The comic strip, “The Adventures of Armlessness”, is about a big scary monster who struggles to do every day practices. In this case Armlessness cannot drink his cranberry juice because he cannot pick up the glass due to his lack of arms. Eventually a friendly straw salesmen saves the day and shows how helpful a straw could be to a monster without arms.
The comic strip’s main point is to show that even big and intimidating monsters, like Armlessness, have problems and need help sometimes. The comic starts and Armlessness is staring blankly at his glass of cranberry juice on the table. He is helpless and his blank expression shows it. Perhaps he has lived a life in such solitude, due to his terrifying nature, and doesn’t often feel so helpless and unable to complete such simple tasks. In the window of the first slide is a goofy looking fellow holding a straw as if it is the answer to all the world’s problems, at least the answer to all of Armlessness’s problems. In the second slide the straw salesmen presents the straw to Armlessness, which at first confuses him as his faces reveals. Finally after the Armlessness gets the hang of the straw, he realizes that this straw salesman has helped him and he is no longer unable to drink his cranberry juice.
This comic strip represents the social maturity of Armlessness. His facial expressions change from sad, to confused, and end with an ear to ear smile. For the first time in Armlessness’s life he was helped by a stranger and has felt like someone cared about his happiness.