"Whelp, I'm off to the hospital for a triple graveyard shift. Definitely won't be home for dinner tonight when you have to tell Margo your plan to break the financial contract you have with her and disappear forever. I'm sure it will be fine though, Margo's been so calm and understanding lately."
On an unrelated note, did they change the lampshades to mauve?
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Maybe when she starts driving out of town forever, that's when we'll find out whether Lily pooped in the car.
Come to think of it, do the three of them share a car? Or do they have three cars? Cars just sort of appear when the characters need them, but I'm not sure it's ever been established who owns the car or cars, if anyone. If whatshername leaves town with the only car (which that deer might or might not have pooped in, depending on whose car was whose) it could begin a new era of "transit dependence" for the other characters. For instance, Margo would have to ride the subway to work. And in this strip, a subway ride would take months, if not years. She'd be trapped in a noisy metal box with a bunch of other people for several seasons, all of them yelling "END! END! END! END!" to try to make the train go faster.
Maybe the characters don't own any actual physical cars but just hallucinate cars whenever they're not in Living Room A or on Streetcorner B. "I'm not in either of the only two backgrounds Frank Bolle can draw! I'm going to pretend I'm driving. Like a grown-up!" That could explain why the cars just sort of come and go, which as anyone who's ever lived in New York will tell you, is impossible. Especially if it's one of the 38 days a year than Manhattan is completely shut down for a parade.
Good question. Do they actually own cars, jointly or separately? Or, as I often asked myself while watching "Seinfeld" , why would you own a car when living in Manhattan? Seems like it would be ten times the trouble and expense as it would anywhere else?
Excellent question! The subject of car ownership has literally never not even once come up in the strip. It seems they just appear when they're needed. Which they could be pulling off with Zipcar, were this a hipper strip. That said, I can't imagine Margo driving, I think she's had a driver all her life, so she probably cabs everywhere. (Again, in a hipper strip, probably Uber.)
MONDAY
Nothing says New York City like turtlenecks and blazers in late June!
Ooh! Today (Monday 6/29) Margo teleported into The Bedroom That Represents All The Buildings In The World! It's an artistic tour-de-force as that lamp and that dresser portray yet another identical location! Lampey and Drapey deserve an Oscar for their versatility.
The way the strip now just consists of disembodied, slightly-melted-looking heads appearing and disappearing in front of that same lamp every day is kind of hypnotic, like if the end of "2001" was a million times longer and had a Farrah Fawcett Fashion Head trundling back and forth on some sort of legless locomotive process.
RE: the title text, isn't Tommie a burn ward nurse? I mean, in addition to being some kind of pediatric nurse and/or mid-wife as well as, I think, some sort of chief nurse? I don't think all of those things have actually been depicted in the strip but I've no doubt they could have been in the service of whichever meandering narrative was convenienced by such a fact.
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