Race Relations Part II
Today, the mighty Liz unloaded her opinion about racial prejudice, which is mainly that it shouldn’t exist. I noted with great pleasure, that this topic really stirred the pot at the various communities who comment on For Better or For Worse. The universal opinion seemed to be that they wished the young Lynn Johnston at the top of her form was handling this subject, instead of the old short timer Lynn Johnston currently at the helm. I cannot help but compare Lynn to Charles Schultz, whose departure from Peanuts due to health problems was well after he should have departed. The Complete Peanuts is being collected in year-by-year collections (which are marvelous, by the way), and it is interesting to see how edgy those early strips were even in the early 1960s, compared to how it ended.
I had great fun with a running joke for the character of Howard, where he from time-to-time and against his will channels one of the For Better or For Worse characters. In this case, he was mocking the ridiculous Liz speech on “race” by replacing “race” with some other word that rhymed with it, and then making up some analogy based on an alternate meaning of the word. qnjones posting as becky and aprilp_katje posting as April joined in on the fun and it was a pretty nice day for snarking. I also have to thank Lynn Johnston for creating a strip so ridiculously easy to snark today.
Tomorrow’s strip: Susan is coming to teach and her first name is an “S” name, like Sharon Edwards-Taylor. Coincidence? I think not.
I had great fun with a running joke for the character of Howard, where he from time-to-time and against his will channels one of the For Better or For Worse characters. In this case, he was mocking the ridiculous Liz speech on “race” by replacing “race” with some other word that rhymed with it, and then making up some analogy based on an alternate meaning of the word. qnjones posting as becky and aprilp_katje posting as April joined in on the fun and it was a pretty nice day for snarking. I also have to thank Lynn Johnston for creating a strip so ridiculously easy to snark today.
Tomorrow’s strip: Susan is coming to teach and her first name is an “S” name, like Sharon Edwards-Taylor. Coincidence? I think not.
posted by howard at 11:52 PM
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Lynn is not very old, but she is exhibiting one characterstic I associate with old people. The plots are no longer subtle. I remember my grandfather in the final days of doing his radio show would repeat jokes, because he said it took more than one time for the audience to get the joke. I think Lynn is like that now.
What we see in the strip and in the letters are plotlines that are telegraphed miles ahead of when we get to see them happen. For example, Gary's thought about Liz leaving, shortly after having a conversation with her about her new boyfriend is extremely premature. Liz and Paul have barely started dating, and Gary is already thinking she is going to leave. Also, the arrival of Susan at the exact same time as the obvious Liz replacement. It's like watching a movie preview that gives away the entire plot of the movie, before you have a chance to see the movie.
If she is, she is starting pretty early. She's only in her 50s.
My dad is 66 and he is obsessed with self-preservation, I think because his dad died when he was 69. As a result, he is constantly trying to keep up with current events and the latest technical or political fad. He is determined to prevent that mental decline. He went to a high school reunion last year and got really depressed by how sick-looking all his former classmates were.
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