Vitamin’s lines are from the beginning of the third and final act of the play:
This time nine years have gone by, friends, summer, 1913. Gradual changes in Grover’s Corners. Horses are getting rarer. Farmers coming into town in Fords.
Everybody locks their house doors now at night. Ain’t been any burglars in town yet, but everybody’s heard about ’em.
…
This is certainly an important part of Grover’s Corners. It’s on a hilltop a windy hilltop lots of sky, lots of clouds, often lots of sun and moon and stars. You come up here, on a fine afternoon and you can see range on range of hills awful blue they are …
… there, quite a ways down, is Grover’s Corners. Yes, beautiful spot up here. Mountain laurel and li-lacks. I often wonder why people like to be buried in Woodlawn and Brooklyn when they might pass the same time up here in New Hampshire….
That “camera” KK is wielding looks like a cross between an old Brownie and an overhead projector. I’m not well versed in vintage photo equipment — anyone know if that’s based on an actual medium-format still camera or some sort of videocam?
1- SUGAR DADDY: I hope you in the audience won’t mind if I read my lines from this notepad. My memory isn’t what it once was. HECKLER: WHEN WAS THAT? 40 YEARS AGO? SUGAR DADDY: Also, as this is opening night, my wife Barber will be filming. I truly hope the presence of the camera will not distract you in any way. HECKLER: TELL HER TO PUT ON MORE PERFUME. THIS SHOW STINKS! 2- SUGAR DADDY: Darling, could you ask your mother to be quiet. BARBER: Shutup! I’m trying to find your good side. Try turning around. Yes, much better.
Tsull2121..The reason is to give Neil a chance to show off his English major education. Seen the play and the film, didn’t need the synopsis. Next up, Marc Antony’s funeral speech.
And so it does, with Vitamin Flintheart, beloved veteran of stage and screen, delivering Wilder’s lines with all the gusto only a confidant actor can muster (when I see and hear Vitamin, I also see and hear Vincent Price, a rôle model indeed). I grant Joe a little artistic license in panel 3’s perspective and deem that Kandikane is video-taping from the wings (in this case, stage right) and cannot actually be seen by the audience unless perhaps those seated in the far right spit seats of the Patterson….
As I mentioned in yesterday’s strip, everything was going smoothly in this story until P3 of yesterday’s W 8/28/19 strip where Lizz describing Doc ODing just seemed to come out of nowhere. My theory is that originally there was going to be a strip, that was either going to be the Tu 8/27/19 strip or originally the W 8/28/19 strip that was going to show Doc collapsing from an OD, but that censorship blocked that at the last minute. I think that last day’s strip, what’s now the W 8/28/19 strip was originally going to be this day’s strip, the Th 8/29/19 strip. I also think that this day’s strip, what is now the Th 8/29/19 strip was originally going to be the F 8/30/19 strip. I suspect the Sa 8/31/19 strip didn’t have to be changed at all.
OTOH, this day’s strip does flow naturally into the next day’s strip. An alternative theory is that when what would’ve been the Th 8/29/19 strip was moved up to become what’s now the W 8/28/19 strip, that the last 3 daily strips of this week were reworked to give us a slightly different ending.
Neil Wick about 5 years ago
Good morning™, opening night audience!
Vitamin’s lines are from the beginning of the third and final act of the play:
This time nine years have gone by, friends, summer, 1913. Gradual changes in Grover’s Corners. Horses are getting rarer. Farmers coming into town in Fords.
Everybody locks their house doors now at night. Ain’t been any burglars in town yet, but everybody’s heard about ’em.
…
This is certainly an important part of Grover’s Corners. It’s on a hilltop a windy hilltop lots of sky, lots of clouds, often lots of sun and moon and stars. You come up here, on a fine afternoon and you can see range on range of hills awful blue they are …
… there, quite a ways down, is Grover’s Corners. Yes, beautiful spot up here. Mountain laurel and li-lacks. I often wonder why people like to be buried in Woodlawn and Brooklyn when they might pass the same time up here in New Hampshire….
