So there was a FedEx box truck that’s not in the picture, Jacks caddy is on the right the blanket to the right appears to be covering a female, There’s a black SUV on the left, and 24 hrs before the next part of the story comes out. Too soon to jump to conclusions…
FedEx truck was traveling on the road in the opposite direction. Probably miles away if it was what it appeared to be.
I’m trying to work out the dynamics of the crash. Caddy on the right side of the road, flat terrain, SUV coming straight from behind. How does the Caddy end up on its left side facing back the way it came?
Hard to tell if that’s the ‘Fedex’ truck or another one that got hit from the front and spun into the caddy. If he was hauling human cargo, that’s what could be under the blankets, I’m hoping named characters were just shaken up and scared and the caddy will buff out.
Caddy was parked at an angle, anything hitting it from behind or the front had a better than good chance of spinning it and it would likely flip in the process, probably throwing them out if they weren’t wearing belts, but at zero speed that might be a good thing.
That’s why so many cops are killed while stopped to deal with another vehicle. Most people, and they don’t even have to be drunk, start gawking and unless you’ve been trained, you unconsciously drive where you’re looking and those roof lights, or even the tail lights of a vehicle on the roadside are like magnets, especially to drunks.
The FedEx truck is white. It’s nowhere in this picture. It last appeared two or three days ago, and was past the parked Cadillac on the other side of the road. It could not have hit the Cadillac without reversing direction.
July 24, 2023 at 12:52 am
DruAdams
Based on the location of the blankets, those could be the occupants of the SUV. Since the Caddy appears to be laying on the drivers side the kids should have been thrown the other way. But without seeing the entire accident scene i can only speculate. Also Chris is limited to the size of his canvas so perspective may be squished
The one accident I witnessed first hand, pickup truck in front of me was hit from the right. City traffic speeds. The pickup truck ended up upside down on the cab, facing back toward me, bed extending over the hood of the car in the left turn diagonally across from us. Nobody injured and no visible dent on the truck.
MS-13 thug. There was Kiko and Jack. Two bodies covered.
Thug was a Coyote, now a dead coyote. That’s body #1. Second body, a victim of the MS-13 human trafficking operations.
Texas Highway patrolman is taking jack’s statement while Kiko is getting treatment in the Parambulance.
How do I come to the conclusion of a Human Trafficking victim, you ask? Look at the floorboard of the SUV. Besides the empty bottles, what do you see? Some sort of garment or a backpack, right?
Anyone want to take bets the thug had fun with his underage cargo..?
No expertise to comment on your crash analysis, but a correction on the officer writing in the foreground. He is wearing a green Border Patrol uniform–you can barely make out the label on his right side. Texas Highway Patrol (DPS) has a different-looking badge on left side and a smaller nametag on the right.
July 24, 2023 at 7:49 pm
Bren
Looks like a crumpled snack bag and empty bottles on the floorboard.
July 24, 2023 at 1:19 am
Calvin
I know what you all are doing. You’re offering insightful comments to try to change what Chris has already decided…probably. We have to wait.
We know what we are doing; it is human nature to act as we do for those we care about. We are rather….ah….involved with the characters and story lines that Chris has created.
Two bodies illustrated, so there may be two more in the ROW, and the ambulance crew is just blocking traffic while they finish their donuts. Or the ambulance may be treating one or two survivors. The two covered bodies may have been from the black vehicle. The Caddy may not have been equipped with belts or the belts are crap for rear end impacts and snap rolls. All focused on a likely SIL and/or early pregnancy.
The potential SIL would make a nice match for Mia. Or there is the other sister. In any event, Zed would be too busy to seek out a guilty party. As for the inked cartelista, couldn’t happen to a better guy. Did momacita have a name or family?
You know wearing a seat belt is not cool so no one in the SUV would be wearing one, also Chris did not show him wearing one, so I am going with Involuntary Pre-extraction at Speed for the reason on at least one of those blankets.
Saw an accident one time. A S-10 pickup flipped end over end (I don’t know why), a mini-van was off the road upright, and a pickup was on its side. The S-10 was occupied by two bar dancers in NOLA. I imagine that they crossed the center line and hit the pickup and the mini van was somehow caught in the middle of it all. The driver of the pickup was unhurt, the driver of the mini-van had his upper leg split open, the driver of the S-10 died at the scene as her pickup was upside down with the cab crushed. Her friend was alive and screaming as we worked to tear the vehicle apart. We were shipyard workers and had many tools with us. I can only guess on the cause. I was about a quarter mile back and so the S-10 go airborne.
