Ya’know, there’s some interesting problems in the design of a noose for a cartoon character. It has to be big enough to go over the MASSIVE head, yet tight enough for the tiny neck… it’s a really sticky wicket.
That said, I looked at this finished strip and realized that, without Bernard’s mental comment in the last panel that this strip is INSANELY morbid and dark looking. Seriously. I follow Dandy about to hang himself with Bernard shooting himself in the head. Initially, there was no line about water guns at all, but I really wanted to cement that Bernard was NOT committing some kind of horrible, boredom induced suicide.
