Cliches and Antisanity Don’t Mix
Well, Sturdy’s gotten his tongue out of his fiancee’s sister, so that’s a good thing, I guess. But it’s tough to be too delighted by this strip.
Scancarelli’s using the rather moldy cliche of stopping the wedding at the very last minute. Has any fictitious wedding ever not been stopped by this? (I exaggerate slightly, but the weddings that weren’t stopped by hillbillies rushing in at the last second all ended in divorce or elaborate murder-suicide schemes, so I feel comfortable in my overly broad blanket statement.) There’s so many more creative things that could be done. Amanda Lynn could finally grow a spine and bitchslap the guy. Ada could tell Amanda Lynn that he’s been kissing her and that she likes it. Teeka could kill him with “gourmet” cooking. Mr. and Mrs. Kleeb could be eaten by bears. The entire Kleeb family and their family of businesses could get caught up in Enron-style corporate scandal and be sent to jail for, like, six weeks or something.
And one more thing. A white dress? Really?
Yeargh…after a long stretch of molasses-slow anti-development, the plot’s now time-jumping wildly. I could tolerate the Homeless Hobo Homeys teleporting from their Ditch Sweet Ditch straight to the target domicile, but the quantum leap from yesterday’s strip to this one has left me on all fours, ralphing into the shag.
At least Amanda Ginger Amber Lynn looks legal now. When I first revisited GA in the middle of this muddle, it looked like Sturdy was bangin’ the not-even-barelies.
Comment by Happenstance — April 29, 2008 @ 12:53 am
Things of note today:
The Reverend could pronounce the couple Man and Wife in his sleep—indeed, he apparently is doing so in the second frame. His arthritis-gnarled left hand is poised in a bizarre Scancarelli wedding gang-sign.
Because of the abrupt jump, we still don’t know how Sturdy and Ada broke off, so it’s still ambiguous whether Sturdy was being coercively unfaithful or just unfaithful.
Comment by PO8 — April 29, 2008 @ 2:55 am
Also, in the last panel Amanda stares horrified at Sturdy’s right arm, which appears to have become disconnected from his body in his surprise.
Comment by PO8 — April 29, 2008 @ 2:57 am
Well, think of her options. The only other available color is black, and I doubt the in-laws would approve of a Goth Wedding.
Comment by Reynard Noir — April 29, 2008 @ 11:38 am
Is it possible to interrupt a wedding at any other point? I’m admittedly fuzzy on the stages of a wedding, but surely you can do something like discreetly inform the bride before the ceremony goes ahead, to spare her all the trouble of going through the process. Or you could, y’know, cite a little-known passage from the Code of the Hills, and club the guy with a wrench. (which guy? the priest? the groom? the father of the bridge? ALL OF THE ABOVE?! the code is silent on this divisive issue)
Comment by Džefs — April 29, 2008 @ 11:38 am