Mark H. sends this in. “An explanation of sorts for the timeline juggling that has been part of 9CL for the last few months. Lately, we seem to have skipped about 12 or 14 years, to where Polly and Lolly are now late teenagers.”
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Of course the Energy / mass formula has nothing to do with any of it, apart from bringing in Einstein and letting them toss in some almost-plausible relativistic concerns. But then we note the twins, and think “Twins Paradox!” but no go, here the twins are inseparable. And something like a time dilation effect (and different aging rates) must be going on, only it is between the twins and the parents.
But indeed, as the strip sort of says, that’s more “cartoon physics” than E=mc^2.
Brooke was so eager to start drawing the twins with curves he decided to accelerate the timeline. Dude’s a creep and we should stop giving him attention.
To put the best face on it, Brooke wants to skip over the boring parts of the girls growing up (potty training, zits, etc.) and concentrate on the fun parts. But Powers may be right – the strips in the last two weeks looked a little ménage à trois to me.
I definitely agree with Powers @2; I quit following anything McEldowney wrote several years ago, primarily because his incessent s0ft c0re c0mic p0rn was getting so tediously tiresome.
P.S. Note that as the girls’ legs grow longer, their pants (and shirts!) get shorter, and that’s not a “relative” comparison, but in “absolute” terms.
Has the twins being airborne been a regular thing in this strip (e.g. an odd superpower)?
Feels like he started with a Twin Paradox gag, then decided that was too obscure for the Beefwits of the Public, and picked the most famous Einstein reference without worrying about if it made sense. After all, the wise and clever Brooke knew and understood the real joke, and that was all that mattered.
Dream sequence. Ended yesterday.
Ever since his stroke, Brooke has only done the soft core porn stuff. He doesn’t seem to be able to do any other kinds of stories with puns or punchlines any more. Apparently his daughter helps him up to a point. He hasn’t signed a Pibgorn since his stroke. GoComics ran the old 9CL strips for awhile, and they were refreshing, but they stopped. Like others above, I’ve also given up on 9CL — same ol’, same ol’.
The sad thing is, he’s a very talented artist, and the early 9CL strips demonstrate a keen sense of humor. He’s just been doing it too long. There must be an audience for this, though.
Another strip doing time-excursion messing-around.
Not only time-hopping, but semi-out-of-body. Young Hil is still with (sort of) her parents walking in NYC. And she already did a bit of “Back to the Future” in previous arc.
I am pretty sure that in the last panel it shows them in them in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. I know that tapestry with the unicorn from when my parents belonged to same and took us there often in the 1960s. (They wanted us to be “cultured” plus dad had numerous clients who were artists and one client who owned a major Soho gallery. I still have one of the artists as a client.)
In Wiley’s “Non-Sequitur“, Danae’s sister Kate is currently experiencing an episode of accelerated decrepitude:
There is a difference between reasonable critique and kvetching. There is an awful lot of complaining about the creative efforts of comic artists on this site. If your tastes or somewhat victorian senses of propriety are offended stop reading the funny pages and stick with Washington’s Rules of Civility and Decent Behaviour…
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Of course the Energy / mass formula has nothing to do with any of it, apart from bringing in Einstein and letting them toss in some almost-plausible relativistic concerns. But then we note the twins, and think “Twins Paradox!” but no go, here the twins are inseparable. And something like a time dilation effect (and different aging rates) must be going on, only it is between the twins and the parents.
But indeed, as the strip sort of says, that’s more “cartoon physics” than E=mc^2.
Brooke was so eager to start drawing the twins with curves he decided to accelerate the timeline. Dude’s a creep and we should stop giving him attention.
To put the best face on it, Brooke wants to skip over the boring parts of the girls growing up (potty training, zits, etc.) and concentrate on the fun parts. But Powers may be right – the strips in the last two weeks looked a little ménage à trois to me.
I definitely agree with Powers @2; I quit following anything McEldowney wrote several years ago, primarily because his incessent s0ft c0re c0mic p0rn was getting so tediously tiresome.
P.S. Note that as the girls’ legs grow longer, their pants (and shirts!) get shorter, and that’s not a “relative” comparison, but in “absolute” terms.
Has the twins being airborne been a regular thing in this strip (e.g. an odd superpower)?
Feels like he started with a Twin Paradox gag, then decided that was too obscure for the Beefwits of the Public, and picked the most famous Einstein reference without worrying about if it made sense. After all, the wise and clever Brooke knew and understood the real joke, and that was all that mattered.
Dream sequence. Ended yesterday.
Ever since his stroke, Brooke has only done the soft core porn stuff. He doesn’t seem to be able to do any other kinds of stories with puns or punchlines any more. Apparently his daughter helps him up to a point. He hasn’t signed a Pibgorn since his stroke. GoComics ran the old 9CL strips for awhile, and they were refreshing, but they stopped. Like others above, I’ve also given up on 9CL — same ol’, same ol’.
The sad thing is, he’s a very talented artist, and the early 9CL strips demonstrate a keen sense of humor. He’s just been doing it too long. There must be an audience for this, though.
Another strip doing time-excursion messing-around.
Not only time-hopping, but semi-out-of-body. Young Hil is still with (sort of) her parents walking in NYC. And she already did a bit of “Back to the Future” in previous arc.
I am pretty sure that in the last panel it shows them in them in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. I know that tapestry with the unicorn from when my parents belonged to same and took us there often in the 1960s. (They wanted us to be “cultured” plus dad had numerous clients who were artists and one client who owned a major Soho gallery. I still have one of the artists as a client.)
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/467642
In Wiley’s “Non-Sequitur“, Danae’s sister Kate is currently experiencing an episode of accelerated decrepitude:
There is a difference between reasonable critique and kvetching. There is an awful lot of complaining about the creative efforts of comic artists on this site. If your tastes or somewhat victorian senses of propriety are offended stop reading the funny pages and stick with Washington’s Rules of Civility and Decent Behaviour…