Elly to the Rescue
Ever since the May 12 strip was accidentally leaked, I wondered how Lynn was going to lead into it. Oddly enough, we do not see a desperate Mike or Deanna begging Elly to come and help out with Robin. She’s just there and recognized first by Lovey. Who knows if she was invited, or used her special grandma senses to know she should come. She’s just there. I looked over the archive strips and I think this is first time Elly and Lovey have met. Considering all the mother substitutes the Patterson children have had over the years, it has occurred to me now that Elly has met precious few of them. It’s as if the kids are in their own world which Elly never breaches. In fact, the last time Elly (in the strip) went to Mike and Dee’s place was shortly after Robin was born 1 year and 7 months ago. This just reinforces this element of separation.
Lovey’s mention of home remedies was so odd, given Deanna’s occupation. The lack of anyone mentioning a doctor is conspicuous. Over on the FOOBiverse’s Journal, there seemed to be a clearly divided line between those who thought Mike and Dee were incompetent parents for allowing Lovey to be so involved with Robin and those who believed they were being smart for bringing in someone who knew what they were doing. Of course, given the home remedies, Lovey’s competence could be questionable. I suppose this is one reason why Elly could be there, but more likely, she is there to start up the story impetus towards getting Mike and Dee into the family estate in Milborough.
My characters snarked up Elly’s visit and Lovey’s remedies as well they could, particularly the one about intoxicating the parents. Then it was sort of dead in the water again until qnjones popped up to drive a story arc with 5-Evah playing with her at the prom. I asked the_berserker about Canadian school proms some time ago, and she mentioned that if they occurred, they only occurred at the end of the year, like the grade 8 grad dance. The style of having several school dances during the course of the year was not practiced in Canada, for some reason. In any case, I as Jeremy Jones am playing it as an end-of-the year prom, since it is actually pretty close to the end of the year, and if it occurs before the actual end of the school year in Toronto, who cares?
Tomorrow’s strip: Elly compliments Lovey. Lovey takes the conversation into Kelpfroth bashing. They only have Saturday left to draw the smoking cigar conclusions, so my guess is that this story will drag into next week. Worst case scenario is that it stops on Saturday with Elly sniffing smoke and then nothing is addressed for another 3 months or so. I see Howard getting another call from his aunt Winnie in April’s Real Blog tomorrow.
Lovey’s mention of home remedies was so odd, given Deanna’s occupation. The lack of anyone mentioning a doctor is conspicuous. Over on the FOOBiverse’s Journal, there seemed to be a clearly divided line between those who thought Mike and Dee were incompetent parents for allowing Lovey to be so involved with Robin and those who believed they were being smart for bringing in someone who knew what they were doing. Of course, given the home remedies, Lovey’s competence could be questionable. I suppose this is one reason why Elly could be there, but more likely, she is there to start up the story impetus towards getting Mike and Dee into the family estate in Milborough.
My characters snarked up Elly’s visit and Lovey’s remedies as well they could, particularly the one about intoxicating the parents. Then it was sort of dead in the water again until qnjones popped up to drive a story arc with 5-Evah playing with her at the prom. I asked the_berserker about Canadian school proms some time ago, and she mentioned that if they occurred, they only occurred at the end of the year, like the grade 8 grad dance. The style of having several school dances during the course of the year was not practiced in Canada, for some reason. In any case, I as Jeremy Jones am playing it as an end-of-the year prom, since it is actually pretty close to the end of the year, and if it occurs before the actual end of the school year in Toronto, who cares?
Tomorrow’s strip: Elly compliments Lovey. Lovey takes the conversation into Kelpfroth bashing. They only have Saturday left to draw the smoking cigar conclusions, so my guess is that this story will drag into next week. Worst case scenario is that it stops on Saturday with Elly sniffing smoke and then nothing is addressed for another 3 months or so. I see Howard getting another call from his aunt Winnie in April’s Real Blog tomorrow.
posted by howard at 8:38 PM
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In my high school years, there were school dances that occurred all through the year, in addition to the prom. But these days, there may be security concerns that did not exist when I went to high school.
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