Can you tell that the Kelpfroths are evil? Let's see, they're hideously ugly, she wears all black, he wears a wife-beater, they SMOKE, he has exposed chest hair, she has scary eyebrows, he breaks their own ceiling trying to make a point. Yeah, I think they're evil.
And in the last panel: Lynn Johnston thinks the cliche "Knock on wood" is a clever title? This explains a lot about the strip's recent days, I think. (Plus, if it's not in fact the title, but, as I suspect, the story's headline, Mike is unlikely to have written it himself anyway.)
I wonder if the K's will fume for a day and then realize the error of their ways, thanks to Mike's skewering prose, and come crawling on hands and knees for forgiveness, begging to bounce Robin on their knees and take Merrie to the park? Where they'll promptly leave her! OK, maybe not, but don't you get it, they're EEEEE-vil?
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4 comments:
If Mike really wants to fight back against the Kelpfroth Broom of Doom, he could borrow one of Lynn's anvils and drop it on the floor.
This isn't a comic anymore, it's a hideous caricature.
You're right, most people don't realize that reporters don't write their own headlines -- they're written by an editor and the only criteria is that they fit the space allotted.
--PJ
/24 years working at newspapers as a graphic artist
I am ashamed to say this but I am kind of over the comics.
Today's just makes me mad. Do you know how much pharmacists make? A lot. I'm willing to bet it's way more than a journalist brings in.
Their money troubles exist solely to give Michael something to look like a martyr over.
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