Scrotumton, ME — accent on the “tum” — is Brooke McEldowney’s (professed) home town. Since neither Google Maps nor my handy dandy road atlas list such a place, it may be visible and/or accessible via the quantum anomaly in Thorax’s shed.
Right. I’m not surprised. It’s Friday, but the strip runs Saturday too, so we still don’t have a definite answer. I’ve had it with the geological pacing of this strip. I’ll read tomorrows and then I’m done.
I’m sure McEldowney is quaking in his boots.
There won’t be a ‘definite answer’ for, oh, maybe another week. Certainly it won’t be revealed tomorrow! On a Saturday, are you kidding???
Most comic strip artists would probably be unhappy to lose readers. But since Brooke considers many of his readers beefwits, he may not mind so much.
Well, I was half right about no reveal Wednesday, but I underestimated the glacial pacing. Reveal (given Seth’s reaction today, I’m pretty sure it’ll be “false alarm” then a week or two of “you know what *other *choice you have available that we didn’t have in my day.. birth control, you morons”) is at least a week away.
Nah, this isn’t Funky Winkerbean. Of course, if it were, it would be a 99.9999% possibility of cancer.
Huh. I guess I was wrong, there IS sort of a reveal…on a Saturday, yet. I am surprised.
I’m damned if I can figure out today’s Sunday strip. Is it connected to the ongoing storyline? If not, WTH?
Not connected: random Siamese-cat thing what’s all artistic-like. (The panels of the cartoon are supposed to represent the small attic windowpanes the cat is looking out of.)
The cat is Solange. I think he draws the best Siamese cat in the history of drawing :D.
Sunday strips rarely have anything to do with the regular storyline.
Which is not a feature unique to 9CL - it’s…very rare (if not unheard of) for Sundays to be connected to the weekly plots (sometimes even having ongoing plots of their own).
This is how Foxtrot can be reruns Mon-Sat and a new strip on Sunday, right now, for instance.
Wouldn’t the Foxtrot Sunday strip be a re-run, also? Are new Sunday strips actually being drawn???
Oh, OK< I checked and they ARE new strips on Sunday! Huh.
And finally the words are actually said - she’s not pregnant, and she kind of wanted to be. Taking bets now on whether Amos will return the ring (only wanting to make an honest woman of her or some nonsense) or pop the question anyway, and how much faffing around will go on first. I’m putting longshot money on Edda finding the ring and assuming he intends to ask her.
Word of God is that “Amos will always do the right thing.”
Yeah, but the question is, is the right thing marrying a gal who’s too immature to take a drugstore pee test before leaping to the conclusion that she must be pregnant, telling lots of people that she is, and creating tons of drama in the process?
Since she’s the protagonist, the answer is probably “yes.” I wish it was instead, “I love you but we’re both young and have a lot of maturing to do first; marriage can wait.”
Actually, that’s been the principle both Amos and Edda have (mostly) lived by for quite a while.
If there’s a theme to this latest incident*, it’s probably that (perceived) crisis makes people behave erratically.
*I’m reminded of a remark by Johnny Carson when asked by a PETA type whether he thought Charlie the Tuna was suicidal. Carson responded that he didn’t know about Charlie, but anybody who went around psychoanalyzing a fictional fish was a bit odd.
Just when I think McEldowney has completely jumped the shark of pretentious twattitude, he comes back with something I get a genuine giggle out of.
Stay of execution granted.
Amos dragged his feet on proposing from the time she announced her non-pregnancy to the time he sweated up the sheets with her again.
Edda dragged her feet on informing him of the possible pregnancy for the better part of two months.