The Return of the Vacuum
In For Better or For Worse, it looks like we have resolved the John retirement house in 3 strips and so we are moving to a sequence of refrigerator strips or as I like to call them, strips with panels specifically designed to be on commercially available postcard, posters, and t-shirts. The last panel of today’s strip definitely qualifies in that regard.
Today’s strip was difficult to snark, because the joke about dogs and vacuuming has been done again and again and again in this strip. My characters spoke a little about vacuuming, but with this little from Lynn to drive it, there was not much to base the day on. The bulk of my posting came from Michael Patterson who took April to task for something that is actually Lynn Johnston’s fault—writing in her Real Blog about Elly vacuuming, something a real April would avoid doing like the plague. On these kinds of occasions, I love old Michael, because he can be the perfect foil for aprilp_katje’s April. Every time she turns around to tell Mike to buzz off, he takes that and turns it back on April. I enjoy that interplay particularly when it can be taken to ridiculous levels, like Mike accusing April of being jealous of the dogs for getting a hug from Elly. Aside from that, Howard picked up on qnjones’ story about Becky McQuire having many suitors due to being a Milborough teenage pop star, which is not too farfetched considering the monthly letters said that Becky had a CD which she was pushing on a summer tour. My favourite thing to write was a very meta snark from Shannon Lake through the perspective of her mother, who snarked the repetition of the joke itself, as if Lynn were treating her readers like they were special needs because they couldn’t remember this joke had been done so many times before.
Tomorrow’s strip: This is a dangerous strip to do, because the required repetition of Elly’s face from panel to panel points out clearly how the artist of the strip does not have the ability to draw the proportions of Elly’s face (length and shape of nose, position of eyes relative to the top and bottom of the head, jaw line, etc.) the same from panel to panel in the same strip. However, this will be an easy one to snark.
Today’s strip was difficult to snark, because the joke about dogs and vacuuming has been done again and again and again in this strip. My characters spoke a little about vacuuming, but with this little from Lynn to drive it, there was not much to base the day on. The bulk of my posting came from Michael Patterson who took April to task for something that is actually Lynn Johnston’s fault—writing in her Real Blog about Elly vacuuming, something a real April would avoid doing like the plague. On these kinds of occasions, I love old Michael, because he can be the perfect foil for aprilp_katje’s April. Every time she turns around to tell Mike to buzz off, he takes that and turns it back on April. I enjoy that interplay particularly when it can be taken to ridiculous levels, like Mike accusing April of being jealous of the dogs for getting a hug from Elly. Aside from that, Howard picked up on qnjones’ story about Becky McQuire having many suitors due to being a Milborough teenage pop star, which is not too farfetched considering the monthly letters said that Becky had a CD which she was pushing on a summer tour. My favourite thing to write was a very meta snark from Shannon Lake through the perspective of her mother, who snarked the repetition of the joke itself, as if Lynn were treating her readers like they were special needs because they couldn’t remember this joke had been done so many times before.
Tomorrow’s strip: This is a dangerous strip to do, because the required repetition of Elly’s face from panel to panel points out clearly how the artist of the strip does not have the ability to draw the proportions of Elly’s face (length and shape of nose, position of eyes relative to the top and bottom of the head, jaw line, etc.) the same from panel to panel in the same strip. However, this will be an easy one to snark.
posted by howard at 9:56 PM
2 Comments:
Not much to say, but, um--look over there! ------->
::hides worms::
;)
Oh my meal of worms has been hidden once again. What ever shall I do?
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