
Back in the early 1990s, I was in a small car accident, and the passenger-side door was damaged just like this, and just like this, I had a friend — the cartoonist Justin Green, best known for Binky Brown, and whose comics I edited at Tower Records’ Pulse! magazine — paint a comic-book sound effect on the side, complete with the little lines showing the action and/or sound of the impact. I wish I had a photo of my long-ago car door. This one here isn’t my car. I stumbled on this modern-day version in my neighborhood over the weekend.