If I had to guess, employing my past experience as an EMT/FF for almost 15 years, the two bodies shown are likely from the SUV seeing as where they are in relation to the SUV, the position f the SUV, and the position of the Caddie. It looks like the Caddie pivoted when it was struck by the SUV and turned on its side when the rear driver’s side wheel dropped off the pavement.
One other possible scenario – one body from the SUV and one from the Caddy, the one from the Caddy have been ejected when it was struck and spun.
28 years ago last week, on her birthday. It happened in a flash.
July 24, 2023 at 7:35 am
Harry
Hell of a way to start my day, even though we know it’s a fictional comic strip, many of us feel close to the characters and are apprehensive of what the next day brings.
In the bigger picture, criminal illegal aliens do this sort of thing every day somewhere in our country. That’s just one reason, and a sufficient one, to deport ALL OF THEM NOW.
Personally, I have been without words. My sister when she was 21 got in an accident and ended up in prison for vehicular manslaughter. Ga. had just changed the No-Lo law and she was the 1st case under the new law. Anyway, she got 7 and did 3. All this brings back some painful memories.
Traveling Rt 48, from Port Isabel to Brownsville, I witnessed a car stop a mile ahead and back up into another doing 55mph. Wreckage flew everywhere and I looked for blood and helped the elderly couple who had rear-ended the illegal Mexican drunkard. He was hoofing it away from the scene. I ran him down on foot and collared him. I asked him what was he thinking going in reverse on a highway. He said, “Quiero ver las canas,” I want to see the fishing canes (rods being sold on the roadside). I turned him over to DPS. The trooper just shook his head and took the fella into custody. Lucky this time. No dead. But sure as sugar, the perp made bail and went in to do more stupid tricks.
Only real crimes today are having money and legal firearms.
Wife got rear-ended by an incredibly drunk illegal alien one coastal California morning. He rabbited, of course, but his unregistered, uninsured car with the radiator pushed into the water pump only made it a half mile. He was released before my wife got out of the Emergency Room. Never showed for his court hearing. Insurance company wouldn’t pursue the illegal. All the authorities just shrugged.
About 4 – 6 months later, in the same area, a friend’s daughter got popped for a DUI at a checkpoint (outside her University). Just barely blew drunk. The officials came down on her with both feet. His car was impounded, with outrageous storage fees, court costs, fines, a “professional” and eye-watering expensive diversion program, etc etc etc.
I was in a bad mood one time and I was late for lunch with my friends. Then as usual the traffic started slowing down and I thought it was because of rush hour. No, it was too early for that. I was impatient and the traffic was about a mile long. After about twenty minutes, I noticed the ambulance on the side of the highway.
That’s when I noticed the stretcher with the body covered in the white sheet.
It was one of those “God, please forgive me for my petty actions” moment.
(1) The fake FedEx truck passed by in the opposite direction from where the Caddy was pointed. It’s driver was passed out with his foot on the gas.
(2) The Caddy was off on the road shoulder and parked.
(3) The “FedEx” probably swerved one way or the other. If it swerved right it ran off the road and was hors de combat. But if it swerved left it was set up for a head-on collision with the SUV.
My best guess: Whoever drove the SUV had to gun it and swerve to avoid the truck and then OH MY G_D! — and hit (probably side-swiped) the parked Caddy. If that’s the case, Kiko and Jack may be alive and fairly well.
Oh well. Tomorrow…
So not only are the various scripts, scenarios, and synopses from comments irrelevant to what has/will transpire, but so is the usual procrastination of the artiste right up until the “publish” button gets hit.
But, that being the case, “The Kids’re Alright!” because he loves them too. 🙂
July 24, 2023 at 1:03 pm
WeeBrowser
It’s a good thing, Chris, you waited until after the annual drive to put this story out. I don’t know if I could stand a “serious” strip.
Caddy is on its driver’s side and the body bags are between it and the SUV. For them to have been the Caddy occupants would require them being moved to that location which is unlikely. If they were initially moved for treatment due to conditions where they landed it would have been to the nearest better piece of ground, not between the two wrecks. Again, if they were moved as bodies, they wouldn’t have been moved there. The body-bag locations simply are not consistent with them being the Caddy occupants.
