WTF is going on with Edda now??? STOP IT! Sean, stop encouraging this nonsense, make her stop it!
It’s getting to the point where I’m almost afraid to look at this strip.
This scare made her focus on the fact that she’s spent her entire life attached to Amos, and now she’s wondering whether that’s really what she wants for her future, too. Seth isn’t Mr. Right, he’s just Mr. Right There.
I thought this whole preganancy question was handled well. I especially liked the discussion of what “choice” means. Yes, it’s improbable that someone would fly to Vienna to talk to Gram about a pregnancy without first taking a pregnancy test, but it gave everyone a chance to think about the options without talking about them in detail. Now I’m not sure what will happen with the Edda-Amos relationship. She runs away…he returns the ring…he takes back the ring, seems sure Edda is the best…she feels bad about running away…he seems uncertain again…and so on. They decided to curb their instincts…starting tomorrow. Kinda like how I diet.
Then she confesses her attraction to Seth just in time for Amos to overhear! :smack: And talks about how knowing Amos since childhood just isn’t long enough to decide about marriage…
I dunno…Amos had a pretty crazy look in his eyes after he took the ring back from the store…maybe he plotting Edda’s murder?
Welp, here it is, twelve years later, and I’m reopening the thread to bring up another question. I just read this thread for the first time, and I had to re-familiarize myself with the pregnancy scare/proposal story arc (hard to believe it took five months to publish that).
Some thoughts on the strip on the whole, and a question for Dopers who still read it:
I recently read about some writing advice given by a well-known (even if I can’t remember his name right now) writer. He said that when writing dialog, one should read it out loud, to hear if it sounded like real people would talk (I dunno, it could have been Hemingway, or Steinbeck, or Eugene O’Neill, or Arthur Miller. Somebody in that class). Anyway, McEldowney doesn’t do that, and after twenty-some years of reading him, I’m kinda over it.
I’m also kinda over the non-linearity of Lolly and Polly’s aging. They were born four years ago, and while I can’t cavil about the fact that they were preschool toddlers within a year, I don’t feel like putting up with the way that, in the past year, they have been presented as seventeen (or so)-year olds and as middle schoolers, sometimes in defiance of linear time conventions (they’ll be seventeen one week, ten the next week, then back to seventeen a few weeks later). Add in the fact that Alistair Godalming, born in March of '23, is now seventeen himself, and I’m pretty sure that within a couple of years, one of the women is going to pop out a baby who turns out to be Thorax’s father, Pap.
I feel the whole strip has become self-indulgent in the past few years, and I’m thinking of dropping it soon (I’ve already skipped the last couple of Thorax-as-hard-boiled-detective storylines).
Before I go, though, am I the only one who thinks Alistair Godalming looks suspiciously like Amos van Hoesen?
It has dialog? I just read it for the pictures.
It has always seemed pretty self indulgent to me. I agree that my tolerance for it is waning. Lately it hasn’t seemed to have a point beyond showing Edda in a tight dress.
So it’s actually a time-travel saga?