What I find interesting is that this is Vi's last appearance in the strip. We have no idea why she's there in the first place and we get no reconnecting with her later on. What we do know is what's really important:
1) Injecting comedy relief battle-ax landlady Agnes Dingle into the strip.
2) Mike wailing because Rhetta uses the cruel words "I'm a person too" (which he uses as an excuse to be a shit to her).
3) More bullshit about how Candace is evil and wrong because she wants Liz to grow the Hell up and stop being a possessive fraidy-cat.
4) Elly finally changing unflattering hairdos that add twenty years (which is how long her menopause lasts).
5) Another vacation from the kids.
6) BS about timeshares
7) BS about Liz being a bully to April
8) MIKE TAKING ADVANTAGE OF A WOMAN WHOSE BRAINS ARE IN A DITCH OFF OF THE 401 (and who will never hurt him by expecting to be treated like a person).
9) Mike hearing the baffling and impossible words "other people are real too."
10) Elly agonizing because she needs glasses.
This means that Lynn cannot waste time focusing on the meaningless life of a child.
Vi made it longer than Miss Carlos who disappeared after Tuesday October 8, 2024. Lynn seems to want to focus on the April and Becky dynamic from this point on, so any school comics are just with them and no teachers. When they get to kindergarten next year, teachers are shown, but they are not named and Duncan is finally given a name. Also, Lynn makes it really clear why Duncan was created and why we will never get any backstory or information about Duncan as a character. He is there for one reason and one reason only.
The April and Becky dynamic is, despite all the convoluted gibberish about family politics, quite simple to explain: April is fed a steady stream of bullshit about how awful and scary Becky is because of one thing:
she sees clean through Elly and tells April what Mommy is doing as well as actively resenting Elly's kind of compliment:
.As for Gerald, we have to wait four more years for him to emerge from The Living Muck:
At least when Gerald appeared, he did not automatically start pretending to be April's boyfriend. Lynn apparently learned from her other drop-in romances (Anthony and Tracey), that people tended to care more about a character if they got to know them first.
and I'm with @jjamele, that still doesn't explain the guy lurking around unless he's planning on stealing stuff out of little kids' lockers so he needs to know the combinations.
What I find interesting is that this is Vi's last appearance in the strip. We have no idea why she's there in the first place and we get no reconnecting with her later on. What we do know is what's really important:
1) Injecting comedy relief battle-ax landlady Agnes Dingle into the strip.
2) Mike wailing because Rhetta uses the cruel words "I'm a person too" (which he uses as an excuse to be a shit to her).
3) More bullshit about how Candace is evil and wrong because she wants Liz to grow the Hell up and stop being a possessive fraidy-cat.
4) Elly finally changing unflattering hairdos that add twenty years (which is how long her menopause lasts).
5) Another vacation from the kids.
6) BS about timeshares
7) BS about Liz being a bully to April
8) MIKE TAKING ADVANTAGE OF A WOMAN WHOSE BRAINS ARE IN A DITCH OFF OF THE 401 (and who will never hurt him by expecting to be treated like a person).
9) Mike hearing the baffling and impossible words "other people are real too."
10) Elly agonizing because she needs glasses.
This means that Lynn cannot waste time focusing on the meaningless life of a child.
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Vi made it longer than Miss Carlos who disappeared after Tuesday October 8, 2024. Lynn seems to want to focus on the April and Becky dynamic from this point on, so any school comics are just with them and no teachers. When they get to kindergarten next year, teachers are shown, but they are not named and Duncan is finally given a name. Also, Lynn makes it really clear why Duncan was created and why we will never get any backstory or information about Duncan as a character. He is there for one reason and one reason only.
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The April and Becky dynamic is, despite all the convoluted gibberish about family politics, quite simple to explain: April is fed a steady stream of bullshit about how awful and scary Becky is because of one thing:
she sees clean through Elly and tells April what Mommy is doing as well as actively resenting Elly's kind of compliment:
.As for Gerald, we have to wait four more years for him to emerge from The Living Muck:
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At least when Gerald appeared, he did not automatically start pretending to be April's boyfriend. Lynn apparently learned from her other drop-in romances (Anthony and Tracey), that people tended to care more about a character if they got to know them first.
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ok, I give up. What the hell is the punchline and what does it have to do with the guy who seems to be pacing in the background?
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The kids are 'supposed' to know a woman's measurements because Lynn does.
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and why would April go ew?
and I'm with @jjamele, that still doesn't explain the guy lurking around unless he's planning on stealing stuff out of little kids' lockers so he needs to know the combinations.
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My guess is that he's meant to be a teacher asking what's wrong with kids there's nothing wrong with.
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yeah, I don't get that strip either.
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This looks like she's actually saying "huff snort". Of course not very many people actually go "hoo" all the time either.
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