Good Hair Day
First off in the day on April’s Real Blog, I had Howard, Iris, May, Frank and Jim review the April hair pictures to provide comments. That was dull. I couldn’t come up with anything funny.
Then next was the eagle feather bustles and trying to fit them through doors joke. The symbolic language for cursing in the comics did actually originate with the Katzenjammer Kids, which is the oldest sequential art comic. The Yellow Kid was earlier, but he couldn’t talk and he was not sequential. He was more like a one panel political cartoon. Writing would appear on his shirt expressing his thoughts. This was obscure humour, but some of the people who read this stuff are pretty sharp with their comics’ history. As for the jokes about the outfits, I honestly cannot say if the Ojibway people do a spiritual quest to figure out what they are going to wear. Around here, it is a matter of economics. Those outfits aren’t cheap.
Howard got a haircut, and so did April. I know that in the strip, her hair never grows, but it was nice to acknowledge that most ladies visit a salon to get at least a trim.
Then schmoosie as Liz did her masterpiece of Liz and the now-named bloody face guy from Tuesday’s For Better or For Worse strip, Billy Strongblood. Schmoosie said I tapped into her brain for Howard’s response to her masterpiece. Actually Howard hates Mtigwaki with a capital H, and his bizarre protectiveness of Elizabeth is the hallmark of his character starting from the first day I posted as Howard when he said he attacked her in order to reconcile Liz with Anthony, whom he believed to be her grandfather. On the other hand, this is a big step away from the complete naïveté normally associated with Howard, in that he basically says Billy Stronghold is full of B.S. Ooh. I should have used that joke. Oh well, maybe later.
Finally, a new running joke for Howard. The idea is that he has been exposed so much to the Foobiverse characters that he takes on their attributes temporarily like he has been exposed to an infectious disease. I don’t know if anyone else finds it funny, but I love running jokes.
For Friday’s strip, we have lots of material – the comparison of a ceremonial drum’s loudness to a heartbeat which is not loud, why tobacco and fresh cedar are gifts to mother earth, and why those gifts suddenly remind Elly of her own mother and is that a new hairdo on Liz, or just a bad colouring job?
Then next was the eagle feather bustles and trying to fit them through doors joke. The symbolic language for cursing in the comics did actually originate with the Katzenjammer Kids, which is the oldest sequential art comic. The Yellow Kid was earlier, but he couldn’t talk and he was not sequential. He was more like a one panel political cartoon. Writing would appear on his shirt expressing his thoughts. This was obscure humour, but some of the people who read this stuff are pretty sharp with their comics’ history. As for the jokes about the outfits, I honestly cannot say if the Ojibway people do a spiritual quest to figure out what they are going to wear. Around here, it is a matter of economics. Those outfits aren’t cheap.
Howard got a haircut, and so did April. I know that in the strip, her hair never grows, but it was nice to acknowledge that most ladies visit a salon to get at least a trim.
Then schmoosie as Liz did her masterpiece of Liz and the now-named bloody face guy from Tuesday’s For Better or For Worse strip, Billy Strongblood. Schmoosie said I tapped into her brain for Howard’s response to her masterpiece. Actually Howard hates Mtigwaki with a capital H, and his bizarre protectiveness of Elizabeth is the hallmark of his character starting from the first day I posted as Howard when he said he attacked her in order to reconcile Liz with Anthony, whom he believed to be her grandfather. On the other hand, this is a big step away from the complete naïveté normally associated with Howard, in that he basically says Billy Stronghold is full of B.S. Ooh. I should have used that joke. Oh well, maybe later.
Finally, a new running joke for Howard. The idea is that he has been exposed so much to the Foobiverse characters that he takes on their attributes temporarily like he has been exposed to an infectious disease. I don’t know if anyone else finds it funny, but I love running jokes.
For Friday’s strip, we have lots of material – the comparison of a ceremonial drum’s loudness to a heartbeat which is not loud, why tobacco and fresh cedar are gifts to mother earth, and why those gifts suddenly remind Elly of her own mother and is that a new hairdo on Liz, or just a bad colouring job?
posted by howard at 10:55 PM
3 Comments:
I'm enjoying the new running joke about Howard temporarily acquiring other foob characters' attributes. So far, puns and Gerald's Roman-history obsession, I think? :)
aprilp_katje. That's correct. Puns and Romans so far. More to come.
Oh, and I also meant to point out that I enjoyed the mental image of Howard and a panel of unnaturally interested old folks analyzing April's hairdo pictures. It might have felt boring while you were writing it, but I got a kick out of it nonetheless. (And April naturally felt wary of anything that got the oldies' stamp of approval.) :)
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