Pondering Apartment 3-G

Apartment 3-G, 2013-06-05.

Look at those phones! They are both using flip-phones! In 2013!

And not just that, look how they're holding them. Has Frank Bolle ever seen a mobile phone before? Or any sort of phone? Or a human being holding something in their hand?

Marty doesn't even maintain a consistent grip — she seems to be holding the phone sideways in panel one, then in panel two (three?) she's turned it round and is holding it by the bottom end.

Lu Ann's grip starts out incredibly tenuous — try holding a phone like that without it slipping out of your hand, it's really awkward — but then by the end she manages to get it into a better position. It's not clear how she's actually going to close it like that, but at least she won't drop it.

And what is clicking? Mobile phones don't click when you hang up, and she clearly hasn't shut it yet.

How is Frank Bolle still working? It surely can't be cheaper to keep him on than get some no-name artist who isn't pushing 90. And then Shulock might even stop phoning it in and actually try to make something worthwhile of this comic.