Jannie is an Ice Princess! The only thing that keeps her warm at all is her Virginia Slims cigarette. This woman is pure evil. You can't even sign onto the Virginia Slims website without certifying that you are over 21 and already a smoker! Stir clear, Michael, my boy. Stir clear. You're better off joining the hiking club.
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Today's Boldface Haiku is titled
"I Think It Was Macbeth Who Said Study? Study!? We Don't Need No Stinking Studying!".
Hey! English class?
Hmmph...Michael.
Study, game.
Wow, two plot twists in two days!
But what exactly does "HMMPH" mean? Disdain for Michael? Ian? English? Life itself?
-- Scottie McW.
You can always tell the evil characters in Mary Worth—they’re smokers. Now, I hate, despise and abomination smoking. I lost both my husband and father to lung cancer because of it. But smokers are not inherently bad, they are addicted to a death-dealing habit. But in the worthiverse, if you smoke, you’re rotten to the core.
I thought the point of the JUL was that it could be snuck, not shown off like some 1920's art deco cigarette holder.
At first I though she was smoking the cigarette with a cigarette holder, like some femme fatale or Norma Desmond. (She is kind of delusional like Norma Desmond. I'd watch out for her at a pool party, Chinbeard.) That is one long cigarette. Entertainer Esme would be jealous.
I expect her to say in a Mae West type of voice "Go away kid, you bother me".
I see that Jannie is making an early play for "Inconsequential Character of the Year". She should know this (early in the year) strategy rarely works when one is vying for an Oscar nomination, and it won't work here either. I'm thinking us Worthiverse voters (well, speaking for me at least) have pretty short memories.
Jannie is also a shape-shifter. I think that adds to her personality's evil-woman component, which we are now getting a glimpse of.
It’s all quite tawdry, with the smoking and the leaning against walls and what have you — but on the plus side, at least we are assured that nobody finds Ian attractive.
I didn't remember Jannie showing chest skin yesterday, so I reviewed Monday's strip. I guess June was teasing us yesterday by showing only the top of that cut-out area. Today there's almost cleavage. Added to the smoking, the disdain, the leaning, and the lack of a surname,, it's clear that we are being told in no uncertain terms that Jannie is a certified Karen Moy Bad Girl. I do wonder why she even bothered to know Michael's name.
Someone should introduce Michael the schlemiel to Medical Assistant Jared. I can see them becoming fast friends as they compare their Star Wars figures.
The leaning against the building is what my mother used to call the "Hey, Sailor" pose. With the smoking, it's sort of cliché.
On the bright side, Michael is clean-shaven, he's not staring into his phone, and he doesn't have heavy-lidded stoner eyes. I like him.
-- S. McW.
August 20, 2015, Toby answers "Hmmph!" as she pours milk on her daily Splak! when Ian meekly says "Good morning, dear". Ian seems to have that effect on the women in his life...
Maybe Toby could pick up some fighting techniques from Katie Hoosier-Cruiser.
@Carlye--there are no 'sort of' cliches in Mary Worth. Every cliche (and there are oh so many of them) is ham-fisted and over the top.
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