Never Violin the Code of the Hills
Welcome again, Comics Curmudgeon readers! I noticed yesterday night a big bump in my readership stats, and lo and behold, Josh was kind enough to link here a second time. Thanks to him and thanks to you for visiting.
Now, to today’s comic.
First off, Pye family, Sturdivant isn’t really violining the code of the hills. He’s violining the code of every marriage that’s ever happened. So don’t claim moral superiority just because you live under a bridge and smell bad. In today’s political climate, I would never give an opening to accusations of being an elitist by claiming that I’m better than you, but I am not gonna let you do so either.
Second, why the outrage, Joe? Yeah, Sturdy’s doing something pretty crappy to your grandchild. You know, the one you aren’t in contact with anymore. More importantly, the one you’re planning to rob or embezzle or extort from or something. So it’s okay for you to be extremely crappy but not for him? Frankly, if you actually care about your granddaughter, it’s been really obvious that that not marrying Sturdy is the right thing for her. So this outrage: Not accepting it!
And finally, Sturdivant and Ada are still kissing. Just like in the old Big Red commercials. And she’s still not resisting, so flop-sweat aside, she’s enjoying it. I think that makes her just as culpable as him.
Things of note today:
Apparently “2-timin’” is way hick-ier than “two-timin’”. No word yet on the difference in pronunciation.
That word “violated” they’re carefully and oh-so-humorously avoiding is a pretty loaded one in this context. Is it evidence that Sturdy’s attentions are in fact unwelcome, despite current appearances?
Comment by PO8 — April 26, 2008 @ 9:46 pm
BTW, I’m just now belatedly noticing that Red Tommy, Joe Pye’s apparent son, seems younger than Amanda, Joe’s granddaughter…
Comment by PO8 — April 26, 2008 @ 9:50 pm
I started reading GA when the ‘Mudge linked it the first time, so I humbly admit to being floored by how anti-sane it really is. Isn’t this, like, exactly what the Pyes were looking for - that is, some lever to squeeze as much money out of the Kleebs as possible? Now they don’t even have to panhandle Amanda! Hobo logic escapes me. Need more Thunderbird.
Comment by St. Bacchus — April 27, 2008 @ 3:04 am
Ah, but the code of the hills puts family honor above money, no matter how high on the list money is. And now that grand-baby Amanda has been wronged by her husband-to-be, it’s vengeance before scam.
I also don’t think that Ada is participating willingly and certainly not enjoying it; the way she’s drawn in the last strip wasn’t the posture of a woman who was participating in a kiss– she’s got her shoulders up and head pulled back, and Sturdy is holding her by the upper arms, and her eyes are open. All of those are contrary to the position of the body in an enjoyable kiss. While the drawing is not as clear in this strip, she still hasn’t relaxed her posture at all; she’s not leaning into the kiss, there’s no indication that she’s enjoying it at all to me. Add in the flop sweat and the exclamation points, and I see a cartoonist making it fairly clear that Sturdy has crossed the line here.
Comment by rabrab — April 27, 2008 @ 6:02 am
Given due consideration to all of the above points, rabrab, there still remains the fact that Ada hasn’t given him a knobby, Gasoline Alley-style knee to the groin just yet, which suggests Sturdy’s a lot more magnetic than he’s been given credit for, or else Ada takes an unusually long time for normal bodily responses to passion to kick in, which is a possibility that would likely take no one here by any great surprise.
Comment by Henryjames'lovechild — April 27, 2008 @ 7:33 am
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No, I think the code of the hills proscribes pre-marital sister-smoochin’. At normal weddings the saying is, “You may now kiss the bride.” At hillbilly weddings it goes, “You may now kiss the bride, and any others in her fam’ly you want.”
Comment by TheCasey — April 28, 2008 @ 12:51 pm
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