Heart of the City by Steenz for September 25, 2023

Ominous thunderstorm outside! What does this fare for the fund-raiser? Hurricane in Phili?

All fun and games until a storm comes.

Is that the sound of the bleachers about to collapse?

Today it’s raining in Philadelphia in both the comic and in real life. Steenz is an oracle!

Ha! Nice try, god! The game takes place inside, idiot!

Lights will probably go out.

cue the dark ambient music with discordant overtones which, although broadly tonal, is inflected with chromatic and polytonal passages representing the archetypal example of a florid, melodramatic style without being interpreted as an overly heavy-handed metaphor within the context of the thematic material a bit on the frenetic and frantic side

Ruh roh! (◔◡◔)

If that thunderstorm isn’t another sign that this playful rivalry will eventually degenerate into something far more dangerous then I don’t know what it is.

Wait, don’t tell me, let me guess: power failure, “tournament” canceled, but since it’s for charity, there will be no refunds and nobody will mind – well, either that, or there will be a riot, they’ll refund all of the money anyway, and I guess the school didn’t need a new lunch room that badly after all