I realize, of course, that Libby the Cat is not talking to Estelle because that would make no sense... but then, very little in this story is making sense... so, hey, maybe it is Libby.
I’m going to go with the idea that Libby is speaking, because that’s much more fun. “My friend” seems like a cool and distant way of addressing Estelle. I realize Libby is a cat, and cool and distant is their thing, but she’s been portrayed as one of those cuddly cats, always in someone’s lap, likes to be held. I would think she’d call Estelle “mommy”.
Is Arthur's crib at Charterstone? I imagine not, else Mary would already be up in his business. I wonder if his vacant place has been burgled? Good thing he's not in the Northeast; his pipes might have burst and the interior would be now completely water damaged. He'd have to move in with Estelle!
True story: a house in my Maine neighborhood was sold. The buyer went in two days before the closing to measure for something. The pipes in the finished attic room had burst and water was actively cascading down the walls in every room. She put the video on her Facebook page! Needless to say, the sale didn't go through.
RobC: Where in Maine? Because my husband and I when we were house hunting in Westbrook, we fell in love with a house that we were overbid and found out we had dodged a bullet because it had the exact same problem.
That would be a great excuse for Arthur Z to use. This would be his telephone conversation:
"Oh my darling, dearest Estelle, I just found out the pipes in our future lovenest broke and I need to come home. My money is tied up in Malaysian futures. Can you send me $10,000 to come home and fix this so we can be together forever. Please make that in Visa debit cards. Thank you my darling darling dearest Estelle."
When I saw today's comic, like everyone else, I thought it was Libby talking. JB is so sick of drawing this dreck, she has decided to add levity to this otherwise idiotic story.
"Yes, Mary, we plan to spend some serious time together. As in married. He didn't actually propose in so many words, but he didn't have to. I know him so well now. We're going to have a lovely wedding and a spectacular honeymoon, and we'll live happily ever after."
And then Arthur introduces Estelle to his family, who have all followed him to Santa Royale: four sketchy kids with various legal and financial problems, two ex-wives who are drawing alimony while they live with their boyfriends, and a dozen or so bratty grandkids. It's going to be great.
I think Libby would refer to Estelle as “meal ticket,” not “my friend.”
I think it’s significant that Estelle is fudging by telling Mary that she and Arthur have been “corresponding.” What about those long, dramatic phone conversations, with Arthur’s declarations of love? Why isn’t Mary’s meddlesense tingling?
Fake! I call fake! Libby the Talking Cat won't lower herself to call Estelle "my friend"!
"My chair", perhaps. "My slave"? Certainly. "You blinking git who can't recognise a scammer if he contacted you on your dating profile"? Of course. But "my friend"? No!
Darth Curt, I am a copywriter so J Peterman is my spirit animal. I totally think that's what Libby's voice would be. I hope Mr Z has a schocking secret to reveal. If it's just straight up fraud I'll be disappointed.
I think Libby is talking and being very sarcastic about it - she knows that once the catfish scheme has been uncovered (most likely by Mary somehow) Estelle will be horribly devastated (again) and need Libby to grasp onto and spoil her even more than before. Otherwise Libby may end up in Animal Shelter once again if Arthur was actually for real.
Ah, the battle of the ellipses. Sensing Mary's potential skepticism, Estelle tempers her romantic fantasies with "... and I MAY feel the same!" Mary deftly parries that with her own ellipsis, which speaks volumes: "That's... GREAT!" Mary's ellipsis includes the unspoken "Estelle, you poor, gullible bubblehead."
Little did I know when I moved to Kittery that it's where O'Hurley hails from. I can definitely imagine him saying "Mary, you're fired" as he said to Elaine more than once.
Today's (Saturday's) panel 2 is identical to 2/22 panel one, except for the scintillating dialog. And Libby's open eye looks a bit whiter today. When I find myself at the Mary Worth website digging through the calendar to compare panels, I know it's time for me to get a life. Sigh...
@Matthew Walls, thanks for linking to Comics for the Blind. Never heard of it, and some of those are hilarious. My favorite is Wilbur creeping around outside Estelle's window,
Sunday: My prediction for this is that "Arthur Z" turns out not to look like his photo, and has gained 100 pounds since it was taken (or his face has become disfigured, or he just used a stock photo from the internet).
