On today's Alley Oop - 13 April 2021

One of the new tropes under the new management is that there are a gazillon universes just waiting to be discovered by the intrepid trio. Up until recently, they seemed to have no idea about what was in any of them as witnessed by their trial for time-crimes when Wongmug randomly popped in and out of them. No need for Joey to try and create some background for these universes, maybe even a story. Instead they were mere props for a daily guffaw because they were full of puppies or crystals or some other nonsense. Today our genius physicist finds out about a mysterious (there's that word again) universe. Maybe he subscribes to Unlimited Universes or some other web service to find out about these hidden universes. But, like so many Sayers' plot themes, once you think about them, they don't make sense. If there is an infinite number of universes, there is no way that all the people on earth, let alone these three goofballs. And rather than just go off to explore it, why wouldn't they observe it before they got into trouble? Observation - isn't that a big part of what scientists do? Everywhere, it seems, except the Joeyverse.

And the big yuck today (observe for yourself at https://www.gocomics.com/alley-oop/2021/04/13) is that this universe is password-protected. Uh, by who? Of course, the password is what we expected as soon as we heard there was a password. Hard to get a laugh when anybody could have written that gag.