Believe it or not, this was probably the first time I caught onto one of Kaufman's horrible puns before the first panel was even over. I'm afraid I have to count off major points on subtlety for this lack of proper form.
Drexle's right. Had I intended subtlety, I'd have named the kid Penelope, not Penfold. Right there should have been a big red warning beacon.
Plus, old-timers are well-aware that when I write what seems to be an innocuous going-nowhere comic that doesn't quite say things as directly as they might, they're better off running into the night by the middle of panel 2, lest they detonate the stink bomb that follows.
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