a screwup, honestly he should be used as a distraction by the real villain. Now that would be a story.
I’m guessing you don’t read the treasury books for Pearls? He mentions it himself when he duplicates panels. It just struck me as funny because it’s about as extreme a case as possible.
Am I really the only one who thought, “Rollie can read Arabic?” I mean, seriously, the Mujahedeen did not sign the walls in the Great Satan’s language (or alphabet).
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A disabled old-school NTSC camera. Digital cameras, not so much.