Saturday, 5 September 2009

[dreadedcandiru2]

Let's see how Lynn ends the week; odds are that we might see a certain reprint after all; we sure aren't going to get to know why Deanna's back.

It's the reprint

Comments

[insanitypepper]

I really hate when adults pull that "best years of your life" crap on kids. For some people those are the best years. For many others, they are not.

Is Elly trying to make jazz hands in the last panel?

[clio_1]

Sooo many people in my family told me college would be the best years of my life. I spent my whole life until then working toward it, and then when I got there -- well, I liked the classes. The rest, bleah. It was only marginally better than high school, and sometimes worse because of the copious amounts of alcohol and other drugs everyone but me seemed to ingest.

So far the best years of my life have been 30 to 32. At this rate of improvement, I'll be the happiest old lady ever.

[forworse]

ITA on the 30s being the best years so far. It's as if I've finally found the age where everything makes sense. The funny thing is, I don't think I've changed as much, just that I've reached the age where the way I am fits with the age I am, so I don't feel I have to go around pretending to be something I'm not (which probably had a huge effect on why school and university never quite lived up to the expectations I had).

Does Mike look at his 30s as the best years of his life, though? He's married, living in the Pattermanse, two kids, successful albeit highly improbable career as a novelist: most people would love this life, but I think Mike probably misses his university life, living with Weed, no kids to interrupt, a girlfriend instead of a wife with whom he has a business partner-type relationship, Mrs Dingle to inspire his stories of Sheilagh, and a succession of fire trap apartments instead of a house with all the associated yard work.

[off_model]

"The next 12 years will be the best years of your life, honey, after that life isn't worth living, really take it from me, all too soon you will be married to someone you don't love, raising kids you can't stand, taking care of pets you don't want, you feel empty inside and then you start seeking solace in food but you start gaining weight and you start to feel bad about yourself so you eat more junk and soon you're caught in a vicious cycle and it's just hell, just hell, so go out there and enjoy these years while you can because it doesn't get any better, the only thing to look forward to is hearing about how others have it worse than you and I guess there's some comfort in that, but it's a bittersweet comfort that doesn't help you sleep at night."

[clio_1]

The best years of Elly's life were from when she was 6 to when she was 18? First, that's an AWFULLY big range. Things change drastically in those years -- though not so much for Elly, since she still thinks like a 6-year old. Everything is about her. Second, Elly is pathetic.

[team_kelpfroth]

The more I see these old ruins, the more I think Lynn ripped off Edward Gorey's style. Who's with me on that one?

[clio_1]

Me.

[insanitypepper]

I do see that occasionally. I'm glad other people see it too!

[karisu_sama]

Me too. Especially the Bug-Eyed Glare of Existential Terror.

[off_model]

"Oh, Michael! I still can't believe you're in grade one, it's like you completely skipped Kindergarten!"

Actually I'm a little tired so I read the strip originally as, "I can't believe you're still in grade one!" I guess that kind of works since he's supposed to be a thirty-something writer of sorts and yet here he is in elementary school.

[hoppytoad79]

She then gushes that the next twelve years will be the best years of his life.

What color is the sun in her world? I know I'm not alone in saying the best years of my life thus far were not between the ages of 5/6 and 18. After high school is when it started getting good.

I agree!

[karisu_sama]

College is when things finally started getting really good as far as I'm concerned; before that was frequently awful in several aspects.

What a terrible thing to look condemn little Michael to. Elly is setting him up to think that no matter how stressful and anxiety-ridden are the trials of childhood (and OMG they ARE), life will get no better than that and afterward it'll be all downhill.... :/

Re: I agree!

[dreadedcandiru2]

She pulled the same crap on Liz and April; that sort of explains WHY the Breath was so desperate to find a Nostache, doesn't it? Since she'd peaked when she was 19, she had to get married post haste lest she die aloooooooone.

[skeptic320]

I'm pretty sure my life hit its nadir at age eleven. Things have been steadily improving ever since.