The body-bag locations are consistent with bodies from the BACK seat of the SUV flying through that crumpled windshield. The body from behind the steering wheel going through the windshield is unlikely, even impossible if the airbag was functionable. He’s likely still alive to be subject to Jed’s vengeance.
Note also that on the 20th Mia was in the passenger seat and on the 22nd while they were parked, Mia was snuggled up to Jack. He might have been seat-belted, but Mia definitely was not.
Position of the Caddy still beside the road on the grass indicate a flip-up onto its side, not a 1 1/2 rollover. Position of the SUV indicates an impact sufficiently broadside to bend the Caddy’s right front wheel assembly and bounce backwards off that heavy Caddy. The scene of the BACK of the SUV on the 20th is not a view from the Caddy. The SUV is on a road with no shoulders. The Caddy is parked on the outer edge of a road shoulder. The SUV was on an intersecting road and the Caddy was pulled over on the shoulder edge short of the intersection. The SUV struck the Caddy at an angled broadside on the Caddy’s right front fender and door.
On 7/20, Jack’s Caddy was behind a blue state van. Not the cartelista. The screech was his reaction to Kiko’s statement.
7/21 shows the cartelista in the grey SUV (also, it seems, a Caddy) Roofline and color show it’s not the FedEx truck or the black bluestate van.
7/22 shows Jack’s Caddy well off the roadway, with a FedEx truck heading in the opposite direction, already past them and moving away. Weirdly, there doesn’t seem to be much of a shoulder on that side.
7/23 shows a view from beneath the Grey Caddy past the front drive axle, aimed directly at the rear of Jack’s Caddy from 6 o’clock, dead astern. At this point, Kiko is sitting crossways in the front seat and unlikely to be belted in.
7/24 shows Jack’s Caddy on its driver’s side in a position consistent with it having spun 180 and flipped up on its side. We can’t see the windshield, so we cannot tell whether it’s rolled fully. The grey SUV is also on its side, this time the passenger’s side. front end is hidden, but the damage to the roof is consistent with its having gone airborne upon contact with Jack’s Caddy and landing on that corner of the roof.
IF neither Jack nor Kiko were belted in, that initial impact could have thrown them both clear of their vehicle in a couple of different directions.
Out over the driver’s door, in which case, they’d have landed between the vehicles and possibly been smacked by the Caddy as it spun.
Over the seat back, which likely would have broken and turned into a recliner (ask me how I know) and into the back seat. This way, they might have survived long enough for the car to stop spinning and possibly been tossed out at a low speed, or possibly remained inside the car in the back seat.
Jack might have grabbed the wheel and Kiko. In which case, it’s entirely possible he could have held them in place. I’ve personally folded a steering wheel in half in the process of being rear ended at around 40mph, while holding myself in the seat. Although that was in a ’64 Pontiac, not a ’61 Cadillac.
And remember, not everyone who gets tossed out of a stationary car gets killed. Sometimes, you’re better off getting flung clear.
Also, the two body covers we see aren’t necessarily the only ones. The officer is facing away from them and writing something down. He might be looking at other bodies or taking a statement.
ALso, also, the back doors of the ambulance are closed. That argues against anybody being treated inside.
In the end, when you get that much steel bouncing around, it’s a complete crap shoot, and we won’t know until tonight’s cartoon at the earliest.
In my experiance, NO ONE that gets ejected fares well.
(Ex black-cat fire fighter 30+ years ago) i didn’t have the stomach to join back up after retireing from the USN because of stuff like this.
July 24, 2023 at 2:18 pm
DKNolte
A number of years ago while working in the Foreign Service, I came across an accident where a man tried to cross a busy highway in Turkey. Turkish people have little patience and drive dangerously fast. The pedestrian also had little patience and died. What took me by surprise, is the authorities just leave the body where it was hit. In the hot sun with nothing covering it. No one standing nearby, as the traffic drove past it. Stark reminder to slow down and don’t be stupid, but I doubt it had much effect on the Turks.
Wow, I’ve never seen a more responsive blog. I guess everybody here is emotionally invested in this strip and its characters. Never fear, Chris has a good heart and he wouldn’t try to crush the sympathies of his following.
