With Abandon

I’d be inclined to bet that most of you who didn’t recognize the phrase and took a guess guessed correctly: “Abandon all hope, ye who enter here”

Dante’s Infernal Laptop

For some reason, Sunday’s Bizarro strip

reminded me of this old Home on the Strange strip:

Backtracking a bit… What exactly is going on in the first panel of the Bizarro strip? The statue hitting himself in the head with the hammer caused the sculptor to do the same??

And speaking of Home on the Strange…

Are we supposed to assume that her reference is more esoteric than his?