rannum posted:

Johnny Walker posted:

SNL did a bit on that second panel premise way back. I remember it being funny, but in retrospect, it's kinda creepy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwfdFCP3KYM

Drimble Wedge posted:

...what is her hand holding on to, and why is he making that face?

Samovar posted:

In today's Blueberry: Graig never looks a gift horse in the mouth, or It's over, Graig! They have the high ground!, or Be careful, Graig, that's what did in for Christopher Reeve...

Parahexavoctal posted:

In this installment of The Timid Soul (November 29, 1926), I wonder if the blush on the billboard model is meant to indicate anything about her relationship with the other billboard model.

Kennel posted:

Slammy posted:

Hitz and Mrs. (November 1923)

F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:

This really doesn't sit well with me (I know about Lynn's problematic history). This kid is terrified of going home and Lynn's just clueless. I get the sense that if Mike told his mom that she still wouldn't give a poo poo.

Cobalt-60 posted:

Is there a guide to the Dark History of FBOW? I know there was something with a RL divorce and a tacked-on happy ending. Always fascinated by sordid details of vanilla worlds.

Cobalt-60 posted:

Is there a guide to the Dark History of FBOW? I know there was something with a RL divorce and a tacked-on happy ending. Always fascinated by sordid details of vanilla worlds.

F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:

The only pieces of it that I know for sure is something about leaving kids out in the cold “for their good” and that Lynn’s irl kids hate her. I think one of the kids is also LGBT but Lynn made them straight in the strip? Someone else might be able to fill in the details better.

Potsticker posted:

The basics as I remember them are:
The Husband Dentist left her because he was cheating with his dental assistant
The Son is actually gay, obviously did not marry his childhood sweetheart as in the strip. The woman in question in real life died in a car crash and he was working as a photographer at the time and didn't realize she had died in a wreck that he took pictures of. It messed him up.
The Older Dog died saving one of the Daughters from drowning when they were young. Memory is a little hazier here because either the Younger Dog or the Younger Daughter (both?) are a complete fabrication.


She left a kid out in the cold/snow without proper warm clothes on. The quote was something like "an angel told me I should let them back in."

F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:

Thanks. I figured someone was more familiar with the whole bundle of crazy. A lot of it sounds like reveals at the end of the original Roseanne.

Potsticker posted:

The Son is actually gay, obviously did not marry his childhood sweetheart as in the strip. The woman in question in real life died in a car crash and he was working as a photographer at the time and didn't realize she had died in a wreck that he took pictures of. It messed him up.

BigDave posted:

I wanna say there was something about eating over a sink? But the many threads have become a blur to me.

quote:

Not that her ex-husband would have behaved that way, she hastens to point out, but still, she likes the simplicity of single life, the ease of "sink dinners".

"You stand over the sink and eat dinner. You eat a hard-boiled egg, a handful of lettuce and hey, there's no dishes."

Potsticker posted:

She left a kid out in the cold/snow without proper warm clothes on. The quote was something like "an angel told me I should let them back in."

quote:

Heintjes: This was Doug, the man who gave you Aaron?

Johnston: Yes, and when I had Aaron, he left me, and I didn’t know how to raise a child. And I wasn’t close to my parents, and because I was too proud to go to my parents for help, I mistreated that little baby. I didn’t want a baby. I wanted the stability that a family was supposed to represent. And a baby can’t say, “Thanks, Mom, for feeding me and keeping me warm and dry even though I screamed my lungs out all night last night.” And they want and they want and they want and they want. The only satisfaction you have is that they’re fed and they’re warm and they’re safe and they’re thriving, and they smile at you every once in a while. They’re not going to thank you until they’re 45 [laughter].

I remember once when he was very unhappy and he was screaming and screaming, and I threw him out into a snow bank in his pajamas. This was in Ontario, and it was not warm here. And he put his hands against the window of the front door, pleading to be let in. And I was inside, screaming at him, “If you don’t want to sleep all night, you can friggin’ sleep outside!” And this was a teeny baby. And I don’t know what it was—it was almost like at that moment, my guardian angel put his hand on my shoulder and said, “Open the door.”

The next morning, I called a very good friend of mine who was working at the hospital. I had also been doing some work for this hospital on a freelance basis. And I said to my friend, “I need some help. I don’t known how to parent.” Now, you say to yourself, “I’m a mature adult—I should know how to parent.” But raising a child is not like training a dog. [laughter] I was not a sensible mother. I just didn’t know what I was supposed to do. I didn’t know about time out. I didn’t know to say, “OK, we’re both out of control, let’s have time out for five minutes and calm down.”

I was in a very unhappy situation. I was lonely, I was single, and I had all the elements set against me. I had no support. And it didn’t help that I had a very irritable, difficult child. He’s going to go into the theater [laughter]. He’s a performer. He’s witty. He could go into stand-up comedy. He’s taken all his anger and turned it into something creative.

Medenmath posted:

Vintage Valiant (Aug. 15, 1943)

plainswalker75 posted:

I can't remember exactly, but I think there was some other whitewashing of a real life situation with Elizabeth and Anthony as well.

Professor Wayne posted:

Zits

manero posted:

Nancy 1946

LazyQ posted:

Mämmilä



The grand opening of Osto-Mekka (lit. "Shopping Mecca"), Mämmilä's brand new supermarket. This is what they built over Rönkä's house.

plainswalker75 posted:

Edit: Jeez, the car crash strips were a lot worse than I remembered:
April 27th 1996 - May 11th 1996

With this kind of heavy-handed and judgmental re-writing of history, it's no wonder her children don't want to talk to her.

PainterofCrap posted:

PainterofCrap posted:

amigolupus posted:

Hah, this wouldn't feel out of place in Nu-Nancy. Olivia Jaimes must've read a lot of the Bushmiller era to help her set the tone in her comics.

Potsticker posted:

This took me too long to see, but what a fantastic gag.


I feel like I'm missing the punchline on this one, though.

LingcodKilla posted:

The above ground train system in NYC got removed when the bridges and tunnels for cars/trucks became common.

Potsticker posted:

Oh, okay. I thought it might be something like that, but I didn't see anything that would indicate there used to be trains and didn't know the history. Thanks!