# Rose is Rose **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 2, 2002, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rose-is-rose/122004 "2002-08-02T12:47:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2002, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rose-is-rose/122004/1 "2002-08-02T12:47:09Z")
Help settle a debate between Friend Across Town and myself. In the comic strip Rose is Rose, Rose is occasionally seen as a biker. Not even a biker “chick”, but a biker in her own right, all bad, with the leather and spikes. He claims that Rose really **was** a biker before she became a mom/housewife, and those panels are flashbacks. I say, bull-dookey, that’s her alter ego or suppressed desire or whatever you call it. So who’s right? ---
**Author:** ![screech-owl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@screech-owl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/screech-owl)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2002, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rose-is-rose/122004/2 "2002-08-02T13:04:05Z")
(One of my favorite cartoons.) It’s an alter-ego thing - she has also turned into a little girl (when being sniffing play-doh and other positive remembrances of childhood), become a bear (protection her cub/son, when interviewing potential baby-sitters), a prairie girl (enjoying the ‘simple life’), and a prisoner in her ‘dungeon of resentment’. Mmmmmm. Rattlesnake chili. Yum. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2002, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rose-is-rose/122004/3 "2002-08-02T13:17:53Z")
Alter ego, definitely. One of the best – and certainly the most underrated – comic strip out there. ---
**Author:** ![Sunshine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Sunshine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunshine)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2002, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rose-is-rose/122004/4 "2002-08-02T14:42:16Z")
Ditto what **screech-owl** said. I love this comic! Especially when Pasquale’s guardian angel grows all big to protect him. ---
**Author:** ![Ferrous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Ferrous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferrous)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2002, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rose-is-rose/122004/5 "2002-08-02T16:36:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by RealityChuck \* > \*\*Alter ego, definitely. > > One of the best – and certainly the most underrated – comic strip out there. \*\* Agreed on both points. The art in that strip is simply outstanding. Although the subject matter is often a bit too cutesy for my taste. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2002, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rose-is-rose/122004/6 "2002-08-02T16:42:00Z")
No, Rose isn’t really a biker. Next you’re going to tell me you think Pasquale can really pilot a spaceship. ---
**Author:** ![MachV](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@MachV](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MachV)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2002, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rose-is-rose/122004/7 "2002-08-02T17:00:58Z")
mmmmm…Rose is sooo hot! (especially in biker-mode) That is all. ---
**Author:** ![lawoot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/35a633/32.png) [@lawoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lawoot)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2002, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rose-is-rose/122004/8 "2002-08-02T17:09:18Z")
from the [Rose is Rose](http://www.comiczone.com/comics/roseisrose/html/cast_RoseisRose.html) Meet the Characters page at [comics.com](http://comics.com): > [@](#): > > Vicki: > > Rose’s punk, biker alter ego. Sometimes a girl needs to get away - as a whole other person. Vicki doesn’t have to make dinner or feed the cat, she just hits the open road…for a few minutes at a time. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2002, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rose-is-rose/122004/9 "2002-08-02T21:23:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by mobo85 \* > \*\*No, Rose isn’t really a biker. > > Next you’re going to tell me you think Pasquale can really pilot a spaceship. \*\* I don’t think any such thing; Friend Across Town does! Thanks for the info, though.