Things are getting a bit (more) steamy at 9 Chickweed Lane over the past couple of days. Our protagonists, Edda and Amos, are really getting into it. Do you think this will turn out to be a dream sequence?
Those two need to just get a room already.
By the way, I think the animator is a woman, but why do I always picture some horny 52 year old man breathing heavily as he draws sexy pictures of a teenage girl? :dubious:
Nah - Brooke’s a guy.
What is happening is the usual inconsistant writing.
Amos frequently pines for the dark haired classmate right in front of Edda but this is all forgotten when he wants Edda.
Basically this is a comic version of The Gilmore Girls but the mother and daughter in the comic have absoultely no flaws whatsoever.
But they are both really hot.
Oh and I think Edda is way to independent to join a ballet company. But she will and she will be the nicest prima donna ballerina ever.
I just wish the guy would learn to draw backgrounds.
I will, on occasion, get creeped out that it’s an old guy drawing this.
To the OP, this had better not be a dream last time.
Yeah - imagine what he’s got in his own private stash of drawings. :eek:
You want high skeeve factor from this cartoonist, check out his other strip, Pibgorn. Yeesh!
In person, he looks a bit like Chris Meloni (from Law & Order: SVU).
That’s inconsistent? Lemme guess - you were never a teenage boy, were you?
That is seriously odd.
Hey, you guys lay off Brooke!
I thought the present sequence was very romantic and sweet. Amos shows up at the recital with a fresh haircut, wearing a (rented) set of white-tie-and-tails, because he wants to look good for Edda’s Big Moment. He gets a big smooch on the strength of it.
This obviously weighs on his mind as he hammers out the Prokofiev, which is what leads to the current steamy kiss.
Now that I think of it, Pibgorn reminds me a lot of Terry Moore’s work before he started Strangers in Paradise.
Oh no, I sure was one for about 25 years. But my expierence was to woo one girl at a time, until the court order to move on to the next one.
Yeah, yeah - we’re not talking about the plot, we’re talking about the sexy drawings of a teenage girl. I notice he just happens to frequently involve Edda in situations where she’s wearing a skimpy bathing suit. :dubious:
…okay, that strip looks pretty interesting! Can someone give me a bit of a history of the characters, I’m reading some of the archives now…
Not just teenage girls. Edda’s mom is pretty hot (for a science professor)–especially in her Jane of the Jungle alter-ego. I’m afraid the artist of 9 Chickweed Lane is guilty of liking pretty ladies. They fit his graceful, minimal style so elegantly.
A few months ago, the Houston Chronicle removed the strip & replaced it with an abomination called “Brewster Rockit: Space Guy.”
So now he’ll be drawing a entire ballet company! Scads of women in tights!
hehehehehehe
Hey, it’s a maillot (I don’t think she’s ever been in a bikini; she IS a Catholic schoolgirl). What SHOULD a teenage girl swim in, a floradora?
BanquetBear, although I read the strip all the time, I may get a few facts wrong. Here goes:
Juliette Burbur, the mom, is a professor in a university, teaching chemistry or biology. She’s a divorcee with a teenage daughter. Her boyfriend is another professor at the university, and is sort of a wimp, IMO.
Edda Burbur is her daughter. She goes to a Catholic school and is talented in the arts of dance and music and is a high achiever.
Amos is her school buddy, and as we see by yesterday’s strip, now maybe more. He’s a budding genius and ultra-geek.
Juliette’s unhappy harridan grandmother lives with Juliette and Edda, and she has a loony-toon, New England farmer boyfriend.
Juliette and Edda seem prone to appearing in swimsuits, leotards, jungle judy outfits, revealing evening gowns, ballet outfits, etc. Mr. Pug never misses a day.
Edda is also a black belt in karate, harbors a great deal of resentment towards her absentee, bimbo-mongering father, and was once injured by the accidental discharge of a firearm that one of the students brought into the school. She is not being brought up as a Catholic, appears to be an agnostic, and calls the head nun “Sister Caligula” behind her back. This is the same nun who arranged for the ballet company representative to be at the recital, and it would be nice to see Edda give her some love for that. Edda’s fantasy life seems to be laegely centered around her superheroine adventures as “Superlative Girl.”
Juliette has a rich fantasy life as well. When she is wearing her leopard-skin print leotard beneath her street clothes, she very easily slips into daydreams of her adventures as “Panther Woman.” Sometimes she does this to escape the banality of her day-to-day existence; other times she uses the fantasy to empower herself when she feels she is being ill-used by those with titular authority over her. At times she will be bedeviled by the imaginary friend from her childhood (a huge, misanthropic rabbit – think Harvey gone to seed, and with an extremely bad attitude – the prototype of which she still retains, an old stuffed bunny).