At first I was worried, when I saw Mary at Mountview Hospital, that we were moving on to a new story just a little too early. Thank heaven we're headed back to Diner for some more conversation and coffee. Perhaps Bobby has quit his job with the soccer team and is now working at Diner as well, where he and Gina can ignore their customers together as they drink coffee and admire how they haven't changed in ten years.Today's Full Strip
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That face-touching picture of Mary is quite scary. I wonder if I can replicate it for Halloween....
Some would call those two "background nurses" - but *I* call them "potential storylines."
And I'm getting whiplash - several weeks have already passed? At least according to the Department of Exposition.
It's been several WEEKS!? After the intense conversations at Diner, and knowing that Gina was hot on the track of Bobby, Mary let several WEEKS go by?
With free access to Blazer tickets, does Gina still work at Diner?
Someone needs to tell Mary that yellow is a no-no for her - she looks peaked. I'm hoping that when she enters Diner and scans the room for Gina, Manager will say "That crummy waitress quit just as I was about to fire her!"
Maybe the disembodied head above the monitor in the first panel will be the subject of the next storyline. He/she looks asexual.
Weeks!!! Are Gina and Bobby still staring at each other, in Diner?? He did say he didn't want to stop. That's right, Mary, head on over and begin the meddle. Please.
She's more likely to find them still looking over their menus at Bobby's Hotel's Restaurant.
Mary Worth is a god. While mere mortals like Gina and Bobby enjoy lunch in a hotel restaurant, Mary sits up on high, alone in her knowledge that they are, in fact, in a comic strip. Just as the billion year creation of the universe was a mere six days to Mary, a ha;f hour lunch lasts weeks.
There is undue concern about Gina's lengthy absence from the Diner patrons. SR has a far more relaxed work practices than us non-residents are familar with. If you step back several years, Dr. Drew Corey was able to come and go at the clinic based only on his personal needs and activities, leaving his partners in the practice to take up the slack. Even others in SR appear to adhere to this admirable work ethic.
On another note, if Mary would just read the strip about her, she would stay current with Gina and Bobby's progress. We readers know. Why does Mary seem to be the last to know? The writer and artist are doing their best. What has Mary been doing the last two weeks? All The blame rests on Mary's shoulders. Maybe Punky can ask the "background nurses" and report back to the rest of us.
Mary looks positively demented in the second segment.
And I'da thought Gina would have left town with Bobby weeks ago if they were really "in love". Would he really let her go back to working in crummy ol' Diner?If she's STILL working at Diner weeks later, then she was nothing more than a "one-night-stand" for Bobby.
I'm expecting to see her next on "Housewives of NYC", all pulled and tucked, with huge lips, and a much more interesting hair style.
I'm still waiting to hear about "Jill Black" and "Bobby Black".
Speaking of "background nurses," I am unnerved by the assemblage of body parts that makes up Blond Waving Nurse. What's up with that woman's joints? She looks like a recently found marionette that sat in a heap in the back of a closet for a few decades. Or locked in some musty trunk. Seriously, I'm creeped out right now.
I've never seen scrubs with collars.
When did Mary's eye go all wonky?
I think we'll find Gina still "working" at Diner, but she will be packing her fabulous furniture for a return to the city that never sleeps, where she and Bobby can happily ride skateboards and not know any other way to be.
I think that Mary will go to the Diner and find that Gina has quit and the head cook will say "that dame ran off with some jock back to New York." Mary will touch her face and say "Oh, how wonderful! She has found love at last!" Then, the head cook will start crying into the mashed potatoes and Mary Worth will meddle on and find out why he's so blue. Lo and behold, it involves a failed romance with one of the background nurses from today's strip.
We can only be optimistic that a transition is on the way.
On an unrelated note, should I be proud or worried: my seven year old first grader was allowed to dress down for school today if he wore something red. He chose his red 3/4" sleeved Mary Worth 'You look like you could use some advice' shirt.
Mary thinks.... "I'd better return Dick Tracy's raincoat today."
WV: butsmsol. ..."Then I'll pick up a tube of Butsmsol at Pharmacy"
Wanders, perhaps it's time to put in a request for a little Jethro Tull "Cross-eyed Mary" on the jukebox!
@Paul Pennington - Maybe Mary can't read her own strip b/c she's gone crossed-eyed, wonky, pick your adjective. But those eyes are tracking, that's for sure.
@James - I'd be proud if my son wore a Mary Worth shirt to school! If he dresses as a soccer pro for Halloween and tells his pals his name is Bobby Black, I wonder how many would have a clue?
When are these people going to realize that love is not for them. And for good reason.
Perhaps Mary's curious absence over the past few weeks can only be explained by the discombobulated half-head floating about in the first panel.
Reports of paranormal activity at the hospital have been frightening the nursing staff. No worries. Mary's on the case.
Mary's been inhaling bath salts. That would explain her rotting black lips and crossed eyes.
I meant to say her eyes are NOT tracking, of course.
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