Time to take Endtown off my “check every day” stack and give things a rest. I know I’ll come back to it eventually, but I think I need more than a month’s rest… we’ve had unremitting downers since Gustine saved Al’s life many years ago, and I can’t take any more without a major rest break.
Truth. The primary value of a razor in a knife fight is intimidation, and the secondary value is causing excruciating pain, but actually killing somebody with one is not easy. They are, more than anything else, deterrents; as Charles Manson once said, “Nobody can relate to being shot, but EVERYBODY understands being cut.”
The handle is indeed backwards. If one wanted to be really pedantic (and let’s face it, what are comic comment sections FOR?), one would also note that Denise’s grip is not entirely correct either.
In a proper razor-fighting grip, the index finger goes above the haft of the blade and the middle finger goes under the back of the blade, so when the fist is clenched the cutting edge is kept under complete control so as to prevent cutting one’s own fingers. (The alternative grip is to hold the handle in the fist with the blade folded back and facing outward, with the hinge at the pinky.)
But then again, a butcher might not necessarily know the technique of using a razor in a knife fight.
But then again again, a butcher would probably not use a razor for butchering; they’re really not designed for that and would dull very quickly.
But then again again again, I’m probably overthinking this.
They operate on the MST3K principle. “If you’re wondering how the lights all work and other science facts / Remind yourself it’s a comic strip I should really just relax / For Endtown Murder Theater 3000…..”
And then tries to convince us that it’s what we deserve.
I voted. Did you?