Well, all we can do is wait and see what’s to come. My fingers-crossed hope is that the “about” page still shows ’em on the list of chracters, so maybe (please please please) that suggests they can’t “go away.” But again, we’ll see.
I shouldn’t read this strip after a few glasses of Glenlivet 15-year-old French Oak Reserve Single Malt Whiskey, but I had a few errands to run today. As a former Airborne Infantry Sniper, any damage to Zed and Sam’s family seems personal. I have a firm grasp on ‘fiction’ vs reality, but I have a vivid imagination, and an intense sense of justice. Hoping for the best, realizing that being a warrior – sometimes life sucks.
If it was my child is under one of those sheets, and the drunk wetback survived, I know how to make him scream for at least 6 weeks, before I started the vivisection. The shit Gerard Butler did in Law Abiding Citizen they pulled out of my brain… They used the ones that didn’t cause blood to shoot from their eyes.
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I HATE body-bags on a road side…
Are you sure those are body bags? They look more like air bags to me.
So there was a FedEx box truck that’s not in the picture, Jacks caddy is on the right the blanket to the right appears to be covering a female, There’s a black SUV on the left, and 24 hrs before the next part of the story comes out. Too soon to jump to conclusions…
FedEx truck was traveling on the road in the opposite direction. Probably miles away if it was what it appeared to be.
I’m trying to work out the dynamics of the crash. Caddy on the right side of the road, flat terrain, SUV coming straight from behind. How does the Caddy end up on its left side facing back the way it came?
Hard to tell if that’s the ‘Fedex’ truck or another one that got hit from the front and spun into the caddy. If he was hauling human cargo, that’s what could be under the blankets, I’m hoping named characters were just shaken up and scared and the caddy will buff out.
Caddy was parked at an angle, anything hitting it from behind or the front had a better than good chance of spinning it and it would likely flip in the process, probably throwing them out if they weren’t wearing belts, but at zero speed that might be a good thing.
That’s why so many cops are killed while stopped to deal with another vehicle. Most people, and they don’t even have to be drunk, start gawking and unless you’ve been trained, you unconsciously drive where you’re looking and those roof lights, or even the tail lights of a vehicle on the roadside are like magnets, especially to drunks.
The FedEx truck is white. It’s nowhere in this picture. It last appeared two or three days ago, and was past the parked Cadillac on the other side of the road. It could not have hit the Cadillac without reversing direction.
Based on the location of the blankets, those could be the occupants of the SUV. Since the Caddy appears to be laying on the drivers side the kids should have been thrown the other way. But without seeing the entire accident scene i can only speculate. Also Chris is limited to the size of his canvas so perspective may be squished
The one accident I witnessed first hand, pickup truck in front of me was hit from the right. City traffic speeds. The pickup truck ended up upside down on the cab, facing back toward me, bed extending over the hood of the car in the left turn diagonally across from us. Nobody injured and no visible dent on the truck.
Laws of chaos apply.
Anxiously awaiting “news.”
(it’sjustacartoonit’sjustacartoonit’sjustacartoon…)
I know, but if Zed was real…nations could not stop him in vengeance.
Not just Zed. Kiko has a lot of family, and many of them are people with talents and resources it isn’t healthy to get downrange of.
I know if it was me, it would be an epic of vengeance to rival “A Study in Scarlet”!
Zar Belk!
I know it but…fk meee!
We all saw three people, but there was a fourth.
MS-13 thug. There was Kiko and Jack. Two bodies covered.
Thug was a Coyote, now a dead coyote. That’s body #1. Second body, a victim of the MS-13 human trafficking operations.
Texas Highway patrolman is taking jack’s statement while Kiko is getting treatment in the Parambulance.
How do I come to the conclusion of a Human Trafficking victim, you ask? Look at the floorboard of the SUV. Besides the empty bottles, what do you see? Some sort of garment or a backpack, right?
Anyone want to take bets the thug had fun with his underage cargo..?
No expertise to comment on your crash analysis, but a correction on the officer writing in the foreground. He is wearing a green Border Patrol uniform–you can barely make out the label on his right side. Texas Highway Patrol (DPS) has a different-looking badge on left side and a smaller nametag on the right.