On a side note, surely Estelle realizes how ridiculous it is to profess your love to someone you've never met? She's not thirteen.
I was hoping Mary would screech, " Why it's that character Ted Miller!" but alas no.
Estelle, better ask Mystery Lover to submit his tax returns for the past 25 years.
Prediction for the coming week: Mary and Toby will embark on a power walk/gossip session.Toby will bring up Estelle. Mary will mention the budding romance with Arthur Z., and express some vague misgivings. Toby will look bored.
i for one have been loving the way Libby is in almost every frame, and is always checking out what's on the computer screen and listening to )and contributing to?) to, as someone described it earlier, the "scintillating" dialogue. I haven't minded her smile, and the way June draws her stretched out on someone's lap or draped over Mary's shoulder reminds me very much of my Dixie. But even I am creeped out by Libby's face in the third panel from the end. She looks weirdly human. or something. Cat people!
"Piano music" is a weird genre of music to be a fan of. Is that classical? Jazz? Is she a fan of Jerry Lee Lewis? Or maybe Victor Borge? OF course, I guess that's what you would expect someone who listed "multicultural cuisine" as an interest. And Steve G. brings up a good point. Even my mom, who is in her 80s, would be on Google checking this guy out. Is Estelle really that clueless? That's a rhetorical question. Clearly Estelle is that clueless.
Give me strength. If you have to bring up a comment on relationships by Keanu Reeves, arguably one of the WORST actors of all time, your relationship is doomed.Estelle is setting up a week of Mary commenting on the dangers of internet dating and people who profess to love cats but really don't. Zzzzzz....
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Wait wait wait — is this whole storyline about cats, old people and dementia caused by toxoplasmosis?
Never saw it coming.
I’m going to go with the idea that Libby is speaking, because that’s much more fun. “My friend” seems like a cool and distant way of addressing Estelle. I realize Libby is a cat, and cool and distant is their thing, but she’s been portrayed as one of those cuddly cats, always in someone’s lap, likes to be held. I would think she’d call Estelle “mommy”.
Is Arthur's crib at Charterstone? I imagine not, else Mary would already be up in his business. I wonder if his vacant place has been burgled? Good thing he's not in the Northeast; his pipes might have burst and the interior would be now completely water damaged. He'd have to move in with Estelle!
True story: a house in my Maine neighborhood was sold. The buyer went in two days before the closing to measure for something. The pipes in the finished attic room had burst and water was actively cascading down the walls in every room. She put the video on her Facebook page! Needless to say, the sale didn't go through.
Today's Boldface Haiku is titled
"Estelle Stars In Scent Of A Catfish and its sequel Crumbs Of A Muffin".
Online dating?
Terrific!
Handsome, fun, successful
Arthur!
Overseas, returns serious!
Happy!
RobC: Where in Maine? Because my husband and I when we were house hunting in Westbrook, we fell in love with a house that we were overbid and found out we had dodged a bullet because it had the exact same problem.
That would be a great excuse for Arthur Z to use. This would be his telephone conversation:
"Oh my darling, dearest Estelle, I just found out the pipes in our future lovenest broke and I need to come home. My money is tied up in Malaysian futures. Can you send me $10,000 to come home and fix this so we can be together forever. Please make that in Visa debit cards. Thank you my darling darling dearest Estelle."
When I saw today's comic, like everyone else, I thought it was Libby talking. JB is so sick of drawing this dreck, she has decided to add levity to this otherwise idiotic story.
It's even better if you imagine Libby's voice as that of John O'Hurley who played J Peterman on Seinfeld.
"Yes, Mary, we plan to spend some serious time together. As in married. He didn't actually propose in so many words, but he didn't have to. I know him so well now. We're going to have a lovely wedding and a spectacular honeymoon, and we'll live happily ever after."
And then Arthur introduces Estelle to his family, who have all followed him to Santa Royale: four sketchy kids with various legal and financial problems, two ex-wives who are drawing alimony while they live with their boyfriends, and a dozen or so bratty grandkids. It's going to be great.
-- Scottie McW.
I think Libby would refer to Estelle as “meal ticket,” not “my friend.”
I think it’s significant that Estelle is fudging by telling Mary that she and Arthur have been “corresponding.” What about those long, dramatic phone conversations, with Arthur’s declarations of love? Why isn’t Mary’s meddlesense tingling?
