False Knees by Joshua Barkman for July 29, 2019

Nice artwork.

I can smell the river…

Wow! The first two panels especially.

Yes, you’re gonna tie that fishing line around a big rock and then push it over the deep underwater cliff and the fisherman can swim with the fishes.

To do that, you need to be a small fish in a big pond. Check and check.

Lovely.

High hopes.

Outstanding craftsmanship

The world will change you first.

It’s always the small fry that seeks change. The big fishes like things the way they are.

The Snail Darter has blocked many a mighty projects.

⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

Delusions of grandeur on such a little fish, who knew?

It’s neat how Mr Barkman makes it possible to identify the specific rocks in the first three panels. You have to work backwards, so to say, and (naturally enough) the minnow is highly quite kind of very inconspicuous in the second panel. Nifty! And great art-work as always.

Now, if this was the Perry Bible Fellowship comic, some big bruiser of a beaver would come along and ruin this sweet moment.

Please change it back to that first panel. Undo the damage we have done,

You go for it, little fishie, and don’t let anyone tell you you can’t do it! :)