Looks like a crumpled snack bag and empty bottles on the floorboard.
I know what you all are doing. You’re offering insightful comments to try to change what Chris has already decided…probably. We have to wait.
We know what we are doing; it is human nature to act as we do for those we care about. We are rather….ah….involved with the characters and story lines that Chris has created.
Oh ….
Ambiguity!
Two bodies illustrated, so there may be two more in the ROW, and the ambulance crew is just blocking traffic while they finish their donuts. Or the ambulance may be treating one or two survivors. The two covered bodies may have been from the black vehicle. The Caddy may not have been equipped with belts or the belts are crap for rear end impacts and snap rolls. All focused on a likely SIL and/or early pregnancy.
The potential SIL would make a nice match for Mia. Or there is the other sister. In any event, Zed would be too busy to seek out a guilty party. As for the inked cartelista, couldn’t happen to a better guy. Did momacita have a name or family?
Yep. Complexities.
You know wearing a seat belt is not cool so no one in the SUV would be wearing one, also Chris did not show him wearing one, so I am going with Involuntary Pre-extraction at Speed for the reason on at least one of those blankets.
Saw an accident one time. A S-10 pickup flipped end over end (I don’t know why), a mini-van was off the road upright, and a pickup was on its side. The S-10 was occupied by two bar dancers in NOLA. I imagine that they crossed the center line and hit the pickup and the mini van was somehow caught in the middle of it all. The driver of the pickup was unhurt, the driver of the mini-van had his upper leg split open, the driver of the S-10 died at the scene as her pickup was upside down with the cab crushed. Her friend was alive and screaming as we worked to tear the vehicle apart. We were shipyard workers and had many tools with us. I can only guess on the cause. I was about a quarter mile back and so the S-10 go airborne.
Avondale? My deceased aunt used to be head nurse there.
A lot of the above and a lot of “Oh My Gosh” as well.
If I had to guess, employing my past experience as an EMT/FF for almost 15 years, the two bodies shown are likely from the SUV seeing as where they are in relation to the SUV, the position f the SUV, and the position of the Caddie. It looks like the Caddie pivoted when it was struck by the SUV and turned on its side when the rear driver’s side wheel dropped off the pavement.
One other possible scenario – one body from the SUV and one from the Caddy, the one from the Caddy have been ejected when it was struck and spun.
Close to how I interpreted it. I was a volunteer ambulance driver in the middle 60°s, and then … I couldn’t do it again.
SUV was probably full of illegals.
Those bags BETTER be full of illegals
So fed- ex was symbolic? No border? Meh. Haven’t figured this one out but the caddy and occupants were certainly involved. Car on side, duh.
To my eyes — the sheet on the right may cover two bodies.
I hope not.
I DON’T LIKE THIS AT ALL! 🙁
This hits way too close to home. I survived. My wife didn’t.
I hear you, brother.
28 years ago last week, on her birthday. It happened in a flash.
Hell of a way to start my day, even though we know it’s a fictional comic strip, many of us feel close to the characters and are apprehensive of what the next day brings.
In the bigger picture, criminal illegal aliens do this sort of thing every day somewhere in our country. That’s just one reason, and a sufficient one, to deport ALL OF THEM NOW.
I think Jack may have been killed. Kiko may become a widow with a child on the way, one that will never know his father.
Personally, I have been without words. My sister when she was 21 got in an accident and ended up in prison for vehicular manslaughter. Ga. had just changed the No-Lo law and she was the 1st case under the new law. Anyway, she got 7 and did 3. All this brings back some painful memories.
Fuck!
Spin
Traveling Rt 48, from Port Isabel to Brownsville, I witnessed a car stop a mile ahead and back up into another doing 55mph. Wreckage flew everywhere and I looked for blood and helped the elderly couple who had rear-ended the illegal Mexican drunkard. He was hoofing it away from the scene. I ran him down on foot and collared him. I asked him what was he thinking going in reverse on a highway. He said, “Quiero ver las canas,” I want to see the fishing canes (rods being sold on the roadside). I turned him over to DPS. The trooper just shook his head and took the fella into custody. Lucky this time. No dead. But sure as sugar, the perp made bail and went in to do more stupid tricks.
Only real crimes today are having money and legal firearms.
