I'll give you a minute to peruse today's strip and figure out what's wrong with it.
(Jeopardy music playing in your head)
OK, times up.
When John does strips based on board games that actually exist, I try hard to color them so they look as much like the real thing as possible.
And I did.
This time the mistake is not in the coloring but in the drawing. Those of you who have played Monopoly will be well aware that Edison is trying to move his pieces the wrong way.
Now it could very well be that it was a well thought out and planned decision. After all, if you reverse the direction, the player moving his piece has to be on the left of the frame and the player blocking him has to be on the right. But the way the joke is written the word balloons and the pacing dictate the placement of the characters and, hence the pieces moving in the wrong direction.
Or it could be that we don't know how to play Monopoly.
You be the judge.
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