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☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join free"Rooms" is a strikingly surreal short story from 1967, written, drawn, and inked by Donald Reilly, in which a man stranded on a desert island spots an airplane in the distance—only for it to crash-land on the same spot, unchanged in size, defying all logic. The story unfolds with quiet, dreamlike precision, playing with perception and scale in a way that lingers long after the final panel. The cover by Donald Reilly complements the tale’s enigmatic tone with a stark, evocative image.
In "Plane Perspective," a man stranded on a desert island spots an airplane in the distance, only to watch in disbelief as it crash-lands—still the same tiny size as when he first saw it. The absurdity unfolds in just a few panels, with the humor grounded in a perfectly deadpan, typeset lettering that underscores the quiet absurdity of the moment.
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Reprinted in The Best from Playboy #5 (1971), The Playboy Cartoon Album #4 (1971), The Playboy Cartoon Album #6 (1973)
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