Wife got rear-ended by an incredibly drunk illegal alien one coastal California morning. He rabbited, of course, but his unregistered, uninsured car with the radiator pushed into the water pump only made it a half mile. He was released before my wife got out of the Emergency Room. Never showed for his court hearing. Insurance company wouldn’t pursue the illegal. All the authorities just shrugged.
About 4 – 6 months later, in the same area, a friend’s daughter got popped for a DUI at a checkpoint (outside her University). Just barely blew drunk. The officials came down on her with both feet. His car was impounded, with outrageous storage fees, court costs, fines, a “professional” and eye-watering expensive diversion program, etc etc etc.
We’ve had a dual justice system for decades.
I was in a bad mood one time and I was late for lunch with my friends. Then as usual the traffic started slowing down and I thought it was because of rush hour. No, it was too early for that. I was impatient and the traffic was about a mile long. After about twenty minutes, I noticed the ambulance on the side of the highway.
That’s when I noticed the stretcher with the body covered in the white sheet.
It was one of those “God, please forgive me for my petty actions” moment.
Don’t the Feds drive Escalades? Aren’t the residents of the DD Ranch usually under surveillance? Especially the young healthy female residents?
Still a helluva a way to start the week…
What a shitty way to start the day.
It speaks volumes for the QUALITY of DBD…
Every dot in a small cartoon — being examined, speculated upon, extrapolated, postulated, and a whole fargin bunch of other “lateds”.
Strack salute, Mr. Muir.
(1) The fake FedEx truck passed by in the opposite direction from where the Caddy was pointed. It’s driver was passed out with his foot on the gas.
(2) The Caddy was off on the road shoulder and parked.
(3) The “FedEx” probably swerved one way or the other. If it swerved right it ran off the road and was hors de combat. But if it swerved left it was set up for a head-on collision with the SUV.
My best guess: Whoever drove the SUV had to gun it and swerve to avoid the truck and then OH MY G_D! — and hit (probably side-swiped) the parked Caddy. If that’s the case, Kiko and Jack may be alive and fairly well.
Oh well. Tomorrow…
@Calvin…”I know what you all are doing. You’re offering insightful comments to try to change what Chris has already decided…probably.”
Right on the first part, dead wrong on the second. Dude thinks, draws, and writes on his feet, taking in all around him/them/us…and to that end:
“The Kids’re Alright!”
No,this one was written a week ago.
Well, fluck.
So not only are the various scripts, scenarios, and synopses from comments irrelevant to what has/will transpire, but so is the usual procrastination of the artiste right up until the “publish” button gets hit.
But, that being the case, “The Kids’re Alright!” because he loves them too. 🙂
It’s a good thing, Chris, you waited until after the annual drive to put this story out. I don’t know if I could stand a “serious” strip.
Chris, in spite of myself I’ve gotten to like these characters. Don’t kill them, please. I’ve had too many deaths recently of people I love.
My forensic analysis:
Caddy is on its driver’s side and the body bags are between it and the SUV. For them to have been the Caddy occupants would require them being moved to that location which is unlikely. If they were initially moved for treatment due to conditions where they landed it would have been to the nearest better piece of ground, not between the two wrecks. Again, if they were moved as bodies, they wouldn’t have been moved there. The body-bag locations simply are not consistent with them being the Caddy occupants.
The body-bag locations are consistent with bodies from the BACK seat of the SUV flying through that crumpled windshield. The body from behind the steering wheel going through the windshield is unlikely, even impossible if the airbag was functionable. He’s likely still alive to be subject to Jed’s vengeance.
Note also that on the 20th Mia was in the passenger seat and on the 22nd while they were parked, Mia was snuggled up to Jack. He might have been seat-belted, but Mia definitely was not.
Position of the Caddy still beside the road on the grass indicate a flip-up onto its side, not a 1 1/2 rollover. Position of the SUV indicates an impact sufficiently broadside to bend the Caddy’s right front wheel assembly and bounce backwards off that heavy Caddy. The scene of the BACK of the SUV on the 20th is not a view from the Caddy. The SUV is on a road with no shoulders. The Caddy is parked on the outer edge of a road shoulder. The SUV was on an intersecting road and the Caddy was pulled over on the shoulder edge short of the intersection. The SUV struck the Caddy at an angled broadside on the Caddy’s right front fender and door.
