Editing 2955: Pole Vault

{{comic
| number    = 2955
| date      = July 5, 2024
| title     = Pole Vault
| image     = pole_vault_2x.png
| imagesize = 740x179px
| noexpand  = true
| titletext = Ugh, and we JUST went through this yesterday with javelin.
}}

==Explanation==
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In the comic, Cueball is making a run as part of a pole vault competition. However, the pole pierced the surface of the Earth, causing it to pop and violently deflate like a balloon. This does not normally happen during a pole vault,{{Citation needed}} but the title text suggests that the same recently happened during a javelin competition. No explanation is provided for how the Earth was patched or reinflated, but apparently the problem was solved in a single day without needing to cancel the event.

The comic ''may'' be inspired by the upcoming {{w|2024 Summer Olympics|Paris Olympics}}, and the geographical location of the burst may indeed be somewhere in the European continent. The view of the ragged and deflating Earth suggests the possible epicentre of the burst having more of a vague relationship with that area than it might to Randall's own location in the US (the other 'logical' definite setting he might use). It precedes any of the actual official competitions (or indeed the official Opening Ceremony) by a number of days, but perhaps this event (and the javeline one) occured at one or other of the attending nation's training camps for the athletics squad, already established in the general region.

==Transcript==
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:[Cueball is holding a pole vaulting stick and seemingly running.]

:[Cueball puts the tip of the pole to the ground, making it bend.]

:[Borderless panel with the word POP! in a blast bubble]

:[Earth, burst seemingly around Europe, flying through space like a deflating balloon. A zigzagging path is left behind. The part of the surface visible shows parts of Asia and Australia.]

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