Monday, October 02, 2006

My Friends are Jerks Part I

Today’s For Better or For Worse was very snarkable. Gerald using hip-hop slang reminded me a lot of the time when I had Gordon Mayes do the same thing for comedic effect some months ago. Then Gerald just blew off April’s feelings and tried to bribe her to come to rehearsal with the lure of outshining Becky McGuire and pizza. My initial thought was that this was going to be a continuation of the Gerald the Jerk story begun last year when he badmouthed the special needs kids. However tomorrow’s strip where Eva is portrayed an insensitive jerk leads me to believe that we are headed down the path of poor, poor April. Her friends could care less about her. It’s what comes from picking friends based on their ethnicity instead of their compatibility.
In Wednesday’s strip, Duncan will say something rude, then maybe Becky McGuire on Thursday, but then on Friday to Saturday, April will encounter none other than Shannon Lake, who will manage to cheer up April yet again by telling about the terrible tragedy that resulted in her grandfather’s death, going through the blizzard to deliver the medicine that cause Shannon’s life to be saved from that rare disease which can only be defeated by blizzard-delivered medicine. Traveling along with him were Balto the half-wolf guide dog, and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. That’s my prediction for the rest of the week.

2 Comments:

Blogger April Patterson said...

Or maybe Shannon will say, "Oh...well...April...people get sick...they die...let's...talk...about...me!"

Nah, she has to be full of goodness and unexpected wisdom, fo' shizzle! ;)

4:04 AM  
Blogger howard said...

She is a surprise package waiting to be opened, after all, with no bad surprises.

6:42 AM  

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