Working the Letters Part II

Since today’s strip mentioned Liz leaving Mtigwaki pretty directly, Constable Paul Wright had to abstain from making an appearance today in April’s Real Blog.

After Howard and Jeremy snarked the strip, we went back to the letters. Jeremy had a lunchtime conversation with, among others, Eva, and I had her beat up on the indecisive April over band issues pretty hard. I was pretty surprised the band was not written as progressing more in the May monthly letter, since they reformed back at the beginning of April and introduced at least one person, who is likely to be the new keyboardist in the April 2, birthday strip – the beret guy or the short girl, whom we have been playing as made-up characters Gordie Duroccher and Vicki Simone. I also had Eva snark her relationship with Duncan, since the monthly letters did not say word 1 about it after bringing it up in the strip (or at least a lot of satisified smirking.) It might not be fair to lay the whole blame on April for the band not progressing, but I remember that 4-Evah did not break up when Becky left. It broke up when April left.

Then Howard snarked the grandpa Jim letter with the first appearance of G-man and D-dog. There were so many goofy things in Grandpa Jim’s letter, it was fun to weave them all together.

Tomorrow’s strip: Liz. Your life is like the floating seed preparing to land and put down roots. Please notice, Vivian does not say word 1 about Constable Paul Wright and whether or not he should be consulted about Liz leaving.