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The title text implies that Cueball has in fact stolen a real climbing wall, and that Megan wants him to return it.
 
The title text implies that Cueball has in fact stolen a real climbing wall, and that Megan wants him to return it.
 
An alternative reading is that Cueball could be climbing a relatively easy climbing wall, and the joke is it’s so easy that Megan can walk on it, and Cueball is so bad at (or new to) rock climbing that he might perceive it as hard; thus, Megan impresses the viewers more than Cueball by showing how easy the course is.
 
  
 
==Transcript==
 
==Transcript==
:[Cueball seen from his back, as he is ascending a gray climbing wall with 16 white handles in different shapes and sizes. He is standing on one near the bottom left of the panel with his left foot, holding on to a large handle to the left of his head, and one to the right at shoulder height. His right foot is seeking hold on another handle above knee hight of his left leg.]
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:[Cueball is apparently ascending a climbing wall.]
  
:[Cueball is seen in profile still climbing up the gray wall, which is drawn in the right part of the panel, 13 handles protruding. At the top of the panel something is protruding from the wall at more than ninety degree angle to the wall, as the line soon goes off panel at the top, but it seems to be directed at a small white half circle at the top of the panel. The line begins in front of the last of the handles at the top, a small one, and below this there is a larger handle bending up making it easy to hold on to. Cueball is holding on with his hands to two similar "easy" handles.]
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:[We see him again in profile, as well as the edge of another person standing at a ninety degree angle to him with her feet on the wall above him.]
  
:[Cueball climbs a bit further up till his hand reaches the up bending handle in front of the line, and his lower leg and upper knee touches the two handles his hands where on before. Here he has stopped climbing and lifts his head back to look up and sees Megan standing there above him (as she was also doing at the top of the previous panel, but cut off at leg and face). She just stands perpendicular to the wall facing down towards Cueball. The panel has panned up following Cueball so there are only 11 handles now, two more visible "above" Megan, and four from the previous panel are now below this panels frame.]
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:[Cueball stops and looks up at Megan, who is standing on the "vertical" wall, looking at him.]
  
:[Same scene but Cueball is now looking at the wall as Megan speaks.]
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:Megan: Your facebook rock climbing pictures just got a lot less impressive.
:Megan: Your Facebook rock climbing pictures just got a lot less impressive.
 
  
 
{{comic discussion}}
 
{{comic discussion}}
 
 
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[[Category:Comics featuring Megan]]
 
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