New Artist?
I think the For Better or For Worse people must be trying out a new artist. Honestly, if I did not know that today’s strip was about Mike and Dee, I would not have recognized them. The most basic essentials of what makes their characters look like they are, like big lips for Deanna, were gone and no where to be seen. Tomorrow’s strip is just as disjointed artwise. I don’t know what is going on up in Corbeil with the art. Even when the artist was turning April into werewolf, or shrinking her to baby size, it wasn’t this off from the standard character appearance.
The strip dialogue itself was not too bad, but virtually unsnarkable from most of my characters. I looked up “Ojibway childhood diseases” and was frankly astounded at the poor conditions their children are in. They get the otitis media, and this leads to delayed learning, delayed speech, the inability to get a decent job, and whole series of mental illnesses if not treated. The 23% the constable quotes is taken from an actual study done on the problem. Then when qnjones as Liz mentioned in a humourous way, job choices for women, I searched on “Ojibway women jobs” and found the statistics on average salaries and a whole host of problems on Ojibway women finding any kind of job. The employment rate was a frighteningly low 46% for Ojibway women, with a very high suicide rate, because they take it on themselves to try to fix the problems that they as a people have. It was very depressing to read and I couldn’t put too much of that in Constable Paul Wright’s stuff without it losing any inkling of being funny. But I realized that among his people, the good constable’s salary is very nice indeed.
Fortunately, qnjones drove more storyline with Gerald insisting on 4 children and that very complex analysis of the For Better or For Worse universe, via the hysterically funny Johnston Institute pamphlets. My characters were able to ride off that for the rest of the day. The only side note was doing some Eva snark on the parts of the April monthly letter I had not previously touched, i.e. the description of Eva’s musical abilities and her long list of school work she has to do. I revisited John Patterson’s anti-Becky, pro-fun monthly letter from last fall, since it was an obvious connection to the description that Eva only sings for the fun of it. I did not realize how many times John said the word “fun” in that letter until I started writing it down line for line.
Tomorrow’s strip: Elly has arrived and we don’t see who invited her. But Lovey stops by to lead into yet more complaining about the Kelpfroths, which we already know will continue into Friday. Will Elly draw the second hand smoking conclusion virtually every FBoFW message board thinks will be the source of Robin’s problems? Only time will tell.
The strip dialogue itself was not too bad, but virtually unsnarkable from most of my characters. I looked up “Ojibway childhood diseases” and was frankly astounded at the poor conditions their children are in. They get the otitis media, and this leads to delayed learning, delayed speech, the inability to get a decent job, and whole series of mental illnesses if not treated. The 23% the constable quotes is taken from an actual study done on the problem. Then when qnjones as Liz mentioned in a humourous way, job choices for women, I searched on “Ojibway women jobs” and found the statistics on average salaries and a whole host of problems on Ojibway women finding any kind of job. The employment rate was a frighteningly low 46% for Ojibway women, with a very high suicide rate, because they take it on themselves to try to fix the problems that they as a people have. It was very depressing to read and I couldn’t put too much of that in Constable Paul Wright’s stuff without it losing any inkling of being funny. But I realized that among his people, the good constable’s salary is very nice indeed.
Fortunately, qnjones drove more storyline with Gerald insisting on 4 children and that very complex analysis of the For Better or For Worse universe, via the hysterically funny Johnston Institute pamphlets. My characters were able to ride off that for the rest of the day. The only side note was doing some Eva snark on the parts of the April monthly letter I had not previously touched, i.e. the description of Eva’s musical abilities and her long list of school work she has to do. I revisited John Patterson’s anti-Becky, pro-fun monthly letter from last fall, since it was an obvious connection to the description that Eva only sings for the fun of it. I did not realize how many times John said the word “fun” in that letter until I started writing it down line for line.
Tomorrow’s strip: Elly has arrived and we don’t see who invited her. But Lovey stops by to lead into yet more complaining about the Kelpfroths, which we already know will continue into Friday. Will Elly draw the second hand smoking conclusion virtually every FBoFW message board thinks will be the source of Robin’s problems? Only time will tell.
posted by howard at 10:54 PM
2 Comments:
The only question I have with the secondhand smoke issue is how are they going to show it without incriminating Lovey for poor building maintenance? It has to travel from one apartment to another and still have enough punch to affect Robin. In my mind, that means poorly maintained building, not evil Kelpfroths.
I am glad you liked the Eva / John snark. I had been waiting for a chance to sneak in that "fun" snark for awhile.
Good point about the age of the building and the smoke free expectations. It will be interesting to see how they show the smoke when it is detected by Elly, if there is just a smell or some kind of visible smoke lines showing an unimpeded line of cigar smoke to the apartment.
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