When you can’t even snark at a comic strip (or at least, not much):
And just when you think things might be getting better…
You know it’s true…Toby is going to meet Madi! And how the Platitudes will flow, like tears in the rain…
On our way to see Toby and her cooking disaster…
Of course, Facebook’s Alan Fisher suddenly complicates the matter… “That wasn’t the deal!” “I am altering the deal. Pray I don’t alter it any further.” And for those following along in their “Empire Strikes Out” coloring book:
…which is looking suspiciously like a number of previous ones.
As if we didn’t know…introducing Mary Worth, Crappy Guidance Counselor!
Mary continues her blathering, bu t even she realizes that sometimes a different tack ought to be tried…
Come ON! What we all need is a little recreation as we all lounge poolside! And Mary’s on board with it!
And if we’re NOT going to have an honest-to-God pool party, but just splash in the pool, then the heck with you, says I! You don’t even deserve a whole Sunday comic!
Someone over at Facebook’s Comics Readers of the Comics Curmudgeon (yes, it was Fritz Goebel) suggested that Madi needed a love interest to take her mind off her problems…he even suggested the perfect paramour!
Make it up from whole cloth! (Really, it isn’t that difficult!)
Saul’s still on board (reluctantly) with teen-sitting Madi. Greta continues to thing otherwise.
Still, the current situation isn’t sitting well with some folks…
I find myself feeling bad for Saul. Getting stuck with a distant relative would be just as appealing to me (that is, not at all). I’m not as old as he is, but I am an old child, and that suited me just fine.
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Les is back home and still worrying over his film-epic-to-be…what will happen if the guy who knocked up dead Lisa (still alive) shows up on the doorstep or railroad crossing of post office? And who cares?
Nevertheless Les is beginning to see enemies everywhere…and we are obligated to oblige the jerk. Starting with…
And then:
And THEN:
And even MORE THEN!:
This spreads more insidiously that ‘rona virus!
The driver is actually Mason Jarr, following Les so he can “become” Les, in the great tradition of hack D-list movie actors everywhere! and everyone who reads this tripe asks “Who cares?”
Saul Wynter and his dog reappear (not particularly difficult, since they both live at Charterstone), and it seems they’ll be fostering a difficult teenaged relative. I don’t know where I might be taking this, but does Moy have much of an idea, either (and she’s getting paid for it!)?
The plot thickens, and Lyle (if that is his real name) delights in taking advantage of an elderly relative…heck, he probably bumped off Madi’s grandmother).
Come on, Lyle! Less chit-chat, more running for that plane! You can discuss the Madi problem with Saul when you get home…
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The Phantom keeping his clothes on while continuing to hallucinate, Andy the dog stranded miles and miles from Lost Forest, the Melonheads continuing to be Melonheads, and Mary having to deal with a frustrated Toby and/or a lonely old Saul Wynter and/or a snotty teenager?
Nope, I don’t know, either. But a Phantom/Mary Worth mashup will do for the meantime.
Kit’s been having a rough time; evidently the Spirit of Past Phantoms has been haunting him and telling him what a crummy job he’s done with his kids, his legacy, and so forth. Yeah, YOU try doing this in a purple leotard and striped undies-on-the outside!
While this has freaked out Kit at the beginning, there only so much crap anyone can deal with, even as the crap grows higher and deeper:
We just can’t leave Boney McBones hanging, can we?
Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like Kit’s leaving anytime soon. Maybe his host is lonesome…
And then some folks suggested that Boney Marony ought to start terrorizing other people (and critters). I figured going after Wilbut Weston would be too easy…
I don’t know if Kit is attempting to fight back, or if he’s just letting his Ghost with the Most set the scene.
It looks like Kit is being pretty smart and heading for the exit. Whether he succeeds is anyone’s guess (and Devil doesn’t seem confident).
What a frightening week it’s been! Kit has been harassed and harangued by a gruesome apparition…and you know what the most terrifying thing of all is?
You guessed it: those sad ‘n’ sorry saggy purple tights worn by Old Man Phantom!
Oh, boy! I think we’re finally free of the Haunted Forest of Llongo, and Kit and his buddies (and his dog. and his horse, and an elephant!) are heading to a safe place!
And yet, Guran feels the need to tell Kit the secret of the Llongo Forest, and Kit feels the need to question why he keeps hanging around the Llongo people to start with:
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