While Mary Worth continues to chat delightfully about the essential joys of human interaction, the "Phantom" has apparently grown bored with this Rashomon story and returned to its previously scheduled programming, which will no doubt feature human interaction of a different sort.
There's nothing like a pie in the face too. I'd like to fling them at Mary, Heloise, and KM.
ReplyDeleteOlive's having a particularly bad hair day in today's floating head. This may account for her "Oy vey!" expression.
Mary doesn't count meddling as work? I'm shocked.
ReplyDeleteMy how Olive has grown! It is also a little creepy that an old lady has to travel cross contry to visit a little girl. Couldnt she have just visited her little model friend from Goleta?
ReplyDeleteHeloise is tougher than she looks. Already she's broken Mary's wrist.
ReplyDeleteInteresting comparison between Mary Worth and The Phantom today.
ReplyDeleteThe Phantom: Show, Don't Tell.
Mary Worth: Tell, Tell, Tell (with Floating Head), Tell some more, Keep Telling, Maybe Show A Little, Tell What You've Shown, Tell Some More, Tell Over Coffee.
In just a couple of days and tens of thousands fewer readers, the writers of the Phantom conclude that putting Mary in the strip was a very bad idea.
ReplyDeleteWonderfully well written, Wanders!
ReplyDeleteSaturday
ReplyDeleteThe back of the cab is so spacious, did it somehow transform into a limo?
Mary, smugly: "Ah, yes. Tolstoy..."
Heloise, perplexed: "I thought Oprah said that."
Well, the Phantom strip has returned to a dialogue between Mary and Heloise, but it's a completely different dialogue than the one in the Mary Worth strip! They must be living in parallel universes, which explains why Phantom-Mary is dressed in blue and Mary Worth-Mary is dressed in pink. So exciting!
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ReplyDeleteI checked the blog today and was perturbed that no one had commented on today's strip. Then I read the strip, and it seems that Mary Worth has taken on the very bad habit of Apartment 3-G and simply offered a recap of this week's conversations. Dullsville! No wonder no one commented! There wasn't even a platitudinous quotation to snark on ...