Since it happened out of frame, I think what transpired is that Joey’s Mom stood by the edge of the roof with a rock tied to the end of a string which she used to smack the space on the wall near the front door until she hit the doorbell button with it. Hearing the doorbell ring, she yanked up on the string to retrieve the rock so she could toss it into the bushes or just fling it out of the way, and as the rock came flying up, it nearly hit her.
She dodged the flying rock but lost her balance, falling to the ground in front of the house a second later, as the doorbell still resonated, giving the illusion that she fell THEN rang the doorbell, which is obviously impossible.
Her idea HAD BEEN to JUMP off the roof and parachute down, but since the roof is only about a dozen or so feet in height, it honestly would have made no difference, except that she’d now be laying face-down, contorted, with her limbs splayed randomly about her, but partially covered in an incompletely-deployed parachute. She’d look exactly as silly, and still be in a body cast by the end of the comic. The parachute, which she should have put on BEFORE trying to hit the doorbell with the rock but didn’t, is still up on the roof.
How she ring the doorbell tho?
Since it happened out of frame, I think what transpired is that Joey’s Mom stood by the edge of the roof with a rock tied to the end of a string which she used to smack the space on the wall near the front door until she hit the doorbell button with it. Hearing the doorbell ring, she yanked up on the string to retrieve the rock so she could toss it into the bushes or just fling it out of the way, and as the rock came flying up, it nearly hit her.
She dodged the flying rock but lost her balance, falling to the ground in front of the house a second later, as the doorbell still resonated, giving the illusion that she fell THEN rang the doorbell, which is obviously impossible.
Her idea HAD BEEN to JUMP off the roof and parachute down, but since the roof is only about a dozen or so feet in height, it honestly would have made no difference, except that she’d now be laying face-down, contorted, with her limbs splayed randomly about her, but partially covered in an incompletely-deployed parachute. She’d look exactly as silly, and still be in a body cast by the end of the comic. The parachute, which she should have put on BEFORE trying to hit the doorbell with the rock but didn’t, is still up on the roof.
Kevin rang it for her. Fun fact: Kevin’s secretly in every comic.
No comic this Thursday due to being out of town. Normal schedule will resume next week 🙂