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* WhatDidIDoLastNight: Jimmy trying to figure how the heck he managed to get stuck in a cement-covered phone booth.


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* WhatDidIDoLastNight: Jimmy trying to figure how the heck he managed to get stuck in a cement-covered phone booth.
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* TitleDrop: The phone booth Jimmy wakes up in has a sign saying "Fleep".

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* ArtisticLicenseLinguistics: The Russian language is not only broken, but also contains some letters that that don't belong to the modern Russian alphabet.



* {{MacGyvering}}: It's awe-inspiring what Jimmy accomplishes using the contents of a phone booth. [[spoiler:He is a terrorist after all.]]

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* {{MacGyvering}}: MacGyvering: It's awe-inspiring what Jimmy accomplishes using the contents of a phone booth. [[spoiler:He is a terrorist after all.]]



** Averted with Russian language, which is not only broken, but also contains some letters that that don't belong to the modern Russian alphabet.

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->''Okay, think Jimmy. There must be a rational explanation for all this. […] Your brain is your most powerful resource right now. You must use it to figure out what just happened and then put together an escape plan.''
-->-- '''Jimmy''''s thoughts



* ByTheLightsOfTheirEyes: How Jimmy's situation is show at first, with his eyes the only thing visible in the pitch blackness.

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* ByTheLightsOfTheirEyes: How Jimmy's situation is show shown at first, with his eyes the only thing visible in the pitch blackness.



* DutchAngle: Indicates a devastating personal revelation.

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* DutchAngle: Indicates The panel perspective becomes slanted to indicate a devastating personal revelation.



* TomatoInTheMirror: After carefully working through what he's deduced and realizing that he's in a collasped embassy, mostly likely the result of a terrorist attack and a bomb, Jimmy realizes that it wasn't bad luck or coincidental timing: [[spoiler:it was his phone call that triggered the bomb in the American embassy. ''He'' was the terrorist.]]

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* TomatoInTheMirror: After carefully working through what he's deduced and realizing that he's in a collasped collapsed embassy, mostly likely the result of a terrorist attack and a bomb, Jimmy realizes that it wasn't bad luck or coincidental timing: [[spoiler:it was his phone call that triggered the bomb in the American embassy. ''He'' was the terrorist.]]



* YouWakeUpInARoom: I mean, a phone booth. A phone box encased in concrete.

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* YouWakeUpInARoom: I mean, Jimmy wakes up in a phone booth. A phone box encased in concrete.
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* ContinuityLockout: It's no problem following the story when reading it all in one sitting, but the original print run was basically an object lesson in why newspaper comic strips are no longer a good medium for detailed, continuity-heavy narratives.

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''[[http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/fleep/ Fleep]]'' is the story of Jimmy Yee, who enters a PhoneBooth and blacks out. He wakes up to discover that the booth is encased in concrete.

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''[[http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/fleep/ Fleep]]'' is the story of Jimmy Yee, who enters a PhoneBooth phone booth and blacks out. He wakes up to discover that the booth is encased in concrete.



* PhoneBooth: Jimmy initially wants to use one to called Jenny and tell her he's running late, but ends up trapped inside it.
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* PuzzleThriller: Jimmy employs various Series/MacGyver techniques to stay alive while he slowly reconstructs what happened.

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* PuzzleThriller: Jimmy employs various Series/MacGyver Series/{{MacGyver|1985}} techniques to stay alive while he slowly reconstructs what happened.
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This comic strip by JasonShiga was originally published in the newspaper ''Asian Week'', but was cancelled two-thirds into its run. Shiga has since published the complete story on his website: it can be read [[http://www.shigabooks.com/fleep.php here.]]

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This comic strip by JasonShiga Creator/JasonShiga was originally published in the newspaper ''Asian Week'', but was cancelled two-thirds into its run. Shiga has since published the complete story on his website: it can be read [[http://www.shigabooks.com/fleep.php here.]]

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