Who comes off better here, Lila or Annie?
Does Lila simply not follow the more technical description, or is she saying “but that’s not how to think of it, at a personal level”? I’m not sure we credit her with that maturity though.
BTW, I think the adoption has already officially gone thru at this point in the cycle, but it’s still more reasonable for Lila to say “my dad” in the first panel than try to use “your granddad”.
Sender Dana K and I were in minor disagreement over whether the word-play element here is pun-like enough to count as an OY. “Neg/Q Scope Ambiguity” is certainly there potentially in the 3rd panel; but it’s not clearly intentional, and even less the point of the gag.
This Moderately Confused sent in by Rob is in what we might dub the “foibles funnies” genre:
Two funny bits that seem like they might belong more to winter publication. The Kliban of course is a reprint from ages ago, so that makes sense. And the Liz Climo is funny any time. Also noticed by Andréa and used in a comment!
A double dose of holiday cheer from Falco:
You don’t actually need more backstory than you can pick up from the context here.
This comic ended in 2012, and is in reruns. But apparently someone is working to update the comics, and keep the date “right.”
I have mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, I’m impressed that they’re keeping things in sync enough that a post-New Years comic is running a little after January 1st, and that someone is actually reading the comic and noticing that the year needs updating. On the other hand, I find it a little jarring to see the date changed on old comics to makes storylines “recent,” when I remember them occurring a decade ago. And on the gripping hand, I find it immensely jarring to see these characters discussing how “a lot happened in 2020,” and not including the most prominent and obvious thing that happened in 2020.
What do you think?
(And as a side note: Does listing all the things that happened during the year seem like a strange response to “Where did [the year] go?”)
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