Eva the Aggressor
Today in For Better or For Worse, Lynn Johnston seems to be continuing with the development of the character of Eva Abuya as being fairly aggressive and abrasive. Initially she appeared to be the standard Pattersonian sycophant, overly praising April’s hairclip and shoes. Then she appeared as a potential Duncan love interest. Then we had the infamous boys and cars and cell phones are like cowboys and horses and gunfights analogy, with the line about punching people out. Then we had the inexplicable Becky hate going, presumably because Becky was Eva’s former best friend. Follow this up with the conversation she had with April about her grandpa, where she left April running away from her in tears. Then she jumps all over Gerald for making a suggestion to improve their band, which it is revealed in tomorrow’s strip, sounds like crud. When you take it all into consideration, it seems like Eva is a rather unpleasant girl to be around.
Lynn Johnston also seems to be continuing with the “Luis has no personality” method of writing his character. I enjoyed the fact that he and April were standing very close together, and tried to make something of that, based on the hot-blooded Latino character with which qnjones imbued him shortly after he first appeared.
Tomorrow’s strip: Phil soon will be to the rescue as the band stops doing the thing that usually helps a band get better, i.e. practice.
Lynn Johnston also seems to be continuing with the “Luis has no personality” method of writing his character. I enjoyed the fact that he and April were standing very close together, and tried to make something of that, based on the hot-blooded Latino character with which qnjones imbued him shortly after he first appeared.
Tomorrow’s strip: Phil soon will be to the rescue as the band stops doing the thing that usually helps a band get better, i.e. practice.
posted by howard at 10:51 PM
3 Comments:
Yes, on the whole, Eva is at least twice as unpleasant as Becky ever was. What have they done to establish her as nice? Pretty much the only thing was having her compliment April's accessories a lot when they first met.
I noticed you picking up on Luis the Latin Lover and I thought it was great!
Eva's one nice moment was her good advice to April about looking for something good about Liz moving in and that's it. Her other appearances in band rehearsals, she did not have one scrap of dialogue. The difference between her and Becky was Becky was cruel to Shannon and strangers, whereas Eva is cruel to Gerald, Becky and ironically April, herself. The message is: It's OK to be mean to your friends and their enemies, but it's not OK to be mean to people with special needs and strangers.
aprilp_katje had some wayback machine website she used to use to reference those letters, but I don't know what it was. I usually only reference the on-line letters.
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