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!!A Retcon?
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!!Subverting the ComicBookTime
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!!About the art style
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!!ImproperlyParanoid?
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!!"Animation" in an otherwise still strip
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!!The subject of their jobs
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!!Strange Parents being Stranger In-Laws
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* Micheal and Deanna's respective careers as a freelance writer and a pharmacist. Doing freelance work doesn't exactly bring a steady income, especially for supporting a family on. Pharmacists actually make a lot of money. There is something wrong with this picture, but considering the sexist views of the comic, I probably shouldn't be surprised by this.
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* Micheal Michael and Deanna's respective careers as a freelance writer and a pharmacist. Doing freelance work doesn't exactly bring a steady income, especially for supporting a family on. Pharmacists actually make a lot of money. There is something wrong with this picture, but considering the sexist views of the comic, I probably shouldn't be surprised by this.
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** Even in the original versions of those early strips, John was often chauvinistic, insensitive, and sometimes borderline stupid. She really didn't have to retool them very much to make him unlikeable! (You could make a case that this is ''EarlyInstallmentWeirdness'', as he was a very different character from the mid-80s onward.
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** Even in the original versions of those early strips, John was often chauvinistic, insensitive, and sometimes borderline stupid. She really didn't have to retool them very much to make him unlikeable! (You could make a case that this is ''EarlyInstallmentWeirdness'', as he was a very different character from the mid-80s onward. )
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** Even in the original versions of those early strips, John was often chauvinistic, insensitive, and sometimes borderline stupid. She really didn't have to retool them very much to make him unlikeable! (You could make a case that this is ''EarlyInstallmentWeirdness'', as he was a very different character from the mid-80s onward.
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** How many other newspaper comics actually had time ''progress'' in real-time? Yeah.... I didn't think so.... that's one of the reasons the strip stood out. it took how long until Funky Winkerbean actually started moving?
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** But Elly pushed it too, making it one of the rare things they saw eye-to-eye on. There's even a strip showing April fretting over the notion of Anthony and Liz cheating on their wife/boyfriend while Elly and John celebrate in the background -- and since April's TheUnfavorite, [[TheComplainerIsAlwaysWrong readers aren't meant to agree with her]].
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** But Elly pushed it too, making it one of the rare things they saw eye-to-eye on. There's even a strip showing April fretting over the notion of Anthony and Liz cheating on their wife/boyfriend while Elly and John celebrate in the background -- and since April's TheUnfavorite, TheUnfavourite, [[TheComplainerIsAlwaysWrong readers aren't meant to agree with her]].
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** Because she like the idea of a realtime comic?
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** Because she like liked the idea of a realtime comic?
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** To expand on that: Why are most of the adult female characters so frumpy? Especially Ellie. Middle age is hardly one foot in the grave" anymore, so why does Ellie have to be so drawn so unattractively and act so old? The only attractive one is Therese - oh wait -she's the ''evil'' career woman who didn't want to have a baby!
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** To expand on that: Why are most of the adult female characters so frumpy? Especially Ellie. Middle age is hardly one "one foot in the grave" anymore, so why does Ellie Elly have to be so drawn so unattractively and act so old? The only attractive one is Therese - oh wait -she's the ''evil'' career woman who didn't want to have a baby!
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** Anthony talked her out of pressing charges, ostintainably so he could get her safely home to her parents sooner and she could tell them what happened... though instead of doing just that, he proceeded to take her to the park and dump his DramaBomb on her. WordOfGod is she never intended to have Howard charged for anything, and was surprised people actually ''wanted'' her to address what happened after the NearRapeExperience, so the trial was purely fanservice.
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** Anthony talked her out of pressing charges, ostintainably ostensibly so he could get her safely home to her parents sooner and she could tell them what happened... though instead of doing just that, he proceeded to take her to the park and dump his DramaBomb on her. WordOfGod is she never intended to have Howard charged for anything, and was surprised people actually ''wanted'' her to address what happened after the NearRapeExperience, so the trial was purely fanservice.
