Today’s Scenes From a Multiverse:
It’s the first two panels, with a play on the name of the supreme leader of North Korea, Kim Jong-un — interpreted as if the un was French for ‘one’. So after Kim Jong Un comes Kim Jong Deux.
Today’s Scenes From a Multiverse:
It’s the first two panels, with a play on the name of the supreme leader of North Korea, Kim Jong-un — interpreted as if the un was French for ‘one’. So after Kim Jong Un comes Kim Jong Deux.
August 7, 2013 at 8:30 am |
I pronounce it Kim Jong Eeeeuuuw. (That actually is a bit closer to the original Korean vowel.)
August 7, 2013 at 4:16 pm |
And in the previous comic he announced that he is “the clone of Kim Jong Un! Good Un!” The wordplay works pretty well in print, but not so well when spoken.
August 8, 2013 at 5:51 am |
From Éamonn McManus on Facebook:
March 14, 2014 at 6:51 am |
[…] (followed by a bunch of tweets). Discussion of the strip in my posting “Bilingual wordplay of the same day, here. […]