You would think a man with so few teeth would have a little more humility. It does appear that Lynn found a new pattern for her assistant to cut out and trim down for the man's sweater.
The flyers are interesting: Gums: The Unsung Heroes, Flossing Made Easy, Smile, The Joy of Brushing {maybe}.
What I do notice is that here at the beginning, there is a Pharmacy in the building. I would say that one day Deanna would work there because Deanna does work in John's same building, but the title of the business changes before then, and they add a lot of brickwork.
It may sound like John gave Deanna the job, and that would probably be true. Deanna does not start off there. I do like the idea that Milborough is such a busy city that an old man can go to the street and call out "Taxi!" with the expectation that this would work.
Meanwhile back in 2000, it was stories like this which made me think that Deanna was completely uninterested in Michael. In retrospect, it is as if she is saying, "I know you are not going to make any money as a writer because you are terrible at it, so I can't marry you until I get the job that is going to pay the bills you will never be able to pay."
1. It's not funny that an old man apparently forgets what he's doing and hails a taxi when asked to wait 15 minutes.
2. I swear, if I had a dime for every "this opportunity suddenly sprung up out of nowhere so that's why I got this job just when I needed it" story in this strip, I'd be a millionaire. Lynn is just incapable of showing her characters struggle with any REAL problems or acquire jobs in any realistic way. Everything just falls into their laps. It's just ridiculous.
3. What's that stupid look on Deanna's face in the last panel? She looks like her head is melting off her body. Is that supposed to be coy or clever? Deanna, you want to marry Michael. You can't pass as either. You're just an idiot with no self-esteem.
1) Insensitive and ignorant jokes about a scourge of mankind are at least not this week's Luann wherein Dumbfuck Evans yells FOOLISH NINETEEN YEAR OLD GIRL! EMBRACE DEATH AS A FRIEND!
2) Lynn doesn'twant to admit that pity and sexism are why she has a career.
2. I swear, if I had a dime for every "this opportunity suddenly sprung up out of nowhere so that's why I got this job just when I needed it" story in this strip, I'd be a millionaire. Lynn is just incapable of showing her characters struggle with any REAL problems or acquire jobs in any realistic way. Everything just falls into their laps. It's just ridiculous.
Lynn Johnston got her syndicate contract in much this way and even though she is aware that it did not just drop in her lap, she seems to like the idea of that and puts it in her comic strip over and over again. She writes things about how her 3 cartoon books just happened to get into the hands of the syndicate as they were looking for female cartoonists, when the reality of the matter is that the president and editor of Meadowbook, Bruce Lansky, submitted them to the syndicate on her behalf with his recommendation when he found out they were looking for female cartoonists. She owes him a huge debt of gratitude, but almost never mentions him in her biographies.
Here is the quote from The Comic Art of Lynn Johnston:
My three little books had found their way to the desk of Jim Andrews, who, with the success of Cathy Guisewite’s Cathy, was looking for a cartoonist to do a strip on family life from a woman’s point of view. He wanted something contemporary, a little controversial perhaps. Based on the work they had seen, Jim and his associates thought I might be capable.
It was only until 2018 when Lynn appeared on the Great Big Beautiful Podcast, on GeekDad.com., with Jamie Green and Justin Connors where she talked about how one of the publishers of her books sent them to the syndicate and even then she did not mention his name.
As a pharmacy tech, I interpreted it as a dig at how long it takes when the (pharmacist/tech/cashier) says 15 minutes. He said he'd got and get a cup of tea. He meant he'd go home for it.
That first strip depicts a strawman who does not exist. In my country, missing a medical appointment without at least 24 hours notice lands you a $50 fee, if not more. And missing an appointment and being told that you can be fit in in an hour is like being handed a job because someone suddenly just quit and yes here's the job you start tomorrow- it's unbelievably lucky and nobody would complain about it.
I don't know why all of her characters have to be carried through life on litters of their own (including Elly, who acts as if she's the litter-bearer at all times.)
The idea is that ambition is a horrible thing because it gets in the way of being "nice" which is laughable given that she confuses being a passive-aggressive ass with being kind and loving. Mike only says that he's a bug on a windshield because he has to deal with the fact that he has to think about how people react to his traipsing around in a blank void where other people's feelings aren't really real. It never occurs to him to actually listen to the cruel, hurtful words because doing so would mean that he isn't a victim.
Look at him in this strip- just staring into the void as his girlfriend tells him important things. My ex would have torn me a new one if I just daydreamed while she tried to talk to me about something important. Deanna thinks it's cute and thought-bubbles "Writers! Tee hee!"
You would think a man with so few teeth would have a little more humility. It does appear that Lynn found a new pattern for her assistant to cut out and trim down for the man's sweater.
The flyers are interesting: Gums: The Unsung Heroes, Flossing Made Easy, Smile, The Joy of Brushing {maybe}.
