Marc is back! But you knew that. And with him he brings the regular narrative back to life. I think this strip was one of the hardest to conceive for this chapter. Spy Gal started this conversation by throwing a punch, and I knew she couldn’t end it with one. You’d take a journey, internally, if something like this happened to you and you wouldn’t be the same when it was over. Spy Gal has changed, already, from all of this. I’m sure still punch stuff in the future–and maybe even Jerry–but for now, she is taking a different tack.
That said, Jerry’s got one or two more tricks up his sleeve.
Big thanks to everyone for indulging me the past couple weeks with the Q&A strips. If you missed the last one, then you you really missed out. I dropped some sneaky intel on you related to some current mysteries!
“He’s the little boy that Santa Claus forgot,
And goodness knows, he didn’t want a lot.
He sent a note to Santa
For some soldiers and a drum,
It broke his little heart
When he found Santa hadn’t come.”
Cry me a river, Jerry.
What is that from?
It’s an old Nat King Cole song.
I love that Spy Gal’s reaction has changed during this arc, because she grows as a character. Not just development but growth. And I just love when I read stories where there’s such a change because it really shows how many dimensions not just characters have but people, everyone of us have.
I recently read Leo Tolstoi’s Anna Karenina which I adored for various reasons but I think that the best part of the book was that every important and even secondary characters grew and changed and grew. Because that’s real life and Tolstoi was wise enough show and tell how different it can be even in one person.
And it’s important to bring about how Jerry was overlooked, because it’s serious problem in real life and can really damage person. It might even be better to be bullied than be totally ignored. There was news piece in Finnish newspaper about girl who was ignored in her school and her mother wanted to cheer her up by asking people to send her birthday cards, even from complete strangers. Which resulted the girl getting hundreds of cards and one from her favourite band. And while I do think that it doesn’t solve the girls problem, it’s just amazing that people can do something like that just to cheer somebody they don’t know.
And the most beloved author in Finland’s history, Tove Jansson, the creator of Moomins, has small story called The Invisible Child which tells story of one of these easily to be ignored childs in the fashion only Tove Jansson could do. It can be found from Tales from Moominvalley book. If you haven’t read any of her Moomin books or comic books, you definetely should, such a amazing storyteller, one of kind.
So yeah, still enjoying the ride I think. š
I’ve never watched The Sopranos, but one of the stupidest things I ever read was a statement by David Chase, the creator of the show, who stated that one of his beliefs–and the guiding principle that guided his tale of modern day mobsters–is that people don’t change. I believe the complete opposite. People do nothing but change. Any story told that does not acknowledge this basic fact is not one I’m interested in hearing.
Eh. I don’t take David Chase very seriously anyway. The Sopranos was good, but it wasn’t the “OMGTHEBESTESTSHOWEVAR!” the critics tried to pass it off as. The majority of the people who watched it just to live vicariously through Tony.
Chase lost my respect when he rebuked his fans as “violent” for wanting to see Tony get whacked in the end, which is hypocritical for someone who wrote one of the most violent shows on TV.
Also, that ending was a total cop-out. Chase knew that he couldn’t write a satisfying ending, so he just didn’t bother and came up with some lame excuse to pass it off as some kind of big artistic statement. *rolls eyes*
Aaaaand you’re a child in her eyes again.
This.
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