Clearly years have passed, and Lonnie has now reached middle age. If I'm not mistaken, the first vibration lines are starting to appear near his head. Downtown Santa Royale has gotten so much nicer since Disney took over and kicked out the riffraff who were always seeking revenge.
Today's Full Strip
Did they just... swap jackets?
ReplyDeleteI've aged to the point that a simple two-frame comic strip confuses me, so, like Samuel K, I don't follow what happened today. It looks as if a well-groomed Lonnie, wearing a blue jacket, is addressing a down-and-outer, probably asking if he witnessed Rickie's murder. The street guy seems to be saying, "Uh, no, but I like your suit." Did the cops, or the hoodlums lurking in the background, see anything strange in this interaction?
ReplyDelete"You don't know nothin'? You don't know nothin? You disgust me... gimme the suit, Christopher Walken."
ReplyDeleteWhere were the police in all this? Do the cops in Santa Royale only help the wealthy like Mary Worth and the other Charterstone residents and not the down-and-outers as Lonnie and his family appear to be?
ReplyDeleteAnd why wouldn't Dr Mike's mother tell him that their husband/father has deserted the family to look for his cousin's killers?
Like Tony@9.14a, I've aged past the comprehension and logic point of this storyline. It's really sad.
I was so desperate to find the killer that I switched clothes with a street guy just to fit in.
ReplyDeleteThis doesn't even feel like Mary Worth, now. It's like it's morphed into some other strip in a bad neighborhood. I'm frightened and confused...I need a panel showing Mary baking something, quick! Preferably salmon squares!
ReplyDelete@phoebes: Yes, dIdn't the police come to the scene of the shooting? Did they not conduct an investigation? Is it a "cold case" now? Is that why Lonnie took to alcohol? And why was losing his cousin more important than the welfare of his wife and child? Moy, Moy, Moy. You'd better start watching Law & Order and CSI if you want to write crime drama.
ReplyDeleteThis doesn't even feel like Mary Worth, now. It's like it's morphed into some other strip in a bad neighborhood. I'm frightened and confused...I need a panel showing Mary baking something, quick! Preferably salmon squares!
ReplyDeleteA recap of Lonnie's years wandering Skid Row:
ReplyDeleteLonnie: "Did you kill my cousin? We were closer than brothers."
Bum #1: "No."
Lonnie: "OK, thanks."
to Bum #2:
"Did you kill my cousin?"
Bum #2: "No."
Lonnie: "OK, thanks."
Multiply times 20 years.
A storyline this stupid is, well, criminal.
I'm with Samuel K and Tony--what's up witht he suit jacket exchange. Maybe it is the genetic link to Dr. Mike's ever changing hair.
ReplyDeleteThe colorist screwed up the color of the jackets in panel one. Way to go, third grade art class!
ReplyDelete@Punky - I think it was an excuse for a drinking game as well: "Did you kill my cousin?" Bum: "NO" Lonnie: "ok,thanks", *takes a swig*...and on and on.
ReplyDelete@Muade Findlay-- I'm frightened, too! I think we should never have walked down that park path with all it's "varied landscape"! We're in the wroooong neighborhood now!
Are the two panels in today's strip (8/20) supposed to be happening on the same day, or are we looking at a montage of Lonnie's interrogations of various denizens of the mean streets?
ReplyDeleteBackground figure in panel 1 has a fashionable men's hat and overcoat, background figures in panel 2 have backward baseball cap and mirror shades.
I meant to add: Lonnie also looks to have aged between the panels, but those things happen to characters all the time and can't be relied upon to represent the passage of time.
ReplyDeleteMike should never have moved benches. He should have insisted on the first bench, the one near the cement path, on the manicured lawn. Then, the story that sprang from his story would at least be situated in a more tidy setting.
ReplyDeleteThat's good Toots, Montage vs. continuity failure. We report. You decide.
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