Sunday, 8 September 2024
The one where it's good that Elly reminds us that she's living in the past.
Synopsis: An angry Liz is forced to write her name on her school supplies like she's the pathetic idiot with her ID tag sewed into her panties because Elly believes in school supply thieves.
Summary: This is because she won't spend John's money buying school supplies in ( Read more... )
Another opportunity to compare the colouring of 2024:
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Oh Lynn.....you've been in your fantasy capsule so long that you no longer understand what wear and tear is.
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It's not just that Elly thhinks inflation shouldn't affect the prices of things that she doesn't buy. Almost all comic strip parents created by boomers think that. What's wrong is that she also doesn't understand how much more homework the kids are given.
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This is actually camera in my house time for me. My father has been perpetually shocked at the increased cost of things my entire life. There have been many moments where he would hand me money while saying, "Go and buy one of those. This should be enough money." Then I go to buy that thing and it cost 3 times what he gave me. I tell him this and he is shocked and says something like, "The last time I bought one, it only cost this amount of money." Then I find out the last time he bought one was 20 years ago.
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1. Liz is being quite the drama queen. "Nobody my age does that" is fine. The several panels of filler are not necessary.
2. Liz should ask her mother why the money for the replacement supplies should come out of Liz's pocket, when the money for the original supplies didn't come out of Elly's pocket. She should also ask her mother why replacing a lost ruler is out-of-budget but buying Michael a sweater he just notices in the window of a store is not.
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This is another fat weekly strip that reminds us that Elly doesn't much like or trust Elizabeth. Boys will be dudebros but she has to keep Liz held down.
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To Michael: "You glanced at a sweater and want to try it on? Ok, let's go in, and I'll just buy it while complaining about the music on the loudspeakers."
To Liz: "Put your name on your school supplies. If you lose something, you'll have to pay for it yourself."
By the way, what if Liz loses something that had her name on it? Will Elly then agree to use John's money to replace it? Or just assume that if it gets lost, it must mean it didn't have Liz's name on it? What is the "thought" process here, assuming any thinking is going on at all?
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The thought process is that Liz is the menacing stranger who wants to run away from love, tolerance and forgiveness when she breaks pottery birds. Remember, Elly doesn't see herself as being the psycho with the anger issues everyone else does. This means that for some reason, Liz seems to see her as a violent lunatic incapable of understanding her.
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1. Liz is being quite the drama queen. "Nobody my age does that" is fine. The several panels of filler are not necessary.
It is a rare Sunday comic strip where Lynn Johnston actually takes advantage of the space and tells a whole story. Mostly what we have is a daily comic strip idea expanded with repetition to fill the space.
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She could secretly plan on asking her dad for the money to replace supplies.
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What's a math set?
Who gets pissed at a kid for socks getting lost in the laundry, especially if it's Elly doing the damn laundry in the first place?
Rulers and pencil sharpeners aren't exactly expensive.
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2) Elly Patterson does
3) Saying so would have gotten Liz hip deep in shit. Nothing angers Mommy like a threat rendered hollow.
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I understand why the three throwaway panels operate as a min-strip with its own punchline (or "punch line" if you're Lynn). But I hate the throwaway-ness of them. And they're stupid.
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I'm thinking Elly isn't so much thinking of classmates stealing supplies as she is that Liz would carelessly lose them. Somehow she imagines if someone finds the forgotten supplies, and they have Liz's name written on them, they'll find her and return them.
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That's the sad truth.
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