The irritating thing about Lynn's distaste for keeping track of where her characters are, where they're going and what they've done in the past is that there are opportunities that she just cannot see. We're about to be reminded of that in a big way when a salesman at a hobby show sells John on what turned into a crippling obsession that took over ( Read more... )

As you all know, there is something April does that makes me want to check her God-damned expiry date: creeping all over her friend Becky because she's a jealous little heifer who doesn't want to admit that the prettier girl makes her feel all kinds of insecure. Time and again, she's rediscovering the fact that the other person isn't trying to ( Read more... )

To continue merrily on with our look at Gordon's one-sided infatuation with a girl who he only considers worth dating because she's the stuff wet dreams are made of,I think it behooves us to remember that she's the first in a long line of female characters who were created for the specific purpose of showing us what Lynn thinks a girl shouldn't be ( Read more... )

As we know, Miss Blais seems to have it in her head that the best way to guide her students towards acceptable social behaviour is to seize upon someone her insistent love of procedure makes her see as a dangerous anarchist bent on destroying society and shaming him or her so that the other children know to avoid being this irredeemable monster. ( Read more... )

The interesting thing about Dawn's presence in Elizabeth's life is that it's going to take another two years for Lynn to realize that she should sort of replicate the pattern she set with Michael when it comes to supplying her with friends. Before this, we had to deal with two failed characters named Melody and Paula who served two purposes. The ( Read more... )

Now that Lynn has brought the Enjo family into the mix, I'd like to remind you all of how she stupidly squandered characters who could have enriched the strip in order to meet her first stupid, long-term reality-denying end-goal of bringing Connie and Lawrence back hooooooooome so that she could deny the truth that is change and mortality ( Read more... )

As I implied yesterday, April isn't actually missing too much by not having to endure hand-wringing, pants-wetting simpering from Elly about the direction her life is taking, Elizabeth running her stupid mouth about how horrible it is that actions have consequences, Mike being a patronizing dickchoad, John harrumphing about her attitude or Deanna ( Read more... )

One of the most annoying phenomena of the strip's end game is the steady contraction of the Patterson's social circle. As we return our focus to the domestic sphere, their social lives have slowly withered and died until they only keep themselves company. What makes this worse is that Lynn seems to have adopted an annoying practice: creating ( Read more... )