Father’s Day

There is a peculiar obsession with Sunday colour comics to mention what the holiday is, whenever a holiday fall on a Sunday, like Mother’s Day and Father’s Day. So, once again, we see a Patterson dad celebrate Father’s Day. In 2005 and 2004, Mike was the focus. In 2003, all the fathers gathered together, including Grandpa Jim. Grandpa Jim is due, so maybe in 2007, he will take the holiday strip. The real reason I liked this strip was because visually speaking, it was a veritable cornucopia of snark. I wrote up a post for the FOOBiverse’s Journal that focused almost exclusively on all the artistic mistakes and I had to trim it and trim it to get it below the minimum required level to post.

So, each the April's Real Blog characters told stories about their Father’s Day that were intended to contrast the Patterson’s version. Aside from that, I had Mike Patterson point out some startling similarities between his friends as far as Father’s Day goes, i.e. all of them had home life problems. In contrast, April’s friends with home life problems (according to the strip and not April’s Real Blog) have all been cast aside by April as villains.

Tomorrow’s strip: Back to Mtigwaki and hopefully a visit back with Paul, although it is distinctly possible he will not show his face in Liz’s farewell celebration. It would just taint her departure to cheering and acclaim.