Re: Curtis, current story


Robin wrote:
bllbickel wrote:
Robin wrote:
Is it just me, or would a more likely scenario have included
questions/statements like these?

"Where did you get your hands on this?"
"I wonder if this is stolen goods."
"This is all good and well, but since you didn't do your report (and
didn't know what this document was till we told you), you get an F for
the project."

Really, I can't imagine it would look very good to be holding a
valuable historic document, saying "I don't know what it is! I don't
know where it came from! Some guy gave it to me! Honest! And, um, no, I
don't have my homework."

Of course, if given document has never been reported stolen, where's
the problem?

When it comes to archival materials and other things kept in libraries
or similar collections, often something isn't known to have been stolen
till someone finds it and checks to see whether it belongs somewhere.

But my point was that no one even raised the question of whether the
item was lost or stolen, or who its rightful owner might be, which
would seem to me to be the first logical thing to come up if a kid
shows up at school with a valuable item given to him by a stranger on
the street.

Here, though, Curtis went straight from his desk to the principal's
office to find himself showered with praise, and no one even asked him
where he got the thing.

We don't know this: A LOT happened "off camera" between one day's strip
and the next, so we can just as easily assume that this included all
the appropriate questions being asked and checking being done.

Bill Bickel
http://www.comicsidontunderstand.com
http://mysterybooks.allinfoabout.com

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