This scene takes place in the town cemetery.
DaJellyBelly about 5 years ago
Regardless of what has happened. * The show MUST GO ON! *
AnyFace about 5 years ago
HarryCK about 5 years ago
Good morning™, opening night, recorders !
I hope there are no further incidents.
HarryCK about 5 years ago
Two more days should give a little story detail wrap and perhaps a preview to the next story before the M.M. cuts in.
artsyguy65 about 5 years ago
That “camera” KK is wielding looks like a cross between an old Brownie and an overhead projector. I’m not well versed in vintage photo equipment — anyone know if that’s based on an actual medium-format still camera or some sort of videocam?
blunebottle about 5 years ago
As usual, we are disappointed with the lack of information as to what transpired in the last strip. This will wrap up with no explanation, I expect.
bluegirl285 about 5 years ago
So, is Doc dead or what?
iggyman about 5 years ago
All of a sudden I smell ham!
Gent about 5 years ago
Uh… What? What was all that talk yesterday about? Now outta nowhere, this scene? It’s called segueing?
pvl about 5 years ago
Vitamin needs to be killled off.
Another Take about 5 years ago
1- SUGAR DADDY: I hope you in the audience won’t mind if I read my lines from this notepad. My memory isn’t what it once was. HECKLER: WHEN WAS THAT? 40 YEARS AGO? SUGAR DADDY: Also, as this is opening night, my wife Barber will be filming. I truly hope the presence of the camera will not distract you in any way. HECKLER: TELL HER TO PUT ON MORE PERFUME. THIS SHOW STINKS! 2- SUGAR DADDY: Darling, could you ask your mother to be quiet. BARBER: Shutup! I’m trying to find your good side. Try turning around. Yes, much better.
GoComicsGo! about 5 years ago
Wow. Two days in a row I’ll get to see the DT Critics Society in action. My heart palpitations! Tell Laura I love her and tell Elizabeth I’m coming!
tsull2121 about 5 years ago
And the reason for this is…… what exactly?
buckman-j about 5 years ago
Tsull2121..The reason is to give Neil a chance to show off his English major education. Seen the play and the film, didn’t need the synopsis. Next up, Marc Antony’s funeral speech.
Sisyphos about 5 years ago
The show must go on!
And so it does, with Vitamin Flintheart, beloved veteran of stage and screen, delivering Wilder’s lines with all the gusto only a confidant actor can muster (when I see and hear Vitamin, I also see and hear Vincent Price, a rôle model indeed). I grant Joe a little artistic license in panel 3’s perspective and deem that Kandikane is video-taping from the wings (in this case, stage right) and cannot actually be seen by the audience unless perhaps those seated in the far right spit seats of the Patterson….
Jim Douglas about 5 years ago
It’s a comic, picky
boboscar about 1 year ago
Retroactively theorizing on the inexplicable
As I mentioned in yesterday’s strip, everything was going smoothly in this story until P3 of yesterday’s W 8/28/19 strip where Lizz describing Doc ODing just seemed to come out of nowhere. My theory is that originally there was going to be a strip, that was either going to be the Tu 8/27/19 strip or originally the W 8/28/19 strip that was going to show Doc collapsing from an OD, but that censorship blocked that at the last minute. I think that last day’s strip, what’s now the W 8/28/19 strip was originally going to be this day’s strip, the Th 8/29/19 strip. I also think that this day’s strip, what is now the Th 8/29/19 strip was originally going to be the F 8/30/19 strip. I suspect the Sa 8/31/19 strip didn’t have to be changed at all.
OTOH, this day’s strip does flow naturally into the next day’s strip. An alternative theory is that when what would’ve been the Th 8/29/19 strip was moved up to become what’s now the W 8/28/19 strip, that the last 3 daily strips of this week were reworked to give us a slightly different ending.