"I'd know that handwriting anywhere... it's on all of my performance reviews."In other news, an exhibit called "All Works Guaranteed Stolen," is running from January 6 – 22 at the Atlantic Works Gallery in East Boston. In this exhibit, the artists are pushing copyright boundaries with extremely "derivative" pieces. The Mary Worth piece is not only startling good, but remarkably timely. I mean, in the Worthiverse, this happened LAST NIGHT!
And finally, today is your last day to vote for the Worthy Awards!
Today's Full Strip
What, no wedding band for Scott?
ReplyDeleteScott says, "I'm curious to see what she gave us for our wedding."
ReplyDeleteMore pithy dialog from the pen of Karen Moy.
Okay, today is January 8th. Looking at the strip, you might assume that we'll find out tomorrow what's in the envelope.
ReplyDeleteThough, this being the Worthiverse where times moves in reallllly slow increments, I bet Adrian doesn't open it for at least five days!
Scott,
ReplyDeleteAfter everything Jill has done to sabotage your wedding, I would not be so pleasantly curious about what she would have in that envelope!
phoebes in santa fe, you are 100% correct, I'm sure!
How right you are, phoebes - especially since the Sunday strips never seem to advance the plot, they more take a leisurely stroll back through recent events, to catch up the readers who haven't been reading during the week. So we will get to relive the arrival of Drew, the ritual clapping, Mary's overeating binge, her rubbing her hands in glee over the stack of loot (sorry, "stash"), maybe one more glimpse of the festive CONGRATIONS banner. That envelope may not get opened till February.
ReplyDeleteAnd is it just me, or does Adrian look, um, naked in today's second panel? Couldn't Giella have drawn in even a tiny bit of the top of her dress? Well, I guess it still beats seeing a little too much of Toby, by the pool.
kathyo, I'm sure Scott's wedding band comes and goes as erratically as Adrian's necklace does.
ReplyDeletePanel One: Adrian's face has a warm glow, seeing Jill's familiar handwriting.
Panel Two: Adrian's expression darkens as she remembers Jill's behavior at the rehearsal dinner.
Could these wild mood swings mean Adrian is (gasp!) pregnant? Perhaps the manila envelope contains test results!
Tony, I so agree. And what's up with Scott?? No "I wonder if Jill has recovered" or "I hope she's ok" kind of talk. Just a selfish little 'gimme'...
ReplyDeleteScott apparently had major plastic surgery between the ceremony and the reception....who IS that??
ReplyDeleteThe wedding guests appear to have stepped out of 1967. Is this taking place in a time warp? Does that mean the marriage isn't legal?
ReplyDeleteI can't get the impending wedding night images out of my head and my appetite is suffering. Please help.
ReplyDeleteI can't get the impending wedding night images out of my head and my appetite is suffering. Please help.
ReplyDeletei am dead certain the envelope contains anthrax. bye bye adrian, scott, mary, jeff, drew and all the guests who popped in from the 1960's (hmmm this could have a butterfly effect).
ReplyDeleteOkay, nobody says things like "I'm curious to see what she gave us for our wedding". That is the most stilted, unnatural phrase I've ever heard. Is Karen Moy an alien or a cyborg or something? Why doesn't she know how people actually sound? Hey Karen, try "Gee, I wonder what we got from Jill" or "Wow, Jill sent us something? I hope it's not a letter bomb, that psycho!"
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ReplyDeleteYou're almost right; Karen Moy is probably a computer program and it's Scott who is the space alien. He's assumed human form but hasn't quite mastered idiom. OR he's wired and is transmitting updates to the Mother Ship and has to keep his boss, Captain Zorg, apprised of what he's doing.
Scott (into his cufflink): I wonder what (female humanoid associate) Jill has given us, "Scott" and Adrian, for our wedding (which is what we are celebrating right now, in accordance with humanoid custom). Out.
And yes, the wedding night will be interesting, when "Scott" becomes excited and his humanoid shield drops. But don't expect Adrian to notice all the tentacles. She never noticed Jill's shark-like gills.
I do NOT want to think about - in any form - Adrian and Scott's "wedding night". Nightmare visions ensue.
ReplyDeleteNotice how, in the last frame of Sunday's strip, Adrian is cluelessly pawing away at the envelope and saying, "I want to know what this is," while everyone else in the frame is half-turned away and in full action pose, making for the window that bow-tie man is jimmying open. Look out--she's going to blow!
ReplyDeleteSunday's strip: Handwriting on envelope reverts to childish scrawl instead of fancy sixth-grade script. Jill must have slipped in unnoticed (again) and left...gulp...a REAL letter bomb.
ReplyDeleteI will bet my last salmon square (which, by the way are good for removing junk from your dogs teeth)It's either Adrians pink slip from Mountview OR two tickets to a skating function at some bum place back east. I forgot where the skating thing took place.
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