I Remember Fred
Back when I was in 8th grade, I did a comic strip for the school newspaper called “Fred”. In one particular strip, I remember Fred and his group of friends were sitting around discussing what it was they collected. One boy said, “Stamps”, another boy said, “Comic books”, another boy said, “Coins”. Then someone asked Fred what he collected and Fred replied, “Dust.”
In today’s For Better or For Worse, Michael Patterson’s punch line of “Dirt” in response to what more he wanted reminded me a lot of my old Fred comic strip. The execution and set up are similar with dialogue leading to a final panel punch line. The difference is that I think my comic strip I wrote when I was 13 was funnier.
In today’s For Better or For Worse, Michael Patterson’s punch line of “Dirt” in response to what more he wanted reminded me a lot of my old Fred comic strip. The execution and set up are similar with dialogue leading to a final panel punch line. The difference is that I think my comic strip I wrote when I was 13 was funnier.
posted by howard at 11:40 PM
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What surprises me is that Lynn put this particular strip in this sequence. It's plain to see that this is probably supposed to be a critique of parents who can't understand that children get bored with the mountain of toys they beg for and want to do something else. How it would connect up with Michael's explanation of why he tormented Liz is something of a mystery.
Maybe Mike was bugging Liz because he was bored and had nothing else to do?
muzitiion:
Maybe Mike was bugging Liz because he was bored and had nothing else to do?
That's probably where this is headed. Given that the point of the endgame is to burn away all of Mike's sins and make him into a copy of Fred from Scooby-Doo, which is to say a smiling leader-type figure with no personality, I would not be surprised if we ended up hearing that Elly's rotten parenting was the real reason he picked on Liz. This Saturday, I know that I'll see some variation of the theme "I wanted to do the right thing but my mother pitted us against each other."
DreadedCandiru2,
What surprises me is that Lynn put this particular strip in this sequence.
You know that once we get one strip with little Michael in it, then really any strip with little Michael in it can be used. After all, Lynn’s reading public is too nitwitted to figure out what she was doing with her master plan of the hybrid, so now she is forced to do it every other week instead of every other month to accommodate their inability to focus on what’s happening. Since her feeble-minded audience’s attention span is so short, who would possibly notice that today’s strip does not fit in with the theme of this strip sequence?
I would not be surprised if we ended up hearing that Elly's rotten parenting was the real reason he picked on Liz.
Elly’s rotten parenting? Surely you jest. Elly is a model of good parenting. She puts the grand in grandmother, after all. My guess is that we will see his teasing to somehow be related to his creative genius.
I forgot that this isn't supposed to make the blindest bit of sense for a second. Of course he did all this because he was a misunderstood genius and, hat's more, Deanna will applaud him like she always does. I wouldn't be surprised if she wound up thinking the Noble Scribe was too lenient on her.
dreadedcandiru2,
Deanna will applaud him like she always does. I wouldn't be surprised if she wound up thinking the Noble Scribe was too lenient on her.
I can see her now. "Yes I did deserve to have my hair plucked out strand by strand, because I was cuter."
Your cartoon does sound a heck of a lot funnier than the one today. Fred also has more personality in your brief synopsis than Lynn has been able to create for her characters after all these years.
debyn,
My 13-year-old self thanks you.
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