Sorry I haven't been with online Dilbert that long (previously only on newspaper strips, i often missed some).
But why is everyone other than PHB also have pointy hair?
Unfortunately, I have low expectations of the company hired to do the colouring (Scott doesn't do it himself). In my head the pool is red. Quite frankly, I wish the strips were still in black and white, except maybe the Sunday strips.
That's a fair point, though not one I had noticed. They look more like they're being boiled in water, which would have made sense if they had been kidnapped by cannibals. If this is supposed to be Hell (as per the storyline) then we would expect it to be red, assuming it is a "lake of fire and sulphur" (as given in Revelation 20:10). Sulphur forms a blood-red liquid when it melts.
Then again, it only does so at 115 degrees Celsius, and the guys look surprisingly comfortable if they're sitting in a liquid that hot. Perhaps they are wearing asbestos underwear. :-p
My only objection (if you want to call it that) is that they're all in a pit of blue substance in the last frame, and it needs to be a more "dangerous" color, like red or pea soup green. I just don't get a sense that the pointy-haired group are in any danger, other than the pitchfork that's entering the picture.