Contrasts
Much to my surprise in tomorrow’s For Better or For Worse, Michael Patterson does not make a speech. Much to my anger, we are not seeing a parade of old For Better or For Worse characters at this party. Much to my shock Liz actually confesses she feels insignificant compared to Mike.
The most interesting thing about this sequence this week was the display of model pictures which represented Josef Weeder’s career. In the monthly letters, and in particular the Mike letters, Josef Weeder’s career was described as branching away from pure portraiture, to different styles of pictures. Yet in the strip, we have seen no evidence of it. Josef Weeder of the strip, is still purely a fashion photographer. Correction. fashion photographer and slumlord.
The most interesting thing about this sequence this week was the display of model pictures which represented Josef Weeder’s career. In the monthly letters, and in particular the Mike letters, Josef Weeder’s career was described as branching away from pure portraiture, to different styles of pictures. Yet in the strip, we have seen no evidence of it. Josef Weeder of the strip, is still purely a fashion photographer. Correction. fashion photographer and slumlord.
posted by howard at 12:39 AM
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Yes, I think Weed's photography is about as mundane as it comes. I suppose we shouldn't be surprised that there's a disconnect between the rapturous descriptions in Michael's letters and the actual photographs as presented in the strip.
In the letters, Josef Weeder has a staff beyond Carleen, and he does mainly advertisement photography for publications and not just fashion photography. In the strip, we haven’t seen the staff or evidence of the advertisement photography. In fact, what we have in the strip, is the sudden interest of Josef in property ownership with owning the building in which his studio is housed and now the old Saltzman place. It's an interesting message, considering Josef Weeder now represents Aaron Johnston.
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