On Today's Alley Oop - 21 August 2021

Does anybody remember that this is a story about the 1969 moon landing? Somehow it evolved or, more accurately, devolved into a sly commentary about God through the introduction of Frodd, a character who controls the destiny of 7 billion earthlings as if playing a video game. Except there wasn't any commentary, sly or otherwise, just the implication that mankind has no free will because Frodd controls everything. Frodd puts the game on pause implying (once again nothing is ever stated so the reader has to make make things up, just like Joey) that the world stops in its tracks until Frodd finishes his dinner. Does that make sense? Does any of this make sense? It apparently doesn't have to as the strip continues to increase in popularity. But reading today' strip I feel like I missed something. Doc now says they are a billion light-years away from Frodd? Huh? How did that happen? Doc calculated the distance away with something but with what is anybody's guess. And how is that device charged but their time-cubes aren't? They also seem to no longer be invisible but why isn't explained. How did they travel a billion light -years in a second or two? Is whatever Oop does with whatever he is holding supposed to have moved them? Huh? Look Joey and Jonny. Comics is a visual medium but a unique one in which the narrative and art blend together to give the reader a clear understanding of the action that is taking place. What you are both doing fails at the basic nature of comics. Sure, it is a lot easier to write if you never have to explain why something happens or explain the logic behind why a character does something but it doesn't make it more interesting or enjoyable. And sure you can just slop together a bunch of blobby things rather than draw actual backgrounds like a real cartoonist because it's a lot easier. But visually it's about as appealing as the neighbor kid's cartoon drawings. At least that kid might have some potential because Lemon surely doesn't.

Today's blobby mess: 

https://www.gocomics.com/alley-oop/2021/08/21