Margo and All

Well how damn cavalier of Tim to support his brother, who literally moved mountains (in an avalanche) to rescue him. Also, I agree with Casey, I don't know where this aggression towards Margo is coming from, she totally did grieve, in her halting Margo-like way. But yeah, THANKS Tim, for fighting through your Margo-related hang-ups to support your brother.

Also, doesn't anyone have a job in this strip? These two boobs are just wandering the streets waiting to bump into Margo? Reclaim the Mills Gallery, Eric! Lu Ann won't be there anymore to louse it up with her squiggle art!

Long Ago

Wednesday, August 19

What??? One-panel A3G?? And like, clearly driven by sheer laziness right? Shulock was all, "Eh, I can't think of another way to repeat the exact same sentiments in another panel... Frank, could you just draw this all as one panel and have some completely random and irrelevant woman in-frame so that it seems like there's some purpose to the one-panel format? Don't worry, by tomorrow everyone will forget she was ever there." I will say, maybe they should just keep this format - Frank's art seems slightly better when he has more space to work with, and the dialogue never really warrants two panels anyway, right?

Thursday, August 20

Hey Tim, what the hell, man?? Margo totally grieved and went to freaking India for him! India! Also, how could you say that after you shared such a touching moment?
But no need to grieve for her, Eric, she had that fat wad of cash you left her so she was cool. Hey, can he take that back from her since he's alive?

Vague Talk

I think I'm in agreement with Maggie's comments from a while back.  At this point, the art is what it is.  Frank puts in characters that would pass in a lineup for the people who they are supposed to be, slaps in minor background detail so we know if we're inside or outside and we go with it because he's 90.  I'm not even going to comment on how Tim's part changes between the first and the second strip because that's not even why I'm mad.

But the writing is just terrible.  I mean you only have two panels.  That's at most three talking/thought bubbles?  But every...single...day a character says something incredibly vague with their thought bubble like "Margo is not what you think," which is completely incongruous to anything that has ever happened in the strip.  It's mostly that it's poor writing, but as a blogger who has to comment on this it's excruciating.  End of rant.

She's a Mess

I gave a long explanation about the Mills brothers in the comments of last Friday's strip, but the summary is: Eric saved Tim from rotting away in a Chinese prison, and then disappeared in an avalanche. And Margo got to meet the Dalai Lama. It's worth looking in the LLoA3G archives for July to August 2008 to see Margo in India. The white part of India, I mean.

 Anyway, the fact that the Ghost of Eric Mills is now having a conversation with his brother Tim likely means that Eric isn't a one of Margo's hallucinations, but is actually just your typical soap opera avalanche survivor. I am shocked that he didn't come back with an eyepatch and amnesia.

Blast from the Past

Whoa!  Eric Mills of the avalanche/art gallery fame?  It looks like his time underneath that massive Nepalese snowdrift has aged him prematurely.   So much so that Margo hasn't recognized him the three or four times he's riddled her in the streets.

I'll leave it to Maggie to give us all the scoop on the Brothers Mills.

You Need Help

Thanks but no thanks, random stranger dude who's probably some form of Eric Mills! Margo's ready for a fight. With one upward stroke of her index finger, she's obliterated Main Street, USA. Next, it'll be your almost-but-not-quite-matching blazer. Margo don't play.

Eric Appears and...

Whoa, did the narration box just spill some major beans about our perfect stranger? Is this Eric? Eric Mills? Eric Mills of "The Mills Gallery" fame? Eric Mills, assumed to have perished in an avalanche? Eric Mills, who left Margo a boatload of money? Eric Mills, whom Margo cried brave tears over? Eric Mills, who gets his spot blown up by the freaking narration box??

Well, nice to have him back I guess? And Margo doesn't know yet, so of course, she makes the natural assumption that he's The Spy Who Is Trying to Make Me Crazy... the lesser acclaimed sequel to The Spy Who Loved Me. This is the hallucinogenic gas leak talking, mark my words.