Pet Bed or Chesterfield: Is There Really a Choice?
Today’s new-run of For Better or For Worse falls into the “pet on the couch” series of strips. You can see from the selection of strips available for searching for “couch” that there are quite a few strips involving pets on the old chesterfield. This strip in particular is one that comes close to matching the storyline of today’s strip. In both cases, Farley is sleeping soundly on the couch to be not only awakened by the sound of Elly shrieking but ends up with marks around his head indicating that he is dizzy from the sound. The difference in that strip is that Farley starts off looking like a dog lying on a couch in the old-run, instead of like a human in a dog suit as he does in today’s new-run.
The oddest part about the strip is in Panel 10, with the silhouette of Elly running and the odd light show radiating from her body. I think I may have seen a Bionic Woman poster that looked like that years ago. Even if it is really Elly running, wouldn’t she be running straight into a wall?
The oddest part about the strip is in Panel 10, with the silhouette of Elly running and the odd light show radiating from her body. I think I may have seen a Bionic Woman poster that looked like that years ago. Even if it is really Elly running, wouldn’t she be running straight into a wall?
posted by howard at 12:13 AM
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Even if it is really Elly running, wouldn’t she be running straight into a wall?
I wondered that too. Why is Elly running? Has she been away from her washing machine for too long, and can't handle another moment without her laundry fix? Or maybe she just wants to get away from Farley as quickly as possible, since being around pets and children gives her hives.
If she keeps running into walls, that would explain why she doesn't seem to learn from the past; she's probably buzzed half the time.
Clio,
Why is Elly running?
I get it now. Elly has just bought something for Farley as a kindness to him, and she doesn’t want anyone to find out. After all this was the last bed she got Farley, and this new bed doesn’t look like a cage.
DreadedCandiru2,
If she keeps running into walls, that would explain why she doesn't seem to learn from the past; she's probably buzzed half the time.
I am reminded of some old television dog whose vision was going, and the constant joke was how he kept running into walls, when he got excited about something.
She's running towards the light, which must mean that her strip is having a near-death experience?
And who the hell trains a dog by shouting at it? No wonder the poor mutt kept jumping up on the couch. Probably figured the crazy woman was just having another psychotic fugue/
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