I once took a really, hot-looking Filipina to dinner at a Chinese restaurant. She didn’t know how to use chopsticks so I had to guide her by putting my arm around her to show her how. 45 years later, she still doesn’t know how to use them. The point is that you can get a bit closer to someone when they need help to do something that they don’t know how to do.
Today Aubee reclaims her title of “ugliest kid in the comics” with her solid blue sclera, Medusa-like hairdo, and a neck that looks like it is fused so it can’t turn. The GA kids make the Hellspawn twins in 9CL look positively appealing.
I think his comment is a reference to Wimpy in “Thimble Theatre” who, whenever somebody wanted to fight Wimpy would say, “Jones is my name….I’m one of the Jones boys” to avoid the confrontation.
A post from Poteet on the Curmudgeon today as follows: “I hereby pronounce Aubee the weirdest-looking of the alleged space travelers.” I dunno with Ava Luna sporting eyes from Village of the D@mned and “Jones” looking like he’s gotten into the ugly pills again.
King and then Moores used to have Christmas themed arcs that built to a natural ending at Christmas. Those stories centered around family and the joyous, yet stressful, feelings of the holiday. But it’s tough to do when the writer hasn’t developed any of the families and the reader can’t relate to any, or care about, of the characters.
Not soon enough.