heres an analysis of this comic strip i found on the wiki
If anyone needs a more detailed explanation, basically this strip was released on the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks (September 11, 2011), which just so happened to be on a Sunday. A few comic strip creators (including Lincoln Peirce) decided that in honor of the people who died in those attacks they would make the comic strip on that day related to it. In this strip, Nate, Francis, and Teddy are building something on the beach when Randy comes over and starts making fun of them. Then he threatens to come back and knock it over. Nate replies by saying that if he (Randy) comes back, he won't knock it over. When Randy comes back, Nate, Francis, and Teddy have built a sand replica of the Twin Towers, which got destroyed/toppled over by the two planes that crashed into them (Both planes were hijacked by terrorists). As some people know: the second plane that crashed into the towers was caught on live television news, and every single person on both those planes died, as well as some of the people who were inside the building at that time. If you add up the deaths of two the passengers of two other planes that were hijacked (one of them crashed into the Pentagon, the other was heading towards the Capitol building when the brave passengers revolted and tried to regain control of the plane, resulting in the plane crashing in a ditch in Pennsylvania (I think)) then the death count comes out to almost 3,000, the biggest terrorist attack in history. Randy, being a United States citizen, would not be as barbaric as to knock over a monument of the terrible attacks. The Sunday comic strip panel shows two pencils, also a tribute to the Twin Towers.
Thank you for reading this short history lesson.
