I had a more complicated joke for this one, but I have been leaning toward the wordy side lately and I figured I would go back to simple basics.
The only tricky technical desision was about bolding in his last balloon. I considered bolding “unaware” and then “France” and discarded them both, because it would disrupt the subtlety. This joke may not work at all (I can never really tell until I get feedback), but if it does, it’s going to work only by flying in under the reader’s radar.
Have you noticed that you commented on making that decision quite a few times in the archives, and each time decided to leave it unbolded? I, for one, think it was for the better each time, where the only exception was about equal in my (statistically insignificant) opinion between one word bolded and neither bolded.
IMHO, bolding particular words causes the reader to have to think less. it borders on giving away the joke, on which you comment quite often