Uh, Mary, could you please remind Gina one more time that this story is supposed to be about her father?I laughed at today's strip because my son just put up a skateboard montage on YouTube this weekend, so I told him I'd post it to my blog in honor of Gina's childhood happiness.
Today's Full Strip
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Very cool video! :)
Of course, your son has the advantage that he doesn't have Bobby pointing at him while his girlfriend laughs. I would think that might be distracting.
In what era was Gina a child? With the girl in capri pants and the boy with his pants rolled...it could be the 50s? Or perhaps the 50s was the last time that Moy and the artist (Giella?) were let out of the insane asylum and so that's their frame of reference.
Bobby may have had Gina's whole heart, but he had no manners. Didn't his parents teach him that it's impolite to point at another person? WAIT - maybe he HAD no parents! And, I'm tired of Gina's harping on this "innocent" love. She doth protest too much - what is she hiding?
Teacher Patti, I pointed out the same time discrepancy in my post on yesterday's blog. There is absolutely NO time/place connection between Moy's words and Giella's art.
Is that another member of Bobby Black's "gang" across the way in his gang colors? They seem to be giving each other the closed-fist arm-bent gang salute.
Perhaps this is a Worthiverse version of West Side Story! If so, Bobby must be Tony of the Jets and Gina is Maria of the Sharks. Their attire fits the era reasonably well.
Their love, innocent though it may be, is obviously doomed once the gangs get involved.
Switchblades shoud be seen by early next week.
Perhaps the cruel hand of fate dealt her a love child and an enforced stay with some out-of-state relative until the baby was born. By the time she returned, Bobby had moved on to greener pastures. From innocent love, of course.
I think that Gina has mistaken her life for an episode of Leave it to Beaver. The cruel blow that she was dealt by fate was when her father refused to pay the cable bill.
I am just so relieved to be reminded that it was innocent love so I didn't begin to speculate that the cruel blow might have been an unwanted pregnancy.
I guess we found out who won the battle of the basketball "He had my whole heart and I had his whole basketball" and is that the silhouette of Marvels "Silver Surfer" in the background of the second panel?
Oh my gosh, we get it already. You and your 10-year-old boyfriend were the modern-day Romeo and Juliet. Point made (and made and made). Now GET ON WITH IT!!!
I appreciate when a Mary Worth panel (or a whole strip) is way outside the established norms at least in terms of setting and action. Today's strip was the best since the shootout at the warehouse. Not because it makes any sense or because I need further illustration of the "perfect love" between these mundane 10 year olds, but because it actually surprised me.
Oh, but the Sunday strip was just an aberration in terms of the ponytail looking natural. We're back to the laser precision ponytail.
Why does the strip recently remind me of Monty Python and the Holy Grail? Oh yes, because every time Gina opens her mouth, there's a cutaway shot to an Army shouting:
GET ON WITH IT!!!!
Why does Bobby look eighteen while Gina stays eleven? He's pretty dang TALL for a pre-teen "innocent love" type boy, isn't he??!!
And I'm going to be EIGHTY before we find out what Gina's dad's problem is!
Ahhh, a love story about eleven year olds....how creepy, I mean, charming.
Bobby has aged about 7 years since yesterday. Maybe the cruel blow is that he has progeria.
Your son's skateboard video was far more entertaining; my favorite part is where he picks up the trash barrel and throws it out of the way. It was empty, I hope!
Back then, New York City clothing stores for young boys seemed to band together for a huge sale on mom jeans.
Chester, perhaps it was Creepy Man in Diner's mom jeans that reminded Gina of her lost love.
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