Guns and Cells
Today continued the crazy Eva analogy series. Bad for poor Eva, who will have a difficult time being taken seriously as a character after this week. The plus side is that Eva has now made so many appearances; she has finally been given a last name of Abuya by the For Better or For Worse website. This indicates that her father or her father’s family probably immigrated to Canada from Kenya or Nigeria, since Abuya is a female name originating in Kenya or Nigeria, because the capital city has that name. As for the source of Eva’s lily white hair, I don’t know unless Lynn Johnston saw the X-Men movies and mistakenly thought Storm’s hair looked cool. In any case, Eva’s inability to complete an analogy without going on some kind of tangent continued today, and for those of us who were reading something into it, it looks like Eva has a problem with men.
I would like to say that tomorrow’s strip improves on this, but sadly it does not. The strip continues the cowboy analogy, while taunting men and their desire to show off cars. It is quite odd to see Gerald and Duncan bonding with Dr. Patterson like this. The last time they were seen together was during the Battle of the Bands sequence when Dr. Patterson poo-pooed the 4-Evah girls baring the midriffs. I have to feel sorry for Dr. Patterson, that he doesn’t have any friends his age and he feels the need to show off his new car to people that are not his own age or that he even really knows.
As for today on April’s Real Blog, Constable Paul Wright focused on gun law, as you would expect anytime you hear some teenager talking about guns. The rest of the April’s Real Blog posters concentrated on the “Eva is crazy” theme and had her react to men with cell phones. qnjones really snarked the strip hard with her Gerald and Becky posts on the subject.
I would like to say that tomorrow’s strip improves on this, but sadly it does not. The strip continues the cowboy analogy, while taunting men and their desire to show off cars. It is quite odd to see Gerald and Duncan bonding with Dr. Patterson like this. The last time they were seen together was during the Battle of the Bands sequence when Dr. Patterson poo-pooed the 4-Evah girls baring the midriffs. I have to feel sorry for Dr. Patterson, that he doesn’t have any friends his age and he feels the need to show off his new car to people that are not his own age or that he even really knows.
As for today on April’s Real Blog, Constable Paul Wright focused on gun law, as you would expect anytime you hear some teenager talking about guns. The rest of the April’s Real Blog posters concentrated on the “Eva is crazy” theme and had her react to men with cell phones. qnjones really snarked the strip hard with her Gerald and Becky posts on the subject.
posted by howard at 10:03 PM
3 Comments:
The Lynnions really want to push the idea that John's stationwagon is a cool stationwagon. Girl, please! ;)
This puzzling. I don't understand why an entire week is being used that is not developing anything with the characters or story. It is just like Elly's vacuum arc strips, and with so many stories that could be developed or tied up within the next year it is disappointing to see this "throw away" each day in the paper. What a challenging week for you--blogging and hosting at FOOB!
aprilp_katje,
The stationwagon as a cool car is being taken so far that it is almost self-parody. The whole business with the cowboy comparison adds to that perspective.
debjyn,
It has been a challenging week. I think there has a been a subtle character development with Eva and April and also with John and the boys. You are right that it is not progress on any of the majour story arcs currently left hanging open.
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