Back to School Supplies, or Weapon Against a Sister?
New Run Status: ½ new-runs to go - Almost there!!
Number of “‘an”s in the comic strip: 8. I believe we have a new record.
I remember when my kids learned to be possessive over gifts. At my kids’ first birthday party, they were oblivious to it all. Other kids opened their presents for them and they didn’t care one bit. At the second birthday party, that all changed. Little Lizzie is somewhere between the ages of 1 and 2, I think. It has never been very clear just what is Lizzie’s new-run age, especially since Michael was announced to be in preschool in the new-runs, while he was in kindergarten in the reprints. Back on July 15 and 16, Lizzie was very possessive. She violently protected her space and knew the word “mine”, a word normally associated with 2-year-olds. On the other hand, reprint Lizzie seems much less advanced, rarely says anything and still seems to be exploring things by grabbing them.
This is new-run Lizzie we have in today’s For Better or For Worse, so she acts older. She looks shocked when Michael informs her that she does not get any back-to-school stuff. All I can say about that is, “Oh Elly! If Lizzie were a real 2-year-old she would make you pay dearly for that slight.” Of course, I can’t tell if Lizzie is shocked by Mike’s statement or if she is simply doing an imitation of a Who from Whoville from Dr. Seuss or a Brooke McEldowney woman from 9 Chickweed Lane, with that button nose and huge gap from nose to mouth. I would go with 9 Chickweed Lane, if I were Lizzie. At least the material is well-drawn and all new there.
Of course, I am now confused about Hinkley’s Handy Haven, where we saw Elly shopping yesterday. Mike has back-to-school supplies, which you can get at Walmart. However, in the television advertisement, the outside display for the store, and inside the store shown in the last 2 days strips; it looked like Hinkley’s Handy Haven sold only clothes. I wonder if I am supposed to read between the lines and realize that anything true about Walmart is true about Hinkley’s Handy Haven.
Number of “‘an”s in the comic strip: 8. I believe we have a new record.
I remember when my kids learned to be possessive over gifts. At my kids’ first birthday party, they were oblivious to it all. Other kids opened their presents for them and they didn’t care one bit. At the second birthday party, that all changed. Little Lizzie is somewhere between the ages of 1 and 2, I think. It has never been very clear just what is Lizzie’s new-run age, especially since Michael was announced to be in preschool in the new-runs, while he was in kindergarten in the reprints. Back on July 15 and 16, Lizzie was very possessive. She violently protected her space and knew the word “mine”, a word normally associated with 2-year-olds. On the other hand, reprint Lizzie seems much less advanced, rarely says anything and still seems to be exploring things by grabbing them.
This is new-run Lizzie we have in today’s For Better or For Worse, so she acts older. She looks shocked when Michael informs her that she does not get any back-to-school stuff. All I can say about that is, “Oh Elly! If Lizzie were a real 2-year-old she would make you pay dearly for that slight.” Of course, I can’t tell if Lizzie is shocked by Mike’s statement or if she is simply doing an imitation of a Who from Whoville from Dr. Seuss or a Brooke McEldowney woman from 9 Chickweed Lane, with that button nose and huge gap from nose to mouth. I would go with 9 Chickweed Lane, if I were Lizzie. At least the material is well-drawn and all new there.
Of course, I am now confused about Hinkley’s Handy Haven, where we saw Elly shopping yesterday. Mike has back-to-school supplies, which you can get at Walmart. However, in the television advertisement, the outside display for the store, and inside the store shown in the last 2 days strips; it looked like Hinkley’s Handy Haven sold only clothes. I wonder if I am supposed to read between the lines and realize that anything true about Walmart is true about Hinkley’s Handy Haven.
posted by howard at 10:02 PM
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Keep in mind, even in the new-runs Lynn herself seems unsure if Liz is a verbal and walking toddler or a tiny, non-speaking, doll-like infant.
(See Monday's strip)
All I can say is, if John does not instantly tell Mike he's out of line, then this is just fodder for Lynn to treat us to another men/boys are selfish brutes message. Ho-hum.
howard,
This is new-run Lizzie we have in today’s For Better or For Worse, so she acts older. She looks shocked when Michael informs her that she does not get any back-to-school stuff. All I can say about that is, “Oh Elly! If Lizzie were a real 2-year-old she would make you pay dearly for that slight.
Not that Lynn would remember that, of course; she's too busy selling the men are pigs thing to pay attention to how a real Lizzie would react.
Anonymous,
All I can say is, if John does not instantly tell Mike he's out of line, then this is just fodder for Lynn to treat us to another men/boys are selfish brutes message. Ho-hum.
I doubt we will get this line out of John. With Lynn’s style of doing comic strips, it is entirely possible that Lizzie’s startled reaction in the strip is as much as we will get. She often likes to end a strip with a character looking gobsmacked and no other follow-up than that. On the other hand, it is only Wednesday, so chances are the rest of the week will revolve around Lizzie’s reaction.
DreadedCandiru2,
Not that Lynn would remember that, of course; she's too busy selling the men are pigs thing to pay attention to how a real Lizzie would react.
Very likely. With my kids, one is always aware when the other is getting things and the other is not. You usually have to buy a little something to avoid those kind of jealousies.
I wonder if I am supposed to read between the lines and realize that anything true about Walmart is true about Hinkley’s Handy Haven.
That would be my guess. She seems to believe her readers ought to do at least 51% of the work when it comes to piecing these kinds of things together. If you asked her about this, she'd probably scoff and saying something like, "Obviously they were just in the children's-clothes section of a large Walmart-type store, and they bought Mike's school supplies in another section! I like my reading-between-the-lines readers best! Except when they read in stuff I don't want them to! Go away, I need a beer and a snack!" ;)
Back to school is coming. Thanks for this post.
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