As predicted. Mike just tells his parents what he is going to do, and they just pay for it. The joys of being rich! It’s good to have a father who is a dentist running his own practice in Canada.
Lynn Johnston had a note a few years back talking about how she was imitating a particular artist who liked the no-eye look whenever a character was telling a joke. She has been doing it a lot over the last few years.
You will never see Elly Patterson use a debit card to pay for anything. She still types on a typewriter. She is going to be writing cheques to the end of this comic strip.
Times have changed. It used to be a kid could work and make enough money to pay for college. No more. I told my kids if they found a job that could pay the $100K it takes to go to a state university, they should just keep that job. Also, you want the kid to move out but the apartment rents are sky high. My son stayed at home rent free working until he was able to put the downpayment together on a house, which is also sky high. We had success there, but not if he was paying money to me for rent to live in our house or dropping thousands in rent money for an apartment.
That is the direction they are headed with plans to demolish the Department of Education that currently handles all stuff like Pell Grants and the like.
Farley has become one of The Missing, a character gone and replaced so quickly that no one in his comic strip misses him. Unfortunately for Lynn Johnston, the fans missed Farley and they even created a charity in his name. So much merchandising money gone. Charles Schulz was right not to kill him off. What ended up being The Missing was the money she could have made.
In real life that is true. In this comic strip, however, the characters just hang on. Martha wanted to get back with Michael after they broke up. Anthony and Elizabeth have broken up twice now and are still together.
The author wrote in her 10th anniversary collection about the nerdy guy at the high school reunion that all the girls wished they had dated instead of ignoring. This theme runs through the comic strip as the characters are constantly going back to relationships they should have grown apart from.
As predicted. Mike just tells his parents what he is going to do, and they just pay for it. The joys of being rich! It’s good to have a father who is a dentist running his own practice in Canada.