Maybe you saw this in the paper this morning. It is a thing of beauty: Lynn Johnston nails the kids expressions (and Farley's too), there's a clear narrative trajectory that is not obvious or predictable from panel to panel, and it's really funny. Plus, in these reprints of older strips, Michael resembles my nephew Nick and Lizzy looks like my niece Emma (if they only had a dog!). So I take back the heading-- it is perfect.
Saturday, November 21, 2009
A Near Perfect Comic Strip
Maybe you saw this in the paper this morning. It is a thing of beauty: Lynn Johnston nails the kids expressions (and Farley's too), there's a clear narrative trajectory that is not obvious or predictable from panel to panel, and it's really funny. Plus, in these reprints of older strips, Michael resembles my nephew Nick and Lizzy looks like my niece Emma (if they only had a dog!). So I take back the heading-- it is perfect.
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One of my favorite For Better or Worse comics ran on an early Sunday where the mom finds Michael feeding his broccoli to (you presume) the dog under the table. Turns out it is Elizabeth - the final panel shows the mom then trying to feed Elizabeth her vegies under the table too. Too funny for me LOL
Lil' Sis
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