The Argyle Sweater by Scott Hilburn for August 29, 2020

A triggy situation

…and the angel of death has no compass-ion.

The room started spinning and he was drawn into the vertex.

I hope this isn’t too protractored.

The attack was acute.

His doctor warned him, but he was too obtuse.

I’m always getting angel and angle spelling confused.

Pythagoras is spinning in his grave right now.

This comic encompasses a lot to think about!

Spelling counts. At least to one.

But a compass only does circles and not angles. He should be holding a protractor unless we are talking the circle of life.

This was after a protractor illness. It soon became acute.

Looks more like a compass to me. His death will be protracted.

And he breathed a scythe of relief and returned to the Circular References in his Excel spread sheet.

Hmmm….he’s either the ‘compass of death’ or he left his protractor in his garage.

Ah, but is that a compleat angle?

Mr. Hartman ignored the cardioid symptoms.

“You teach very well Mr. Hartman”. Mr. Hartman was relieved, it was a complimentary angle.

Well, he is kind of acute.

He was always such a square though.

Can we pro tract this to another day?

No right angles out of this mess !!!

When you study geometry, you learn all the angles..

Maybe a protractor rather than a compass??

Also if it weren’t for geometry, life would be pointless.

Ok, I admit that I had to read it twice before I got it. You can’t speed read his cartoons.

Is the Angle of Death also the Ruler of Life?

Death uses the compass to bisect the heart, man.

Mr. Hartman was the butt of a joke by a arc angel.

Very “Far Side”-like!

Looks like acute angina.

He that lives by the compass dies by the protractor.

Shouldn’t Death be wielding a protractor?

Der schwarze Winkel!

It was a protracted engagement.

bearing weapons of math instruction.

I am the Copy Editor of Death. Fear me when you write “angle” when you mean “angel.” I will find you and end you with my Red Pen of Death!

I bet the Angle of Death lives at Ipley Cross. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYeeTvitvFU

The angle of death is 41.76 degrees. Its sin is .666

Scott’s just trying to be acute.

That is the compass of death, drawn to the circle of death. No angle to it.

The vulture is circling.

Excellent points about having a compass instead of a protractor. More subtle is how he’s obviously not a very good math teacher since he used an x instead of a dot for multiplication, which a mathematician would never do. In fact, even a dot is not needed (and would never be used) for the equation shown.

Oh how many hundreds of misspelled tats…??

Death is in the wrong place. He read his compass incorrectly.

Maybe death just came to him for a pointer.

He might be a member of the notorious Hell’s Angles.

I didn’t see this story arc coming.