Something Feels Ominous

Dear diary,

Fell asleep in my clothes again. Woke up to find my hair back to its full raven luster again. (Clairol's "Easy to Use While You Snooze" Root Touch-Up does it again!)

Starting not to understand my own logic with the psychic stuff—if I do believe in spirits and mediums, wouldn't it follow that I should feel something ominous? Is it my mom, still lingering in the apartment? Is it my framed print of the Ninth Gate? Is it my two-in-one fire blanket and comforter?

Oh well. Have a long day of shutting out my loved ones ahead, better get started.

xoxo,

Gabbers

Your Mother and the Angels

Happy Mother's Day! I hope everyone is enjoying this story, in which a mother instantly suspects her own daughter of "evil intentions" because of something an obvious grifter told her. Basically the only way I can believe this strip at all anymore is if Diane Devine is hypnotizing Gabriella with Jafar's scepter just off panel.

Evil Intentions

Wednesday, May 6

Thursday, May 7

Maybe someone like, physically, uncomfortably close to you at this present moment. Someone who looks way too psyched to be telling you that someone close to you wishes you harm.

Omens and Portents

Things that the Ghost of Gabriella's Mother is afraid of:

1) The constant changing of Gabby's hair color is doing serious damage to her follicles, and she hopes she is using the right conditioner.
2) If Diane doesn't keep stalling that Gabby will be incredibly disappointed in how lame the ghostly warning is.
3) That her daughter could be gullible to believe a psychic who wears a turtleneck.
4) Diane's deformed hand.

Watching Over You

If my dead mother somehow willed her voice across the River Styx to the land of the living with a message to warn me, why didn't she, um, warn me about anything?

Warning Shot

 

"Diane, while you went into the other room, I heard my dead mother's voice!  I mean she sounded different, but the voice said it was my mother.  How is this possible?  Are you able to conjure the dead and change my hair color at will?  It can't possibly be that a charlatan is playing on my sterotypical ethnic, old world superstitions to bilk me out of the money I will get when I marry a rich guy?  IT'S NOT POSSIBLE!"

Medium

Thursday April 30, 2015

Friday May 1, 2015

Okay, help me out here guys. Is this suggesting that Diane just straight up strolled into the other room without the benefit of sleight of hand or misdirection or even just turning off the lights, and, I don't know, maybe put on a shawl and a fake voice—the voice of a mother she never could have possibly met—and that Gabby is BUYING it?? Is that what's happening, guys?

Martin, I know we derided you for not even entertaining the validity of Gabriella's beliefs, but Operation "You Don't Have to Take Her Beliefs Seriously, She's Just a Silly Woman" is in full swing here. Time to grab a fire ax and break down the door. Gabby is trapped by the flames of this swindler's hoodwinkery and she needs your help!