Something Positive

Yep, only Milholland can make you snicker over crossing the line strips and then turn around and bring tears to your eyes. Kinda like life itself, isn't it?

Must... resist... luthor... joke...

Really? That's terrible.

Rory grew up while we weren't looking.

And poor Vanessa... poor. Short. Vanessa.

I'm kind of fearing that moment with my daughter, to be honest. That's the weirdest part about kids - just when you get into a certain groove when dealing with them, everything changes.

Exactly how short is she?

The navigation buttons are getting weird, but he's the March 16th comic.

Well, my daughter is a few weeks shy of her third birthday, so she hasn't gotten her height measured in a bit (that's coming at her third-year checkup). That said, at the moment, she's wearing 4T and 5T clothing, so I guess she's somewhere around 40 inches tall (based on the average size 4T clothing is meant for).

... Look, I'm not saying that I have Vanessa's concerns now; just that I feel like it's coming in the future.

And Randy apparently has an injured arm, so Odine.

The tagline is kind of poignant, "Not being able to do the one thing you love most is a new depressing." Of course, this being Randy, I half-expected a masturbation joke to follow.

Excuse me, I have my own cats to brush my cheek when I sleep - and they have opposable thumbs. You can't creep me out; I already bought my own demise-plotters.

Wait, Milholland is married?

Mortality and wife reference

Hmm... I'd swear I'd heard that before. Of course, she probably has to share custody with Danielle Corsetto.

Davan refuses to promise he'll stick around.

Tempus fugit, memento mori. I think that Davan is just self-aware and honest about the fact that he probably will not survive Vanessa. Then, there's always that dream...

I feel like I'm missing some sort of pun in the name...

Ah, I think Milholland is showing his age. I got the joke immediately, but I could see younger folks not getting it at all. Oh, by getting it, I guess I'm showing my age, too.

This is what he's referencing. They used to do a ton of commercials on cable networks (yes, even Nickelodeon, which is what I remember them best from), hawking commemorative junk (I mostly remember coins) for people who like cheesy chotchkies. From what I gather, they technically still exist as a brand name, but it's a completely different company that bought the rights to use it.

The implication, if I'm getting it right, is that guy is going to get sued to oblivion if he's dumb enough to attempt that trademark infringement.

Ah, thanks.

But if his name is Franky Lynn, shouldn't he be OK legally?

Well, there's a lot of hairsplitting involved, but the short version is, someone whose name actually is "Frankie Lynn" probably could get away with it, but only if he was actually engaging in a business that would reasonably have "Mint" in its name - either by farming mint plants or striking coins, I would imagine. And even then, the current owners of the Franklin Mint name could conceivably just drag out lawsuits to win via attrition - they would probably lose eventually, but they could just draw things out to make such a move a Pyrrhic Victory for Frankie. (For reference, there was a similar case involving a restaurateur named Norman McDonald - he was allowed to keep using the name eventually, but among other concessions, he had to use his first name in the restaurant's name too.)

And for all of that, well, even that is assuming you don't run into a miscarriage of justice. With all of that potential risk, why not just choose a different name that won't get you sued?

There's also the famous case of Microsoft vs MikeRoweSoft. And I'd forgotten about Franklin Mint... huh.

Fluffmodeus banished by the power of love?

I don't think it's "GOODBYE NEW FRIEND!" just yet. Not for good, at least.

So, he was a cheerleader, but apparently not a very good one...

And Frankie continues to be a standup guy.

Never a good thing when your psychosis apologizes for what you're going to do.

.....she's gonna stab Frankie, isn't she.....