OK, I was too busy to post much, but I had to pop on for the other "For Better or For Worse" fans to say...the hell?
So Howard goes from slightly creepy co-worker to stalker to would-be rapist the first time he and Liz are left alone at work, apparently having given no clue of his weirdness to any co-workers except Liz before now. (Or has he been raised in a male-only commune, and this is his only exposure to women, and he goes nuts? Who knows?)
And in the last panel, I thought: YAY! Liz grabbed him around the neck and is strangling him herself! Women power! But then if you look at the color version, it's apparent it's a third person's arm (and not someone clad in the ugly orange of the landscaping business). Is it John? Elly? Mike? Warren the AWOL helicopter pilot? Creepy 80 year old Anthony?
My favorite guess from FOOBiverse is that it's bitchy Therese, redeeming herself with secret martial-arts knowledge. Go, Therese!
But it's probably Mike or Anthony. Sigh.
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Don't be silly. Women can't defend themselves. They need menfolk for that. Come to think of it, why is she at work when she should be home cooking dinner for the man she clearly should have? (gag!)
I used to read FBoW faithfully, but now I can't understand what I ever saw in it. It's just one baffling storyline after another.
Yeah, I thought the same thing, down to the "Women power!"... and then realized, no, only a MAN can save a woman from being raped in the middle of the day at her workplace.
And naturally, it'll be Anthony Mitty, because who else would be hanging around?
GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH.
NO NO NO - it is John! After all the talk of his emasculation at the hands of Elly, it is LJ's way to re-establish his manhood.
I am sekritly hoping it's Lawrence. It would be a good thing for the gay guy to get to kick ass, although I agree it would be better if Liz did it herself.
Liz (except not that one)
I thought he was WAY more than slightly creepy from the very first time. My best bud is a parole officer, and she says she sees cases like this all the time, guy was fine until there was a girl working the same place who threatened his masculinity, and then he went nutbar. To me, that makes even more scary. It happens all the time, that's why everyone always says, "But he seemed like such a nice, normal guy," and why so many rapists get off scott-free. No one believes the victim, because the guy is just such a nice pillar of society! He would never!
SCARY.
Alison E.
It's clearly Shannon. They just forgot all her damned ellipses.
"Is... this... rough enough... for... you?"
"Pleeeeeeeaase! Somebody hellllllp me!" Way to intimidate a rapist, Liz.
/i miss the old, funny FBOFW
Don't mean to make light of
RL rape situations, and I do think this sort of stuff happens all the time, but....
...Puh LEAAASSEEEE!
Okay, here my choices.
I hope it's Deputy Leo, because he is such a hottie, but I won't be sad if it's Logan, though I am not so big on Duncan. Wait! That's the answer to the question of who is at Veronica Mars' door.
I think it is John, wish it were Warren, hope it's not Anthony (I hate the 80-year old Anthony still pines for Liz storyline), would be okay with Lawrence, and love the idea that is Shannon.
I have to admit, I hate comic strips that go from gag-a-day to serious dramtic Lifetime-Original-Movie style soap operas. I'm all for them if that's what they started out like, but seriously. I'll bet Garfield is next in line for this.
'Course, I think comics have gone downhill in general. You know I wish they'd print? Those really old 'Blondie' comics from the 1930s, back when the story was about how the wealthy socialite Dagwood Bumstead had married this poor lower-class girl and she was always going around saying inappropriate things to the rich people. Even when the jokes weren't at their best, the weird vintageness of it always makes up for it.
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