A Different Person Every Day

Articles abound interviewing Lynn Johnston over the upcoming hybrid strip. I was quite surprised when one of them quoted Lynn as saying she didn’t know whom Elizabeth would pick. That’s complete baloney of course. The only thing odd is that Lynn would pretend she doesn’t know.

She seemed to indicate that the hybrids are going to actually contain storylines, but that they would be uncomplicated mild ones. This week with April has all the feel of a hybrid strip. I can see Thursday’s strip surrounding a sequence of old strips with Elly and April shopping for clothes, assuming that Lynn is going to group the strips thematically, to relate them to the surrounding material.

As for what I learned about the second banana characters today, the only thing obvious is that when Elly arrived on the scene, Eva left the scene. When it comes to fashions, Elly and April are like the blind leading the blind. April could have used Eva’s fashion sense. It is interesting that Eva would not be included in the Elly / April clothes shopping, when she was right there at Elly’s arrival. It makes me curious about the circumstances of her departure, since I have never actually seen Eva interact with Elly. Actually, when you get right down to it, I don’t think I have ever seen Elly interact with any of April’s friends. Certainly the days of Elly having heart-to-heart conversations with Candace, Lawrence, or Gordon are long over.