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** Technically it ''does'' add animation, as the eyes are being animated to blink. That's ''all'' the animation it added, though, and it had the side effect of being startling at first, then kinda creepy afterwards. The real question is why she felt the need to add any kind of animation to the strips at all.
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**Worse, in the [[http://catalog.fborfw.com/indexdate.php?q=2008-08-31&Submit=Search epilogue strip]] that reveals the characters' futures, it's stated that Deanna gives up being a pharmacist to start a "small sewing school". That would likely reduce her income quite a bit.
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** Charges were pressed. He was put on trial and it was discovered he had attempted to rape other women. But he got off easy in the end with a two year sentence, which Liz naturally wasn't pleased about.
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**Anthony didn't talk Liz out of pressing charges, but on the other hand he didn't do anything to facilitate it either. When he caught Howard assaulting Liz, he grabbed him and ordered him to apologize and go away. This was poor judgment on Anthony's part -- he should have kept Howard there and had Liz call the police to arrest him there -- but most likely it was the result of failing to think clearly in a crisis rather than a deliberate decision. Liz did eventually file charges against Howard.
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** Putting the strip into realtime was probably the best idea Lynn Johnston ever had.
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* Why does Lynn Johnston think that making some of the characters blink will add "animation" to the strip? It just looks creepy and startling, to [[Tropers/EmilyG this troper]] anyway.
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* Why does Lynn Johnston think that making some of the characters blink will add "animation" to the strip? It just looks creepy and startling, to [[Tropers/EmilyG this troper]] anyway.
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*** This is probably a reflection of how Johnston feels about herself -- Elly reflected her own personality and appearance. Though oddly, Johnston never looks anywhere NEAR as overweight as she acts like she is. She says she's overweight in real life, but she looks like any other older lady, and looks actually kind of thin for her age. So... low self-esteem is the answer, I guess?
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** To expand on that: Why are most of the adult female characters so frumpy? Especially Ellie. Middle age is hardly one foot in the grave" anymore, so why does Ellie have to be so drawn so unattractively and act so old? The only attractive one is Therese - oh wait -she's the ''evil'' career woman who didn't want to have a baby!
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** Johnston's just blind to her own faults. After all, Therese was one of those horrible ''liberated'' females... surely no one could ever view a proper woman like ''her'' that way. A lot of people are that way.
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* In the fridge section, it says that Elizabeth was assaulted by Howard and no charges against him were pressed. Isn't that kinda terrible, the woman almost raped and she got no legal help? I haven't read the series mostly just saw the cartoon so could someone explain this to me? Did they plug in a PSA for RAINN?
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* In the fridge section, it says that Elizabeth was assaulted by Howard and no charges against him were pressed. Isn't that kinda terrible, the woman was almost raped and she got no legal help? I haven't read the series mostly just saw the cartoon so could someone explain this to me? Did they plug in a PSA for RAINN?
** Anthony talked her out of pressing charges, ostintainably so he could get her safely home to her parents sooner and she could tell them what happened... though instead of doing just that, he proceeded to take her to the park and dump his DramaBomb on her. WordOfGod is she never intended to have Howard charged for anything, and was surprised people actually ''wanted'' her to address what happened after the NearRapeExperience, so the trial was purely fanservice.
** Anthony talked her out of pressing charges, ostintainably so he could get her safely home to her parents sooner and she could tell them what happened... though instead of doing just that, he proceeded to take her to the park and dump his DramaBomb on her. WordOfGod is she never intended to have Howard charged for anything, and was surprised people actually ''wanted'' her to address what happened after the NearRapeExperience, so the trial was purely fanservice.
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* In the fridge section, it says that Elizabeth was assaulted by Howard and no charges against him were pressed. Isn't that kinda terrible, the woman almost raped and she got no legal help? I haven't read the series mostly just saw the cartoon so could someone explain this to me? Did they plug in a PSA for RAINN?
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** But don't forget, Anthony has no hoooomme!
