Eh. He should be OK.

Belive it or not, as long as you keep your head you can swim in quicksand.

Still a cute pic that shows chivalry is not (yet) dead.

Apparently, the models in those quicksand videos have to work like hell to go under ... and they sometimes employ a board just under the surface to push up against. Most actual quicksand is only shallow anyway. Deep mud under three or four feet of water is much more dangerous, as is a deep bog.

Heh, a story I read someplace (a 19th century book?) - a traveler walking along a country road comes to a marshy place, and asks a nearby local boy if it had a hard bottom. Informed that it does, he walks into the bog and quickly finds himself sinking up to his waist and then some. Calling back to the boy, the traveler says, "I thought you said it has a hard bottom!", to which the boy replied, "It does, but you/re not halfway there yet."

Looking again at this picture, it occurs to me that a conversation not unlike the one in my previous post might well be taking place here.

You know, I had a thought (not that you need any more suggestions than you probably get on a daily basis) but maybe you should consider a practical instruction on how to free one's self from quicksand.

The Worst Case Scenario Survival Handbook has provided good information on how to do just this but it might be interesting to see some sequential art in your style on the subject. After all you're notorious for getting your characters into such a mess, it's only appropriate that you give real-world info on how to get out.

Anyways it's just a thought. Feel free to ignore it if you see fit.

There's not much to it. In fact, if you wanted to sink out of sight in quicksand, you'd have to work damn hard to do it, since mud is heavier than you are, and buoyant. The only hope would be to find mud so thick it was't really fluid ... then you could just bury yourself in it much as you would with sand. Also, most quicksand isn't deep -- it may only be inches, in fact. The trick is that it can be hard to get out, so that if you are up to your knees in it, you may be stuck there until someone comes to help ... or you calm down and work your way out sensibly. I suppose that would be enough material for a few panels, should anyone care to undertake it.

Looks like she's getting the best side of the deal here, a heck of a show!

Those french skunks and their promises...