"Always?" Always would indicate that Mary Worth seems to have no beginning, that she meddled before the foundation of worlds. She was there, telling Eve not to eat the forbidden fruit; she was there, telling Martin Luther that the selling of indulgences might not be such a good idea; she was there, telling Ronald Reagan that he should just ask Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall. And throughout it all, by her side was Olive, kindred and eternal spirits, pulling strings, meddling, shaping the world as we know it.
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Mary has a lot of nerve dragging God into her meshuganah notion of she and Olive as a superhuman team of Enlightened Ones. Of course, Mary is the Main E. O., with Olive as her fawning apprentice/acolyte. "Stand back, feeble humans!" Those bangle bracelets Mary is sporting may have a sinister purpose, like clanking them together to cloud men's minds. (It worked with Jeff.)
To avert my eyes from Mary's smirking countenance, I looked at the photographs Mr. Giella has provided. Is that Charles Darwin on the end table, and a scary nurse on the wall?
The whole conversation in this panel, besides being Painfully Awkward (a KM Trademark), scores incredibly high on the Unintentionally Creepy Scale as well.
Just...ugh.
We seem to be easing into a SF/Fantasy/Comic Book way of looking at things in the Worthiverse. OK, I'm far more comfortable with that than trying to fit the current plot into any kind of real-world logic. In fact, I'd like it if all of Mary's dialogue from now on boiled down to "I am Groot."
I'm with you, Nance: It's creepy that Olive's creepy parents endorse their creepy daughter's creepy relationship with this creepy old biddy. It's also kind of creepy how much Mary looks like Richard Burton in P1.
Weird as the dialogue is, I'm glad to hear Mary say "God works in mysterious ways." It implies she realizes that there is a God and it's not her. Up to this point, I was a bit worried that Mary thought she herself was omnipotent.
I think that Mary may have identified young, kindred spirit Olive as a sufficient receptacle for her Katra. After all, Mary is getting up there in years. She is preparing to move on to the next plane of existence.
Mrvy, it might be that Mary DOES think that she is God, but she is now referring to herself (or Herself) in the third person.
I missed the Olive story the first time around but thanks to your tags I have been reviewing them. Olive is really a very bizarre young lady, isn't she?
Whaaaaa......???! I stopped reading this strip for a few days, and ... no pool party?!?!?!?!?!?! Just Mary and Dr. Jeff having dinner at the Bum Boat?!?!?!? What a rip-off!
Anyway, a trip to NYC will be GREAT! Little Olive Taylor and her frisky parents, Ken Kensington (sure to make an appearance!), John Dill, the mugger, the cab driver who almost ran Mary over, and others ....? One can only hope!
And, since people are commenting about the unprecedented resurgence of characters from past "plots," let me say that I would love ... LOVE! ... to see Nola Wolvenson, my all-time favorite Mary Worth character, reappear in the strip!
If we're talking favorite characters, I'd have to say the drunken woman who broke Mary's glass swans. The last time we saw her, Mary had dumped her at a homeless women's shelter. I wish I could remember her name.
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