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Today’s Bizarro, with bubbles:

Two visual conventions for cartoon bubbles: one, to indicate bubbles of air under water; and two, to indicate that a cartoon balloon (also known as a bubble) with text in it represents thought rather than speech (see here). So: under water in a cartoon, everything looks like thought.

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