Today’s Piraro-only Bizarro (it’s a Sunday; Wayno’s doing other things) —
The gargantuan chalking project is, it seems, debilitating (if you’re puzzled by the odd symbols in the cartoon — Dan Piraro says there are 11 in this strip — see this Page)
— is comprehensible only if you recognize the huge inert creature in it as the legendary prehistoric ape of a century of film, King Kong; and you recognize the fact that cops are drawing an outline around the creature in chalk as a sign that this is a scene of suspicious death. Kong is not just sleeping in the street, he’s dead; the cops are tracing Corpse Kong.
Two questions then occurred to me, and might well have occurred to others:
Q1: What do you call that chalk outline?
Q2: Just how big is / was King Kong?
Both questions have answers. Both answers are unsatisfying, but in different ways.