Another opportunity to compare the colouring of 2025:
With the colouring of 1995:
I am completely thrown by the difference in Josef Weeder's hair colour from 1995. However, going back through the earliest Sunday comics with Josef Weeder, I can tell that Lynn was going back and forth on the subject.
Here is Josef's first Sunday appearance with a brown tint:
But later on, he shows up looking like this with blue tint:
As for the story, back in the early days of word processors, the motto was "Save early and save often." Clearly Michael had not heard this, and he went for "Only save at the very end when you are done."
That said, I enjoy seeing that Lynn did not bother to update the overhead projector because she famously used them for her chalk talks all the way until her last one a few years back, when people had to hunt for them to accommodate her.
So close and yet, it seems to be missing the basic elements of how the device works.
1) Nobody could get it through Mrs I Have A Flipbook's thick skull that a floppy disk isn't a note pad. She still thinks the words vanish when the screen turns off.
2) Her toy lacks the lens that makes the projector work.
2) Her toy lacks the lens that makes the projector work.
I would say this was a surprising drawing, given her regular access to the equipment. Then again, this is a woman who could not draw a door connection with the way a door opens last week for the door prank story, and she has never drawn a proper toilet. Her inability to take advantage of real life to model her drawings is astounding.
I remember when Liz tripped over Farley when her glasses fogged up. The take-away from that is that at some point, you expect John to be approached by a man wearing a track suit and a war bonnet asking him if he could use the Pattermanse to film a trippy video about how clones and robots are going to kill everyone.
In the dailyverse, we have seen Michael in a private bedroom that locks with a key. WHERE is he working on this assignment, so that he is "out in the open" as he works on it?
Also, the document mysteriously vanishing again shows Lynn having absolutely no understanding of how computers work. (Though as you suggest "save early and often" would have been fully in effect.)
As I have said before, no one has been able to get her to understand what a floppy disc or thumb drive is. This means that she really does think the words vanish when the computer is turned off.
In the dailyverse, we have seen Michael in a private bedroom that locks with a key. WHERE is he working on this assignment, so that he is "out in the open" as he works on it?
The second comic strip about the dumpster implies there an open computer area in their dormitory.
Another opportunity to compare the colouring of 2025:
With the colouring of 1995:
I am completely thrown by the difference in Josef Weeder's hair colour from 1995. However, going back through the earliest Sunday comics with Josef Weeder, I can tell that Lynn was going back and forth on the subject.
Here is Josef's first Sunday appearance with a brown tint:
But later on, he shows up looking like this with blue tint:
As for the story, back in the early days of word processors, the motto was "Save early and save often." Clearly Michael had not heard this, and he went for "Only save at the very end when you are done."
That said, I enjoy seeing that Lynn did not bother to update the overhead projector because she famously used them for her chalk talks all the way until her last one a few years back, when people had to hunt for them to accommodate her.
So close and yet, it seems to be missing the basic elements of how the device works.
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1) Nobody could get it through Mrs I Have A Flipbook's thick skull that a floppy disk isn't a note pad. She still thinks the words vanish when the screen turns off.
2) Her toy lacks the lens that makes the projector work.
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2) Her toy lacks the lens that makes the projector work.
I would say this was a surprising drawing, given her regular access to the equipment. Then again, this is a woman who could not draw a door connection with the way a door opens last week for the door prank story, and she has never drawn a proper toilet. Her inability to take advantage of real life to model her drawings is astounding.
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I remember when Liz tripped over Farley when her glasses fogged up. The take-away from that is that at some point, you expect John to be approached by a man wearing a track suit and a war bonnet asking him if he could use the Pattermanse to film a trippy video about how clones and robots are going to kill everyone.
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That would have been a very interesting story. Maybe Lynn could put it into one of her new robot books.
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We could call it Pattermiroquai.
Oh. Fun fact....the town's mayor wears a sombrero and has the name Hatterson........
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What a strange coincidence!
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my dog actually did eat my homework once
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Well, I hope your dog learned something doing that.
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I'm surprised i didn't notice this earlier. In this strip Weed looks like Jughead and Shaggy had a kid. If that was physically possible.
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I could easily Lynn Johnston being influenced by both characters, since she has mentioned Archie comics in her comments before.
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She did work for a subcontractors to Hanna-Barbera so picked up their bad habits.
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Like not being funny.
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In the dailyverse, we have seen Michael in a private bedroom that locks with a key. WHERE is he working on this assignment, so that he is "out in the open" as he works on it?
Also, the document mysteriously vanishing again shows Lynn having absolutely no understanding of how computers work. (Though as you suggest "save early and often" would have been fully in effect.)
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In the dailyverse, we have seen Michael in a private bedroom that locks with a key. WHERE is he working on this assignment, so that he is "out in the open" as he works on it?
The second comic strip about the dumpster implies there an open computer area in their dormitory.
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