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

[oakenguy.livejournal.com]

Wait...Farley's dead?

You know, it's been a while since I saw Mr. Hooper on Sesame Street...

[signsoflife.livejournal.com]

Farley died saving April from a flooding backyard creek when she was a toddler. He was able to keep her head above water long enough for Dad to pull them both to safety, but the cold and the strain were too much for his heart, and he died on the creek bank.

Do not be confused by his inferior replacement, Edgar (actually his *son* by Lawrence's mother's dog, Sera) (Who got pregnant, IIRC, because April let her out of her cage at an inopportune time) (and who was named "Sera" because after all the shit that went down with Lawrence coming out, his Mom eventually said, "Que sera, sera".)