A Rondo Boat Way

So there I was, face-to-face with a dilemma. Rondo was sent into an elevator to endure countless paronomastic death traps. Rondo is later seen in the here-and-now, evidently having escaped or otherwise bypassed all of them. How! Did! This! Happen?

And I had a real good idea for it. Real good! Not as good as the Pair O' Ducks turned out to be in and of themselves, but good and holding its own logic and everything is good about the idea. Except it doesn't turn into a comic very well, because it's an idea of text and at some point you just have to admit that and stop trying to draw pictures.

So. You know about the interesting number paradox? That's the one where there aren't any uninteresting numbers because one of them has to be the smallest uninteresting number, which makes it interesting, so there aren't any.

So the pair o' ducks--on a pair o' docks-- tell Rondo that Hey man, this is the least interesting floor out of all of 'em. And the assertion is challenged, and an adventure begins! The presumption being that they'll go through, floor by floor, stepping out of the elevator and saying "Well this can't be an uninteresting floor; it's the lowest-down of all the boring floors!" And then suddenly they're at the top, or the outside, or whatever, and they're back on Tess which is where it all stops. Because you don't want to go to the floor above the surface of Tess. You just don't.

The other presumption is that every so often I'll sprinkle in Rondo Death Elevator flashbacks. This one I'll grant, because it's true. I already have one in my brain and another in the annals of math pun history, and you know I'll get tired of writing plot-comics eventually.

Nobody knows, still, where the line gets drawn between pun and plot in these comics. Sometimes it seems like the plot is chugging along in service of an upcoming pun, and other times it seems like the puns are built directly from the base material of the plot. Other times pun-comics happen apropos of nothing, and times like today there's a comic with an idea but no pun. Spectra! Interesting.

Back to your lives, all of you.