For Better Or Foreshadowing

[spatch]

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Lynn Johnston, winner of the 2005 Subtle As A Chainsaw Award for the most egregious and heavy-handed display of foreshadowing since "God himself could not sink this ship, nyer nyer nyer!!!"

And she accomplishes it in such a... ARGH ARGH ARGH. There's like a zillion ways to reveal that policeman's name for the punchline (look at all the space she had in the second panel!) and she picked the absolute worst one.

Next week I fully expect her to draw the policeman with an arrow pointing to him that says "HEY I THINK HE'LL BECOME ROMANTICALLY ENTANGLED WITH ELIZABETH, WHAT DO YOU GUYS THINK?"

Ah, spleen, thou hast been full-vented.

Comments

[quodlibetic.livejournal.com]

I want to know just how long Liz is planning on going Native American. Eventually Johnston is going to run out of mystical wilderness society things to write about from afar. My vote is that Liz will end up with the whipped-guy-married-to-psycho-bitch-Quebecoise in the end. Or not.

I still groaned at the "Mr Wright", though. :)