Bad Art
Today in For Better or For Worse, we had the bad artist. I was almost going to write in up in my usual FOOBiverse’s Journal post, because the face of every character changed in every single panel. It would have been like a Iris looks like Moira Kinney, or Scrooge McDuck, or Henry (the comic strip character); or Liz looks like her forehead has sunk in, or her hairline has receded, or she’s doing Angelina Jolie adopting an African baby that looks like Grandpa Jim. But I have written about the poor art of the bad artist so many times, I am quite tired of it.
I looks like Lynn Johnston is finally starting to combine her Liz stories with the rest of her family’s stories, with this long-awaited “When is Liz going to see Grandpa Jim?” story. Liz’s prior mention of visiting her grandpa in the hospital had her say Grandpa Jim mistook her for a young Elly, when if you consider Grandpa Jim’s current speaking skills, is a fairly preposterous pronouncement.
I had Constable Paul Wright take credit for the visit. I checked to see if Michael Patterson had visited and he has not. In the monthly letters, he said that he and his dad prepared many things around their apartment for them, and the strip mentioned the bathroom only, which is one of those annoying moments where you really wish Stephanie would look at the upcoming strips and compare them to the letters. However, visiting Grandpa Jim’s apartment which does not have Grandpa Jim in it, is not the same as visiting Grandpa Jim. So, Michael is the one Patterson remaining who has not visited him. I snarked Michael on that particular.
Today’s strip had Liz going to the Howard Bunt trial, presumably, although she just says “courthouse.” I am preparing Howard for the situation, but the first complication is I don’t know if he is getting a jury trial or a judge only. Given the police surveillance and sudden multitude of witnesses, I would guess judge and jury, but there is no telling what episode of Law and Order Lynn watched before writing the strip, so who knows?
Jeremy Jones is still suffering from his in-school suspension. While researching this, I discovered that there are very few schools in the Toronto area that do in-school suspension, usually for lack of money to hire an in-school suspension staff. Most schools apparently actually suspend the student, so they are walking the streets free as a punishment. I have never understood that concept. However, I consider the Milborough school system to be exceptionally progressive and will have in-school suspension. There was a big to-do in the Toronto newspapers towards the end of 2005, having to do with in-school suspensions being more than locking the kids up in a room all day long. From the material I read, there was a hue and cry for those kids not getting a fair education (and also that suspensions were racially motivated). So, they ruled that the material covered had to be comparable to what they would have gotten were they not being punished for not attending class. For Jeremy Jones, since he should be no longer associated with Becky after the Gym Jam (Grr. Grrr.), he will start going in a different direction in April’s Real Blog.
I looks like Lynn Johnston is finally starting to combine her Liz stories with the rest of her family’s stories, with this long-awaited “When is Liz going to see Grandpa Jim?” story. Liz’s prior mention of visiting her grandpa in the hospital had her say Grandpa Jim mistook her for a young Elly, when if you consider Grandpa Jim’s current speaking skills, is a fairly preposterous pronouncement.
I had Constable Paul Wright take credit for the visit. I checked to see if Michael Patterson had visited and he has not. In the monthly letters, he said that he and his dad prepared many things around their apartment for them, and the strip mentioned the bathroom only, which is one of those annoying moments where you really wish Stephanie would look at the upcoming strips and compare them to the letters. However, visiting Grandpa Jim’s apartment which does not have Grandpa Jim in it, is not the same as visiting Grandpa Jim. So, Michael is the one Patterson remaining who has not visited him. I snarked Michael on that particular.
Today’s strip had Liz going to the Howard Bunt trial, presumably, although she just says “courthouse.” I am preparing Howard for the situation, but the first complication is I don’t know if he is getting a jury trial or a judge only. Given the police surveillance and sudden multitude of witnesses, I would guess judge and jury, but there is no telling what episode of Law and Order Lynn watched before writing the strip, so who knows?
Jeremy Jones is still suffering from his in-school suspension. While researching this, I discovered that there are very few schools in the Toronto area that do in-school suspension, usually for lack of money to hire an in-school suspension staff. Most schools apparently actually suspend the student, so they are walking the streets free as a punishment. I have never understood that concept. However, I consider the Milborough school system to be exceptionally progressive and will have in-school suspension. There was a big to-do in the Toronto newspapers towards the end of 2005, having to do with in-school suspensions being more than locking the kids up in a room all day long. From the material I read, there was a hue and cry for those kids not getting a fair education (and also that suspensions were racially motivated). So, they ruled that the material covered had to be comparable to what they would have gotten were they not being punished for not attending class. For Jeremy Jones, since he should be no longer associated with Becky after the Gym Jam (Grr. Grrr.), he will start going in a different direction in April’s Real Blog.
posted by howard at 9:38 PM
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Poor Jeremy. :(
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