That feeling when Mandrake the Magician has included you in mass hypnotism in order to feel like a turnip.
Panel from Lee Falk and Phil Davis’s Mandrake the Magician for the 16th of October, 1949, and reprinted the 30th of January, 2022. Content warning for the whole comic: it’s got a 1949 White Guy depiction of “an African cannibal tribe”. (Mandrake did his mass hypnosis thing so the cannibals would see them as talking vegetables and, uh, find the whole situation kind of weird.) Also, you can see, this is from before they decided Lothar should talk like someone who’s been speaking English for decades.
Yes, I too would like to know what sensations mark this as specifically turnip rather than a yam or a beet or any other root vegetable. Heck, if I were Lothar I’d be tempted to insist that Mandrake had made me a fantastic impersonation of a parsnip, even as I knew he saw turnip, just to screw with Mandrake’s head.
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