Banana just seems to be a word Lynn made up in an attempt to speak in a “hip” way. Unfortunately, her complete and utter tin ear for slang (cf. any strip involving April and her friends) betrays her once again.
Either that, or she asked her brother for some beat-speak, and he knew she’d use it to do a hatchet-job with his comics alter-ego, so he fed her a particularly preposterous one, not realizing that thirty years later people on comments boards would be analyzing the blasted thing like Talmudic scholars.
Banana just seems to be a word Lynn made up in an attempt to speak in a “hip” way. Unfortunately, her complete and utter tin ear for slang (cf. any strip involving April and her friends) betrays her once again.
Either that, or she asked her brother for some beat-speak, and he knew she’d use it to do a hatchet-job with his comics alter-ego, so he fed her a particularly preposterous one, not realizing that thirty years later people on comments boards would be analyzing the blasted thing like Talmudic scholars.