There's something creepy going on. There's something sinister about how Evy remains friendly but aloof with Mary. Plus, there's her strange detachment from her imaginative/psychotic daughter. What could it be? What's going to happen? Please, please, please let it be something.
Olive looks nothing like her mother. Perhaps Evy is an evil stepmother. Olive could be the result of a tryst between her father and an exotic Broadway starlet (who had co-starred with Legend Ken Kensington).
ReplyDeleteMaybe Olive's schizophrenia will be diagnosed by Dr. Adrian Cory, who's earned a psychiatry degree from the College of Bora Bora.
Or Mary will introduce Olive's family to Wilbur and Dawn, who's bizarre relationship will teach them the true meaning of Dysfunctional Family.
PLEASE let Moy develop an interesting storyline. I fear we're being set up for months of baking cookies - with lots of pink icing.
I prefer ANY of the plots suggested by @Peggy Olson.
ReplyDeleteThis is still the day of the pool party, right? Evy's top (with the unfortunately placed stripe) was purple at poolside. Did she change into a black version of the same top when she and Ed left the party? "Olive's with that busybody woman, so let's go back to the condo and continue to catch up!" And (I hope I'm phrasing this in a family-friendly way), depending on how much catching up they do, maybe Olive will get a sibling who will also some day be ignored by its parents.
I prefer ANY of the plots suggested by @Peggy Olson.
ReplyDeleteThis is still the day of the pool party, right? Evy's top (with the unfortunately placed stripe) was purple at poolside. Did she change into a black version of the same top when she and Ed left the party? "Olive's with that busybody woman, so let's go back to the condo and continue to catch up!" And (I hope I'm phrasing this in a family-friendly way), depending on how much catching up they do, maybe Olive will get a sibling who will also some day be ignored by its parents.
There may be a tie-in soon with the last storyline. After and interesting day looking at roses Mary is going to teach Olive to bake. Then Mary will teach Olive how to do other "interesting" things.
ReplyDeleteI can see a three-panel day where Olive is shown happily mopping Mary's kitchen floor in panel one. Panel two will show Tommy happily mopping the floor at Jerry's. Mary will have a smug grin on her face in panel three.
Olive may be another kidnapped girl from Goleta. You can tell because her wig keeps slipping down her forehead.
ReplyDeleteI think in the comics world, New York natives have to be depicted wearing black at some point. The official color of Santa Royale is orchid, which makes everyone there look as if they escaped the Heaven's Gate UFO cult. Invading New Yorkers have to have black hair, and, apparently, fantastic imaginations that may eventually result in a psychiatric diagnosis, although I do love those Flower Fairies. . .
ReplyDeleteThe Heaven's Gate cult didn't have a color. Shree Ragneesh cultees wore shades of orange.
ReplyDeleteThat being said, I simply love Mary's expression in the panel. She's just so happy at the prospect of baking with Olive.
I'm still holding out for zombies or an invasion of the body snatchers type thing. The REAL family will show up and be like WUUUUUHHHUH??? Chaos ensues.
ReplyDeleteI guess this new story started with such a fantastic bang that now we'll have to suffer through weeks of mundane activities to make up for all the excitement. Although.... little Olive might spot some kelk cookie fairies in Mary’s kitchen. That’ll be something. How long before Mary has a talk with Olive’s parents that they need to take her to a shrink? Oh, I forgot, they’re busy “catching up!”
ReplyDeleteEnvy and Ed will continue their catching up by taking a romantic moonlight cruise on a rented sailboat. They never emerge from a sudden storm, and we discover that they have left a hastily written will asking Mary to take care of Olive.
ReplyDeleteHere's the kicker. In the soap opera strips, kids age very slowly, if at all. Evidence the kid in Rex Morgan, who should be in middle school by now, and our own Dawn Weston, who was introduced as a sullen teen over thirty years ago, and is one still. Olive could be with us a long, long time.
Evy, not Envy. Darned autocorrect.
ReplyDeleteAhem! That's "Mrs. Worth" to you, Olive!
ReplyDeleteYep, I'm sure I'd turn my young child over to an overeager old lady after having just met her.
ReplyDeleteMary would never suggest sending someone to a shrink - that would be admitting that her meddling is not all powerful to solve ANY problem - even if it invloves getting someone to drive off a cliff. Literally.
ReplyDeleteWho is drawing this strip lately? Evy is definitely looking different.
ReplyDeletePerhaps her husband is a Lifestyle Lift doctor.