I'm surprised Gina made it back to the Hilton in one piece. After the Santa Royale Soccer Players lost the Big Game to the New York Blazes, the rioting in the streets has been ferocious. Most of the city is in flames, and very few windows have been left unbroken. Today's Full Strip
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Gina's pony tail has earned a 10 on the ridiculous-o-meter today.
She looks like a real groupie.
Oh c'mon now! Gina is still in purple, thus denoting her as a Serious Person, and her attire, making whatever statement it's making, is beyond the amorphous togs of waitresses, nurses or rabid librarians that fill these spaces.
Everything else is still creepy, so we are safely ensconced in Santa Royale.
But that's it? Game over? We waited months for those two days to bring us action and now Moy and Giella just yawn and say "we gotta get back to people just standing around and thinking deep stuff again!"
Oh holy cow! Is that woman on the couch ding what I think she's doing? the guys looks goofily shocked, but that may be just from finding himself as an extra in Worthville.
If Bobby didn't get scared away by receiving thre messages saying the same thing...
I'm thinking that's Bobby on the cell phone in the background. After seeing that ridiculous pony tail, he decided that maybe he could pretend like her never got the message and saw her, just slinking away in the background.
If they do dine however, hopefully they try the Santa Royale with Cheese--it's supposed to be spectacular at RESTAURANT at the HILTON.
Golly whiz, Gina, that's a lot of "ifs," but you're forgetting stuff like, "If my father hadn't witnessed that gruesome mob hit."
One of the contributors to this blog recently pointed out that the artwork (ha!) in this strip often invites us to compare the panels and ask what's different. Okay, in the second panel today, has Gina moved closer to the hideous pink banquette shown in the first panel? The menacing plant at far right and the birdbath (whoops, table) are still there, but there's a picture on the wall instead of the weed-like plants. And, did the couple decide to get a room?
The left arm of the guy on the cell phone appears to be discontinuous.
Looks like the blonde girl on the sofa is receiving a "package".
...which leads me into a "George-ism" from Seinfeld...:
"Was that wrong?"
Wanders, you really made my day. I have visions of Charterstone residents going crazy and burning couches after their team's loss to the arch rival Blazes.
And then, for some reason, Moy/Giella have transported us back in time to a Mad Men hotel lobby scene. Gina's ponytail is stylishly pushed atop her head in eager anticipation.
All the while, I'm still waiting for Mr. Hamfist/Mob Kingpin to step away from the ferns with guns a-firing. But that would be *showing* us something! :-)
heydave, I felt like shouting "GET A ROOM!" at that couple.
Also, it is a bit odd that it took about 2 1/2 weeks in the real world for two days to elapse, yet the soccer game was over in just two real days. Karen Moy must have fallen into a wormhole or something. The time-space continuum as we know it is going to H-E-double-hockey sticks (this is a family blog!) in a handbasket.
With her hair up high like that, Gina almost looks like Barbara Eden in I Dream of Jeannie, the mean spirited brunette sister who wore blue instead of pink.
Good ol' Sidney Sheldon...
I don't know if I'd want to sit on that banquette right after the couple left...
The plants are especially menacing today. That box full of them sucked the couple right in and then disappeared! And the other one ate Cell Phone Guy and is now reaching for Gina.
Probably to adjust her ponytail. Or floss its teeth with it.
--Beagle Vet
What is that woman on the pink couch doing? What kind of hotel is this???
Why does Gina's ponytail look like an oil well gusher?
Why does Gina's profile look like that of a 50-year-old? She looks really cute in the first panel.
Grapes. That's what she was snacking on yesterday.
Love the Worth Noir figures in the background.
ginas too stupid to call up for a confirmation of her same day delivery and did she walk to the hotel ?
Look closely. The working girl on the settee has a pirate eye patch. Ask for "Blackbeard". She is reaching for his wallet.
And why is the door to the men's room open? You can see the urinals. What kind of place is this, anyway.
The RESTAURANT at the HILTON must be pretty cruddy, even Waiter McSnooty won't moonlight there. No tables, no host (unless he/she is still out ransacking the town after the big loss. It just looks like a pickup joint.
Why didn't Gina just sit at the lobby bar and watch the big game on the big screen TV's? She could not be a waitress there, too.
Looking forward to oil-well a la Beverly Hillbillies pony-tailed Hina meeting Bobby Blazes and having a drink from what seems to be a birdbath.
Saturday: this is beginning to remind me of a Scooby Doo episode as the waiter approaches.....
Lobby guests in unison: Leonard Maltin!
@Dave in Parma - and I was just coming here to note the cameo appearance of James Lipton as the maitre d' in Saturday's strip.
I especially liked the double possessive "Bobby's Hotel's Restaurant." It just rolls off my lips.
Saturday: What I wish maitre'd had asked: "Table for ONLY one? [Not a surprise, what with that ponytail - harumph!]"
What I'd like to see on Sunday but never will in a million years: Bobby enters Restaurant, pursued by mob of hooligan groupies. Chris Christie Hamfist, watching out for his guy, shoves Gina into ugly plants. Bobby waits 90 seconds, tosses Gina's gum-wrapper bracelet into trash, returns to his room, and orders sandwich from room-service menu.
Love the references to Guest Stars in the role of Maitre d'. I too thought first of James Lipton.
Can't blame Wanders for taking the day off. Big Game was relegated to two panels after weeks (months/seemingly years) of glacial build-up. Thinking of switching to Snuffy Smith. That's all I'm sayin'
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