Jim's just dead I guess. Man! Jim was in exactly two weeks of strips, and while he was instantly fast-tracked to the rank of "fiancee," his death feels a smidge too soon for my taste. I feel like the cat that catches a mouse and kills it before she's done playing with it.
Oh well. I guess we can all still root for an extended storyline of Margo and Lu Ann thinking Tommie just totally made up her boyfriend!
BONUS FOOTAGE: planes crashing and people screaming "NO!!!" always remind me of Star Fox 64.
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Wow, Rose sure moves through stages of grief quickly. In one brief (?) phone conversation she goes from heart-broken and crying to smiling and quite content with the state of affairs.
Okay, I take it back. Dibs on the conspiracy theory! I'm right with you, Mags.
Oh wait, that would be interesting so...
Dammit!
"That's implausible for so many reasons"
Mostly because it is a Tommie plot. Think about this if it were a Margo one.
Say after following Lu Ann's latest confused adventure, Margo suddenly returns from overseas with a love interest. He leaves after an exciting night of humiliation and degradation, and then Margo gets a call from his mother saying he is dead.
You can certainly imagine this plot, we can expect an exciting 4-6 months of adventures, involving travel and outdoor scenes not ripped from Mark Trail.
But because it is Tommie we assume nothing. Nobody cares about Tommie because we know nothing about her except that she is timid even by mousey standards. After all if you have ever battled a field mouse invasion it is obvious they get a lot more action than Tommie.
Any guy who gets involved with one of these women ends up dead (unless they're dumped, the lucky ones). Just think about it.
There's always the problem of how to dispose of Lily's body. Surely she's perished by now, not having been fed for two weeks or so...
I guess we'll get something like, "I have a friend who has a pet farm upstate, Tommie. Lily will love it up there!!"
And Tommie just spent all that $$$ on he-man food. Can you return a leg of lamb????
"No, NO, NO!!! Now Margo will NEVER believe me! Rose, can you just quickly tell Margo that I did totally have a fiance? And that he's dead? Real, but dead?"
Thanks for the StarFox flashback! Aw, poor Slippy!
I think Jim isn't dead. He just doesn't want to go back to that boring Tommie, so he's getting his mommy to do the dirty work for him. Poor Tommie! She needs to cuddle a bit with Lily.
Wow, Jim will go through any lengths to break up with a girl, such as having his mom call her and tell her he's dead. But then again, maybe that's the safest bet in Jim's eyes. I mean really... here you have a woman who lives in an apartment, with a vicious sociopath and a woman with the mental capacity of a 4-year old, who allows their NYC apartment to be trashed and defecated in by a live fawn. And they are all perfectly fine with this and think it's normal. Jim, delirious with terror, fears for his life after realizing he's with a bunch of psychopaths. I'm betting he reasoned that if he broke up with her "normally", they would all pounce on them like a starving pack of hyenas. Can you blame him? I certainly don't, and I also wouldn't blame him if he just didn't want to explain the fact that he butchered Lily and made some delicious venison jerky.
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