Poor Elly! She bugs me sometimes, but what can she possibly be thinking after this outpouring from Liz.
The old Elly (and, the old FBOFW, for that matter) would not have been able to get past "Howard attacked me" (does Elly even know who Howard is?). But this Elly apparently sits stunned through the whole deluge.
She not only hears that her daughter was attacked (and we get some exposition: Howard was fired -- duh -- and Liz WILL be going to the police, thankfully), but that married father Anthony still loves her, and that Elly could soon have a French-speaking step-grandbaby.
That's a heck of a lot for any mother, not to mention any comic-strip audience, to inhale all at once. And while it strains believability that Liz would come home from her near-rape and near-proposal and still have wits enough to actually make a casserole for dinner, this is the Pattersons we're talking about.
And I have to admit I kind of liked the last panel. Elly's expression kind of sums up the way the FBOFW audience has been feeling for the past week "What the hell just happened where did this all come from and do I get to take a breath NOW?"
Whatever will Saturday bring?
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And we still didn't find out what Liz said to Looking-Older-Than-John-Patterson Anthony.
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Signed:
Not happy in New Hampshire.
Saturday will probably bring a strip about Iris and Grandpa, of course!
Lord, Gael, you are my secret internet girlfriend for posting on this strip. FBOFW is my secret comic vice, and your commentary is priceless.
I wonder if the reference to police was from the pressure that Lynn got from outraged readers, pointing out that the storyline was getting a bit too 1950's?
Well, considering that she drew the strips weeks in advance, probably not.
Yeah, I feel cheated that we NEVER heard (and may never hear) what Liz said back to that. Dayum.
What really bothers me is that Elly didn't collapse until after:
Her daughter reports a sexual assault? No...
Her daughter reports a married man made a pass at her?> No...
Her daughter reports she "burned the butt" out of the casserole? Ding, ding ding!
Priorities!
Well, to pick nits, Liz didn't have her wits about her to make a casserole. She had her wits about her enough to try to heat one that Elly made. And not quite enough about her to avoid "burn(ing) the butt off" it. (Yet, casseroles don't even have butts. Poor, poor Liz.)
I agree with T - we're going back over to Iris and Gran'pa, or maybe Deanna and Mike, or maybe to the pets. (Although there are those who would say this strip has already gone to the dogs. Rimshot.)
keepergirl - until a couple days ago there was. It was removed under the orders of Lynn Johnston and her brigade of lawyers.
She will talk to the cat then it's off to April at the farm.
I didn't quite understand the expression "I burned the butt off your casserole."
I guess Elly must be the one who put the ass in cASSerole.
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