jeff salty at 8:48AM, July 3, 2021

I lost my WWII vintage P38 (probably my father's) but still have one of the larger later ones (that can't be used as a screwdriver the way the original ones could) on my keychain. It's still a very useful and durable tool.

plymayer at 5:14PM, July 1, 2021

Had a bunch of those can openers. Can not find any of them now.

jeff salty at 6:36AM, July 1, 2021

This experiment with letting pictures tell the story was intentionally a bit sketchy and ambiguous. The final panel was originally scripted to show Krark holding a P-38 military can opener (used with the old C-rations, from before MREs), but I decided (1) too many people would not get the joke and (2) the P-38 was too small an item--so it was kind of like writing "the End" on a fly's wing in the background.