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

[wednesday]

But Liz is going to date other chappy. The scary chappy.

[signsoflife.livejournal.com]

I wonder if I could pinpoint the exact moment when Lynn Johnston started to suck, and if it would coincide with the birth of April. Or maybe the death of Farley. *resists urge to plan a research methodology*

[grumqa.livejournal.com]

I noticed that too.

What? There's nothing more metal than FBoFW!

[reveritas.livejournal.com]

bwahahahaha. i loved that one. i really did.

[gismonda.livejournal.com]

FOR WORSE!

[violetisblue.livejournal.com]

I'm just glad it's not gonna be the Big Loser with the kid and the weird Quebecoise wife. (The "Hey, random handsome cop I just met five minutes ago while seriously sleep-deprived, go track down my daughter in the middle of nowhere and date her!" subtext actually strikes me as really weird, but...)

[bostonista.livejournal.com]

Whoa, people actually follow this comic strip? I'm amazed...

[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. :)

[nathanjw]

You know, I was in the process of going cold turkey from this strip when ucomics.com stopped carrying it this month. Now I know there's another source. Damn you!

[asd109.livejournal.com]

Oh well. He's got 2 things going for him-he's cute and he's not anthony.

of course, he's not helicopter guy, so it doesn't really matter

[muffyjo]

I got that from the prior one where she showed off the picture and he said he wanted to revisit the town. See, the thing is, this way everyone knows Mom is going to approve of him, he's been vetted. And so daughter will inevitably hate him at first and come to love him in the end and it will all end in tears (of joy or sadness is still to come. They might kill him off, or send him overseas. Ya never know!)

[redtheblue.livejournal.com]

My paper only runs FBoFW on Sunday. That may be the most pointless thing they do. It's like running just the first panel of Mary Worth every day. Ot running Mary Worth at all.

But yes, that was a godawful example of visual storytelling, Lynn: "No no no! The characters HAVE to be in full-body silluoette! And no one will believe it's a policeman's office if you don't put all the required manuals and forms in view and make it show months of use! And the nameplate on the door? It wouldn't be very big! I know police stations well."