What I do notice is that here at the beginning, there is a Pharmacy in the building. I would say that one day Deanna would work there because Deanna does work in John's same building, but the title of the business changes before then, and they add a lot of brickwork.
It may sound like John gave Deanna the job, and that would probably be true. Deanna does not start off there. I do like the idea that Milborough is such a busy city that an old man can go to the street and call out "Taxi!" with the expectation that this would work.
Meanwhile back in 2000, it was stories like this which made me think that Deanna was completely uninterested in Michael. In retrospect, it is as if she is saying, "I know you are not going to make any money as a writer because you are terrible at it, so I can't marry you until I get the job that is going to pay the bills you will never be able to pay."
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Is it difficult to beat the romance of "I said we could get married if I get this job!" Maybe
"I said we could get married if can lance this boil!" or
"I said we could get married if I get a nose job" or
"I said we could get married if I you can stop looking at the word balloons and look at me instead."
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Also, 'jokes' about senility are a slap in the face to everyone who has a relative with Alzheimer's.
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Their faces got slapped a lot with Grandpa Jim.
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1. It's not funny that an old man apparently forgets what he's doing and hails a taxi when asked to wait 15 minutes.
2. I swear, if I had a dime for every "this opportunity suddenly sprung up out of nowhere so that's why I got this job just when I needed it" story in this strip, I'd be a millionaire. Lynn is just incapable of showing her characters struggle with any REAL problems or acquire jobs in any realistic way. Everything just falls into their laps. It's just ridiculous.
3. What's that stupid look on Deanna's face in the last panel? She looks like her head is melting off her body. Is that supposed to be coy or clever? Deanna, you want to marry Michael. You can't pass as either. You're just an idiot with no self-esteem.
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1) Insensitive and ignorant jokes about a scourge of mankind are at least not this week's Luann wherein Dumbfuck Evans yells FOOLISH NINETEEN YEAR OLD GIRL! EMBRACE DEATH AS A FRIEND!
2) Lynn doesn'twant to admit that pity and sexism are why she has a career.
3) As I said, it's in a ditch off of the 401.
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2. I swear, if I had a dime for every "this opportunity suddenly sprung up out of nowhere so that's why I got this job just when I needed it" story in this strip, I'd be a millionaire. Lynn is just incapable of showing her characters struggle with any REAL problems or acquire jobs in any realistic way. Everything just falls into their laps. It's just ridiculous.
Lynn Johnston got her syndicate contract in much this way and even though she is aware that it did not just drop in her lap, she seems to like the idea of that and puts it in her comic strip over and over again. She writes things about how her 3 cartoon books just happened to get into the hands of the syndicate as they were looking for female cartoonists, when the reality of the matter is that the president and editor of Meadowbook, Bruce Lansky, submitted them to the syndicate on her behalf with his recommendation when he found out they were looking for female cartoonists. She owes him a huge debt of gratitude, but almost never mentions him in her biographies.
Here is the quote from The Comic Art of Lynn Johnston:
My three little books had found their way to the desk of Jim Andrews, who, with the success of Cathy Guisewite’s Cathy, was looking for a cartoonist to do a strip on family life from a woman’s point of view. He wanted something contemporary, a little controversial perhaps. Based on the work they had seen, Jim and his associates thought I might be capable.
It was only until 2018 when Lynn appeared on the Great Big Beautiful Podcast, on GeekDad.com., with Jamie Green and Justin Connors where she talked about how one of the publishers of her books sent them to the syndicate and even then she did not mention his name.
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That first strip depicts a strawman who does not exist. In my country, missing a medical appointment without at least 24 hours notice lands you a $50 fee, if not more. And missing an appointment and being told that you can be fit in in an hour is like being handed a job because someone suddenly just quit and yes here's the job you start tomorrow- it's unbelievably lucky and nobody would complain about it.
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Lynn has never had to pay a fee for blowing off an appointment so since it's something someone else dealt with, it cannot exist.
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As I've said before- the aliens in Nathan Pyle's strip have a better grasp of how things work than Lynn does.
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That's because she thinks that she's funny, cute and charming when she expects to be carried through life on a litter.
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I don't know why all of her characters have to be carried through life on litters of their own (including Elly, who acts as if she's the litter-bearer at all times.)
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The idea is that ambition is a horrible thing because it gets in the way of being "nice" which is laughable given that she confuses being a passive-aggressive ass with being kind and loving. Mike only says that he's a bug on a windshield because he has to deal with the fact that he has to think about how people react to his traipsing around in a blank void where other people's feelings aren't really real. It never occurs to him to actually listen to the cruel, hurtful words because doing so would mean that he isn't a victim.
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Look at him in this strip- just staring into the void as his girlfriend tells him important things. My ex would have torn me a new one if I just daydreamed while she tried to talk to me about something important. Deanna thinks it's cute and thought-bubbles "Writers! Tee hee!"
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