I have to admit to feeling frustrated by this storyline. Especially after Kortney threatened April earlier this fall. I thought for sure that Elly would go into “mother hen” mode to protect her child. Moira’s prediction is probably forboding, and it might just be Moira who gets to do it, because Elly and John are getting ready to take their annual vacation–a cruise I think.
I suspect Moira’s going to check the validity of those miraculously found checks and receipt – and confront Elly with the truth, which will force her to take action.
The two dogs coexisted in the Patterson household for at least a year before Farley’s demise. The way Edgar happened was, Connie, the next door neighbor (friend to Elly and mom to Lawrence, the Gay Guy) had a dog named Sera. April knew how to unlatch the gate between the two yards, and wasn’t caught until Connie freaked over Sera’s absence, because Sera was in heat. The frantic search ended when Farley and Sera were found nuzzling each other. “That’s the first time I’ve ever seen a dog smile!”
So Edgar was never formally adopted; the Pattersons simply felt obligated to accept one of the puppies. He was not a replacement, he was an addition.
htns: I do read Boondocks. I don’t agree with Aaron McGruder on every issue, but I do appreciate the way he expresses himself!
Just to be contrary, I’ll predict that the “cheques” (learn to spell up there, willya?) will prove genuine, having been hidden by a spiteful Moira to frame Kortney, who wasn’t going to be fired for what she really *had * done. Moira will be the one to leave, but voluntarily, and without admitting her tactic.
Give Lynn a *little * credit for understanding human nature, people.
I’d hope that this week the Kortney storyline would be resolved. But I just saw today’s strip online and it looks like Johnston is going with April and the band again.
Uh…you do realise that the strip in question is Canadian, and that’s the correct spelling throughout the entire English speaking world except the USA?
Not trying to troll here, I just don’t like it when people think that American orthography is the world standard. 
Ah, but you’ve forgotten the strip that preceded Elly’s agonizing over the intended firing – the one where Moira makes some comment to Kortney about her being on the way out, and Kortney stomps off to her basement lair muttering about “Not if I have enough time to do something about it,” or words to that effect. I thought then “Aha! She’s going to forge something, or alter the computer records, to cover herself.”
:: Looking back over posts, hers and others’, in this thread ::
Good grief, folks! Is this the Pit, or Soap Opera Daily?
:: Goes back to waiting eagerly for next development in Kortney storyline ::
Eddy, maybe, but it gives the kid a lot of credit for forgery skills to be able to pull it off - several different document styles, or multiple stolen forms, etc. I just don’t see it. But I do see a pretty long and elaborate setup for so obvious a denouement. There has to be more.
htns, you mean the American way of life isn’t what the rest of the world aspires to? 
I’ve been a fan of the strip for a long time and I would like to see this plotline ended soon.
My prediction:
Elly will find out that Kortney has been ripping her off and fire her; will accept that Moira was right and make her the store manager because “she’s better at the job.”
Possibly Elly will sell the store to Moira, or keep it but step down as manager.
FTR, Lyndon Johnson is probably already in Hell.
What? This rant is about inconsistencies in a COMIC STRIP?!?!?
Which explains why Eric, Liz’s two-timing ex-bf, looked like exactly the sort of guy you’d want your daughter to bring home.
I think Lynn Johnston’s finally lost some of her zip the past few years, but how many daily cartoonists (or creative persons of any sort, for that matter) can stay at the top of their game for over two decades? Especially if they’re in a line of work where continuous output is part of the job requirement.
I agree with the gentleman from Marietta: y’all are taking this way too seriously.
It’s a special hell inwhich LBJ must forever wear Haegger™ slacks that cut him from his “nutsack to his bunghole.”
Here’s a transcript of the tape where he said that, more or less. 
Ah, but Eric was TOO handsome, the better to overwhelm Liz’s good sense with his seductive, philandering ways. If he’d looked like a mug, the story line wouldn’t have worked, eh?
As to Kortney not having the skills to forge checks (sorry, I forget who brought that up on page 1), it’s not that hard with software like Quicken to create blank checks in a variety of styles. The receipt for the “donation” to the church would no doubt be on store letterhead – readily available to Kortney. Who could probably disguise her handwriting well enough to fool someone without forensic handwriting anaylsis training – especially if that someone didn’t want to see a forgery.
My theory: Elly will run into someone from the church and mention the calendars, be met with “But we didn’t receive any from your store!” and dig up the shocking truth.
Yes, we ARE taking this way too seriously, aren’t we? I haven’t spent this much time dissecting story lines since Dark Shadows.
I’m just relieved to learn that I’m not the only one who has been worrying about the Kortney plotline!
Funny how fictional characters can become a part of one’s life, innit?
Heh.
When I saw the strip last Friday, with Kortney calling Elly down to the basement, I had a deep sense of foreboding; that violence might be about to ensue. I went so far as to go out on Saturday and buy the paper, so I could find out what happened (usually I skip the Saturday funnies).
But Bryan Ekers brings up some truly harrowing possibilities about how that scene could have played out. :eek:
You too? I had the same feeling; or that Elly would discover that Kortney had quit and had trashed the computer(s) and all the records on her way out.
Good lord Rilchiam, we are talking about **fiction ** here. Who wants to read a story in which the characters behave exactly as you would behave?
It seems to me that Ms. Johnson is being true to the characters. Her obligation is to write a good story that keeps us in suspense for a while, then resolve the story line and move on. It sounds like you’re asking her to write a public service announcement for small business owners.
Elly is behaving the way she always behaves; her character is driving the story line. That’s good writing.
April will be playing with her Fuzzy Dog, when from under a bush it will pull a package with Kortney’s diary, receipts showing all thefts, accounts where the money is deposited, 10 kilos of smack, syringes, and a list of clients in the local middle school.
April will run up yelling “Mommy, Mommy”, it will be 2 hours before Elly gets of the phone to talk to her.
Meanwhile, Miora has Spiked Kortney’s Lebatts and has dragged her skanky unconscious butt to Elly’s dentist husband office. (He’s off somewhere on a bender banging his chippy receptionist, but that comes later).
Once Moira has Kortney strapped into the dental chair with a traction head brace, she waits until the Ruffies wear off before playing some brutal “truth or dental roulette”. The screams alarm the other building tenants, but she’s locked & barred the door.
By the time Elly catches on, however, it’s too late. The firemen have just axed through the door and Moira is found drilling into the corpse-skull of Kortney. Blood and pieces of cracked molars decorate the floors and walls while the smell of burned teeth lies heavy in the air. Moira is now hopelessly insane. April is massively traumatized and needs therapy for the rest of her life and the fuzzy dog simply Has to be put down.
Seeking solace from her grief, Elly turns to her son and his roommate (as her husband meanwhile, had been found dead…castrated in a red-light district by an Elaine Wuornos wannabe). In a cruel twist of fate, Elly finds herself in what can only be described as the sickest incestuous Menage-A-Trois in the history of comic-dom (or at least this side of ‘Fritz the Cat’).
But you see, it’s not their fault. All of their minds had been controlled for years by that Rabbit…that Fluffy Evil Rabbit!!!
(Cue spin-off of “Rabbit-Demon”, a new daily comic penned by none other than Todd McFarlane of ‘Spawn’ fame)
ARRRRR I warned ye about that rabit!