Put the sun to your right or left and walk straight keeping the sun at the same position or walk straight towards the sun. You will walk in a relatively straight line for at least long enough to get out of the field.
If I may be allowed a serious post, I’m a former farmer and we still have a cornfield (rent the land out). In decades past, you could follow a row out of a cornfield. Today, the stalks are grown so close together for higher yields that there are virtually no “rows” anymore! You could much more easily get lost today!
Walk in one direction and you will hit the edge of the field. In Kansas, some of those rows are a mile or two long and you could end up at the far end of the field. In Maine, the rows are 100’ long until you encounter a rock.
LastRoseofSummer Premium Member over 3 years ago
At last a plan Amelia can get behind!
Dirty Dragon over 3 years ago
You can stomp a small fort-sized patch down, but burning an entire cornfield like you’re Quantrill’s Raiders or something?
That’s some big trouble you’re asking for, kid.
dcandmx over 3 years ago
Popcorn!
some idiot from R'lyeh Premium Member over 3 years ago
It can only improve the visibility!
crookedwolf Premium Member over 3 years ago
But.. the corn is planted in rows…
posse1 Premium Member over 3 years ago
That’s a bit of a sadistic grin there, Amelia.
jschumaker over 3 years ago
THERE’S the Sterling we all know and love.
Mighty Phavahg over 3 years ago
I would think the growing season in Maine would be tight for corn? But the storyline is too funny to care.
Killraven Premium Member over 3 years ago
Should’ve seen this coming, we talking about Sterling here.
rhpii over 3 years ago
Wait until Mom and Dad get the bill for that. It’ll take a boatload or 3 of lobsters to settle up.
Flapjack omelette over 3 years ago
Yeah… he’s got some matches or a lighter… good for him…
Baer321 over 3 years ago
I LOVE this strip!
DM2860 over 3 years ago
Put the sun to your right or left and walk straight keeping the sun at the same position or walk straight towards the sun. You will walk in a relatively straight line for at least long enough to get out of the field.
WCraft Premium Member over 3 years ago
If I may be allowed a serious post, I’m a former farmer and we still have a cornfield (rent the land out). In decades past, you could follow a row out of a cornfield. Today, the stalks are grown so close together for higher yields that there are virtually no “rows” anymore! You could much more easily get lost today!
raybarb44 over 3 years ago
Not the best one up to this point……
scyphi26 over 3 years ago
I mean, it’s miraculous Sterling managed to restrain himself from trying such a plan for even this long.
Wlly Blly over 3 years ago
The corn is planted in rows, isn’t it? Just walk to the end of the row.
ktrabbit33 over 3 years ago
Amelia approves this plan.
CelticKnot33 over 3 years ago
I like the horrified look on Amelia’s face in the third panel, but she recovers nicely.
donwestonmysteries over 3 years ago
Facial expressions in the last panel. Amelia is the only one smiling.
CharlesTarrant over 3 years ago
Land Nav 101. Can you see the sun?
NWdryad over 3 years ago
I bet Amanda wishes Sterling was HER little brother.
FunnyMinnion over 3 years ago
This is by far one of my favorite series in the strip!
PoodleGroomer over 3 years ago
Walk in one direction and you will hit the edge of the field. In Kansas, some of those rows are a mile or two long and you could end up at the far end of the field. In Maine, the rows are 100’ long until you encounter a rock.
Thinkingblade over 3 years ago
I’m not sure whether Amelia is smiling at the idea of Spud lost in a circle in a cornfield or the idea of Sterling setting the corn on fire …