The End of Preschool Forever
With today’s new-run of For Better or For Worse, I think we can safely eliminate the school bus-riding, full-day preschool strips of November 24-29, 2008; and January 12 – 17, 20, 29 – 31, 2009 from the canon. I now consider them to have gone the way of the second son of Anne Nichols into the land of “Lynn Johnston does no research and her memory stinks.” Not only does eliminating the preschool strips help with letting today’s new-run make sense; but in the long term, when Deanna Sobinski reappears in the strip over the next 3 years, it helps that reappearance make sense. The new canon therefore is:
a. Michael and Lawrence did not go to full-day preschool riding on a bus. They experienced this for the first time going to school for Grade 1 (or First Grade, if you like to suck up to people living in the States).
b. Deanna Sobinski has not left Milborough to live in Burlington.
Aside from egregious errors in the continuity, the most amusing parts of the story are those new-run button noses. Everytime I look at Lizzie and Michael now, I see a miniature clown or a miniature alcoholic – maybe both.
a. Michael and Lawrence did not go to full-day preschool riding on a bus. They experienced this for the first time going to school for Grade 1 (or First Grade, if you like to suck up to people living in the States).
b. Deanna Sobinski has not left Milborough to live in Burlington.
Aside from egregious errors in the continuity, the most amusing parts of the story are those new-run button noses. Everytime I look at Lizzie and Michael now, I see a miniature clown or a miniature alcoholic – maybe both.
posted by howard at 10:29 PM
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howard,
a. Michael and Lawrence did not go to full-day preschool riding on a bus. They experienced this for the first time going to school for Grade 1 (or First Grade, if you like to suck up to people living in the States).
b. Deanna Sobinski has not left Milborough to live in Burlington.
And if you point out that Lynn had established that they did do exactly that, Rick R, Jim Inman and all the other robots will whine that they don't want to have to think too hard about what they read.
dc2:
And if you point out that Lynn had established that they did do exactly that, Rick R, Jim Inman and all the other robots will whine that they don't want to have to think too hard about what they read.
And they'll admonish the haters not to say mean things, lest Lynn take her nibs and go home.
Alcoholic mini-clowns! I'll never look at the button noses the same way again, howtheduck! :)
(My verification word is a palindrome: rever.)
Oceania is at war with Eurasia. Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia.
DreadedCandiru2,
And if you point out that Lynn had established that they did do exactly that, Rick R, Jim Inman and all the other robots will whine that they don't want to have to think too hard about what they read.
I will never have that opportunity. I have written about the continuity issues to Coffee Talk for 3 days running and it is not getting in.
aprilp_katje,
And they'll admonish the haters not to say mean things, lest Lynn take her nibs and go home.
Exactly. They are in heaven that it is September and Lynn is still doing new stuff.
Alcoholic mini-clowns! I'll never look at the button noses the same way again, howtheduck! :)
Looking at them now, I wonder why it was that Lynn made the artistic change. The noses they had for year one were obviously copies from Charles Schulz. Maybe sometime in the first year, Mr. Schulz had a little conversation with Lynn about plagiarism, and Lynn in response, decided to use buttons. Or maybe she saw “Dumbo” and the sequence with the drunk clowns.
josephusrex,
Oceania is at war with Eurasia. Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia.
And the people from Oceania have always had button noses. Never anything else that looked like something Charles Schulz drew.
josephusrex, I was definitely thinking of those 1984 lines when I did this past Monday's FOOBAR. :)
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