118: 50 Ways

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I woke up to find that I had scrawled the last line of this sleepily on a sheet of paper on my desk. I shouldn't have listened to the 70's hit marathon on the way home from work the night before.

Description

The comic provides alternate lyrics to the chorus of the 1975 song "50 Ways to leave your lover" (Video)] by American artist Paul Simon. Both the original and alternate lyrics provide a textical hook because the firstname at the end of the line is rhymed with the forelast word of the line (back/Jack, plan/Stan, go/Joe).

Randall, we learn from the image text, heard Simon's song during a 70's hit marathon, went to sleep, and while being sleepy replaced "lover" by "hover" while writing the title of the song. Clearly, this amuzed him so much he decided to create a comic where people learn how to hover, rather then leaving their lover.