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.

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[signsoflife.livejournal.com]

Because dating men your mother has preapproved is *good*. As is being a schoolteacher or being a nurse (for women) and being a small-business owner or self-employed (for men or for women whose children are grown.) Living together before marriage is bad and will be punished; enjoying an investment career outside the house is abandoning your husband and child.

I'm really getting sick of the way FBoFW has transmuted into an ongoing morality tale.

[muffyjo]

But it has always been one.

[spatch]

Back when it started, it espoused the ideals of the nuclear family in the "ha ha, aren't small children adorable?" way. Once the kids started growing up and Farley died, things took a turn for the melodramatic.