Brad –
It was Kiko in the caddy with Jack, not Mia.
Otherwise, we all have to wait.
On 7/20, Jack’s Caddy was behind a blue state van. Not the cartelista. The screech was his reaction to Kiko’s statement.
7/21 shows the cartelista in the grey SUV (also, it seems, a Caddy) Roofline and color show it’s not the FedEx truck or the black bluestate van.
7/22 shows Jack’s Caddy well off the roadway, with a FedEx truck heading in the opposite direction, already past them and moving away. Weirdly, there doesn’t seem to be much of a shoulder on that side.
7/23 shows a view from beneath the Grey Caddy past the front drive axle, aimed directly at the rear of Jack’s Caddy from 6 o’clock, dead astern. At this point, Kiko is sitting crossways in the front seat and unlikely to be belted in.
7/24 shows Jack’s Caddy on its driver’s side in a position consistent with it having spun 180 and flipped up on its side. We can’t see the windshield, so we cannot tell whether it’s rolled fully. The grey SUV is also on its side, this time the passenger’s side. front end is hidden, but the damage to the roof is consistent with its having gone airborne upon contact with Jack’s Caddy and landing on that corner of the roof.
IF neither Jack nor Kiko were belted in, that initial impact could have thrown them both clear of their vehicle in a couple of different directions.
Out over the driver’s door, in which case, they’d have landed between the vehicles and possibly been smacked by the Caddy as it spun.
Over the seat back, which likely would have broken and turned into a recliner (ask me how I know) and into the back seat. This way, they might have survived long enough for the car to stop spinning and possibly been tossed out at a low speed, or possibly remained inside the car in the back seat.
Jack might have grabbed the wheel and Kiko. In which case, it’s entirely possible he could have held them in place. I’ve personally folded a steering wheel in half in the process of being rear ended at around 40mph, while holding myself in the seat. Although that was in a ’64 Pontiac, not a ’61 Cadillac.
And remember, not everyone who gets tossed out of a stationary car gets killed. Sometimes, you’re better off getting flung clear.
Also, the two body covers we see aren’t necessarily the only ones. The officer is facing away from them and writing something down. He might be looking at other bodies or taking a statement.
ALso, also, the back doors of the ambulance are closed. That argues against anybody being treated inside.
In the end, when you get that much steel bouncing around, it’s a complete crap shoot, and we won’t know until tonight’s cartoon at the earliest.
In my experiance, NO ONE that gets ejected fares well.
(Ex black-cat fire fighter 30+ years ago) i didn’t have the stomach to join back up after retireing from the USN because of stuff like this.
A number of years ago while working in the Foreign Service, I came across an accident where a man tried to cross a busy highway in Turkey. Turkish people have little patience and drive dangerously fast. The pedestrian also had little patience and died. What took me by surprise, is the authorities just leave the body where it was hit. In the hot sun with nothing covering it. No one standing nearby, as the traffic drove past it. Stark reminder to slow down and don’t be stupid, but I doubt it had much effect on the Turks.
Wow, I’ve never seen a more responsive blog. I guess everybody here is emotionally invested in this strip and its characters. Never fear, Chris has a good heart and he wouldn’t try to crush the sympathies of his following.
So you don’t remember Sam’s miscarriage.
Well, all we can do is wait and see what’s to come. My fingers-crossed hope is that the “about” page still shows ’em on the list of chracters, so maybe (please please please) that suggests they can’t “go away.” But again, we’ll see.
Hmmm…Jack’s Dead after heroically saving Kiko, Kiko and Baby survive. Drunk driver dead. Just a guess.
I hope I’m wrong.
So, so wrong.
I shouldn’t read this strip after a few glasses of Glenlivet 15-year-old French Oak Reserve Single Malt Whiskey, but I had a few errands to run today. As a former Airborne Infantry Sniper, any damage to Zed and Sam’s family seems personal. I have a firm grasp on ‘fiction’ vs reality, but I have a vivid imagination, and an intense sense of justice. Hoping for the best, realizing that being a warrior – sometimes life sucks.
If it was my child is under one of those sheets, and the drunk wetback survived, I know how to make him scream for at least 6 weeks, before I started the vivisection. The shit Gerard Butler did in Law Abiding Citizen they pulled out of my brain… They used the ones that didn’t cause blood to shoot from their eyes.