Fake! I call fake! Libby the Talking Cat won't lower herself to call Estelle "my friend"!
"My chair", perhaps. "My slave"? Certainly. "You blinking git who can't recognise a scammer if he contacted you on your dating profile"? Of course. But "my friend"? No!
Fake! Fake, I say!
Darth Curt, I am a copywriter so J Peterman is my spirit animal. I totally think that's what Libby's voice would be.
I hope Mr Z has a schocking secret to reveal. If it's just straight up fraud I'll be disappointed.
https://www.facebook.com/ComicsForTheBlind/photos/a.1117499708323991/2562148280525786/
Now I can't get an image out of my head. J. Peterman and Mary Worth having a bore-off, no quarter of interesting dialog asked or given.
It can't be Libby calling Estelle "my friend." Cats ordinarily refer to their live-in humans as "the help."
Haaa, Mary never looked that blissful hugging Dr. Jeff.
-- S. McW.
I think Libby is talking and being very sarcastic about it - she knows that once the catfish scheme has been uncovered (most likely by Mary somehow) Estelle will be horribly devastated (again) and need Libby to grasp onto and spoil her even more than before. Otherwise Libby may end up in Animal Shelter once again if Arthur was actually for real.
Looking forward to what Libby says next!
Silverdater Arthur is a phony ID. It’s really Wilbur.
FRIDAY 03/16 -- So the three dots in Mary's response to Estelle today are her way of saying "...uh...". Mary's meddlesense is tingling.
Ah, the battle of the ellipses. Sensing Mary's potential skepticism, Estelle tempers her romantic fantasies with "... and I MAY feel the same!" Mary deftly parries that with her own ellipsis, which speaks volumes: "That's... GREAT!" Mary's ellipsis includes the unspoken "Estelle, you poor, gullible bubblehead."
That ellipsis is the best writing KM has done in years!
Little did I know when I moved to Kittery that it's where O'Hurley hails from. I can definitely imagine him saying "Mary, you're fired" as he said to Elaine more than once.
Today's (Saturday's) panel 2 is identical to 2/22 panel one, except for the scintillating dialog. And Libby's open eye looks a bit whiter today. When I find myself at the Mary Worth website digging through the calendar to compare panels, I know it's time for me to get a life. Sigh...
@Matthew Walls, thanks for linking to Comics for the Blind. Never heard of it, and some of those are hilarious. My favorite is Wilbur creeping around outside Estelle's window,
Sunday: My prediction for this is that "Arthur Z" turns out not to look like his photo, and has gained 100 pounds since it was taken (or his face has become disfigured, or he just used a stock photo from the internet).
On a side note, surely Estelle realizes how ridiculous it is to profess your love to someone you've never met? She's not thirteen.
Estelle does a Google Image search using Arthur's photo and discovers that it was actually cropped from a Viagra advertisement.
I was hoping Mary would screech, " Why it's that character Ted Miller!" but alas no.
Estelle, better ask Mystery Lover to submit his tax returns for the past 25 years.
Prediction for the coming week: Mary and Toby will embark on a power walk/gossip session.Toby will bring up Estelle. Mary will mention the budding romance with Arthur Z., and express some vague misgivings. Toby will look bored.
i for one have been loving the way Libby is in almost every frame, and is always checking out what's on the computer screen and listening to )and contributing to?) to, as someone described it earlier, the "scintillating" dialogue. I haven't minded her smile, and the way June draws her stretched out on someone's lap or draped over Mary's shoulder reminds me very much of my Dixie. But even I am creeped out by Libby's face in the third panel from the end. She looks weirdly human. or something. Cat people!
"Piano music" is a weird genre of music to be a fan of. Is that classical? Jazz? Is she a fan of Jerry Lee Lewis? Or maybe Victor Borge? OF course, I guess that's what you would expect someone who listed "multicultural cuisine" as an interest. And Steve G. brings up a good point. Even my mom, who is in her 80s, would be on Google checking this guy out. Is Estelle really that clueless? That's a rhetorical question. Clearly Estelle is that clueless.
Give me strength. If you have to bring up a comment on relationships by Keanu Reeves, arguably one of the WORST actors of all time, your relationship is doomed.Estelle is setting up a week of Mary commenting on the dangers of internet dating and people who profess to love cats but really don't. Zzzzzz....
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