Human beings are complex, aren't they? Toby had a change of heart about speaking with Ian, and then when she does, she willingly forgives him without explanation. Who cares why. Who can explain these things we call homo-sapiens? It's all just part of this colorful tapestry we call life.
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I hope they'll spend a while longer on the couch, admiring Mary's vast blank painting and (utterly predictably) bland taste in flower arrangements...
Toby's not ready to come home yet. She needs to learn to stand on her own two feet. Which means, of course, she'll continue to sponge off of Mary until she figures out how to sponge off someone else.
I love this panel. It looks as if she's gesturing at a movie screen which, at the moment she is done saying her line "Of course I forgive you!", will immediately spring to life with a short, meaningful film montage of their meeting, courtship, marriage, and a slow dissolve with a meaningful title sequence of quotes from, oh, say Jonathan Livingston Seagull or Oprah. At this point, she will look at him--meaningfully--and then say that she cannot come home.
Then there will be three or four more weeks (or months) of meaninglessness.
I can see the goings-on at the Moy and Giella comicplex headquarters. Industrious minions are carefully cutting out Toby and Ian heads from previous strips and carefully gluing them over Terry and Adam heads. We'll soon be treated to Toby and Ian playing in the pool, clinking coffee mugs, beating back muggers, riding roller coasters and hot air balloons. The high point will be Toby wistfully exclaiming, "I fling open every door!" Let's all get together here again at the Blogger after Thanksgiving, shall we?
Our young readers at my school are taught to recognize the difference between thought bubbles and speech bubbles in illustrations. Today's second panel would be somewhat baffling to them, I'm sure. Ian seems to be saying "!" Because it is in a speech bubble, one can assume that it is an audible utterance. Just how does one say "!"? Is it a sound of some sort, or is he actually saying "Exclamation point"?
All I can say is "!". Or did I just think it?
It can't be this easy. I predict Toby will be back at Mary's once Ian resumes his bromance with Hilton Berkes.
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