Comics I Don’t Understand

Lost and Found

Cidu Bill on Jan 31st 2008

Okay, I understand this is Zoe getting lost in the mall; but who’s that phantom kid on the left, NotMe?

Filed in Baby Blues, Bill Bickel, comic strips, comics, humor, malls | 18 responses so far

18 Responses to “Lost and Found”

SatchelFan Jan 31st 2008 at 11:07 am 1

Not a phantom — EVERYTHING that isn’t Mom, Zoe, and Hammy is greyed out. So it’s just another kid.
Glenn Jan 31st 2008 at 11:33 am 2

I think it`s a shop dummy - he appears to have a price tag attached to his shirt.
That's Me Jan 31st 2008 at 11:40 am 3

I think it’s a manikin. Two things point towards this: all of the environmental elements are grayed out, and the kid seems frozen in an “action” pose like manikins get posed in. It also looks like there may be a tag on the back of the kid’s shirt.
Pinny Jan 31st 2008 at 11:54 am 4

Also, if I remember correctly, Not Me looked like a ghost, i.e., a sheet with eyes (maybe hands underneath, too)
Rick Jan 31st 2008 at 12:08 pm 5

It’s either a manikin or one of the many undead children that roam the mall. (I base this on the kid’s colorless pallor).
DPWally Jan 31st 2008 at 02:10 pm 6

Must be a kid, no one would put that haircut on a manikin. Possibly a lost kid from the adjacent comic.
dd Jan 31st 2008 at 02:55 pm 7

I had no idea that manikin was another way to spell mannequin until today! I thought all you people were crazy until I googled it I think that’s enough learning for me for today.
pepperjackcandy Jan 31st 2008 at 03:12 pm 8

It’s obviously the ghost of the mother’s eldest child, whom she lost in that very store and who never returned.

I leave whether the ghost is real or a figment of the mom’s tortured imagination as an exercise for the reader.
Nicole Jan 31st 2008 at 03:29 pm 9

Clearly a ghost. Notice that the spectral child’s head is not sitting squarely on his shoulders. Something you don’t see every day. As others have pointed out, the haircut is awful - looks more like something you would see in the middle ages rather than a modern day mall.

The real question is what is the ghost of a child from the middle ages doing in a mall.
Lola Jan 31st 2008 at 03:32 pm 10

By golly, that’s not a child, ghost or otherwise. It’s a dwarf monk.
Djagir Jan 31st 2008 at 04:39 pm 11

Since this is filed under “One Big Happy,” maybe it’s the ghost of Ruthie after the horrible mishap with the razor.
Brian Leahy Jan 31st 2008 at 08:08 pm 12

I say: colorization oversight.
Kevin Andresen Feb 1st 2008 at 12:25 am 13

I can see the category mistake happening: “Baby” is to “Big” as “Blues” are to “Happy”; opposites, no? Just a loose neuron somewhere.

I also thought the boy was a mannequin for the short time I could ignore the hair.
pepperjackcandy Feb 1st 2008 at 12:54 am 14

The issues about that little figure are made worse because my brain fills in the rest of the line of the floor behind/under his torso, which makes him look translucent.
arik1969 Feb 1st 2008 at 01:10 am 15

Maybe it’s just me, but I think the kid looks like Charlie Brown if he’d had the top of his head whacked off like a cocoanut, with a machete, then had it stitched back on.
Rain Feb 1st 2008 at 05:23 am 16

okay, comments here are totally my LOL for the month!!!
Schist Happens Feb 1st 2008 at 12:33 pm 17

The original “Not Me” reference already made me LOL! Awesome!
bAT L. Feb 2nd 2008 at 03:50 am 18

I see mannequins with hair like that a lot. Well … not specifically like that, but in that form. Hair on mannequins isn’t usually hair, synthetic or otherwise, but just part of the plastic mold airsprayed afterward to create the color effect of hair without taking away from the focus on the clothes, which should be the main focal point for clothes shoppers. I can see where the confusion comes in, as the mannequin is placed in the foreground, yet has the color of the background. It also appears to be in the running position and, since we can’t see movement that well, it seems to be part of the action with everyone else.

My very first thought was, indeed, the Not Me thought. Especially since the family is leaving a dotted line wherever they go!