I think it is simpler than that: Let’s put all the pointy stuff inside our inflatable floating device.

Five years before The Truman Show

And then all the waiters start singing and you just want to bury yourself under a large rock.

Another panel where he put the movie soundtrack in the actual scene.

Looking at the panel, I can hear John Williams’s music

Before multi channel tv and live streamings not all weekly games, if any, were on tv. I remember as a kid on game afternoonsa that you could hear the radio from many apartments all on the same station, the announcer is all excited and then the whole block cheering or crying on a goal or miss. Today you can still hear it when a national or international game is on live tv, but not the weekly league games. I’m feeling old.

Do people still listen to sports on the radio?

Is that some reference to the 1976/8 Breakout video game?

Round or square, some problems are universal.

The trope of a dying man in the desert seeing an oasis mirage, while eagles are waiting to feed on his corpse. Here the eagles are disappointed to see just a mirage of a tasty corpse.

I wonder if they take requests

Think Darrell, think! You’re almost there

idk, Maybe that each person there is working separately instead of collaborating? Just like the Etch A Sketch controls?

The music notes are portrayed as dots on the comics. As a reader you assume that in context they are actually music notes, but the character sees them as actual dots insead.

He’s a good boy, eagerly waiting for his people to return from their errands.

inb4: The first In vitro fertilisation (IVF) occurred in 1978, about two years before this comics. The common name for the process used to be “test tube baby”.

Can I get an explanation?

I didn’t get it till I read the text

Bob had the urge ever since he bit that wolf

It’s a Druze village currently in an Israeli territory. Some residents have Syrian citizenship and some Israeli citizenship.