Happy foob year!

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I love jazz!  I grew up with it.  So it really bugs me when Elly and Lynn show their usual disrespect for it.  (For a prime example, go to the "strip catalog" part of the foob site and enter "discordant" as your keyword search.)  So I wanted to show some respect and imagine that Phil and his band would be playing this:

Notice how Miles Davis makes no "tattica" sounds with his trumpet. ;)

Emmy "Killjoy" Yammerson

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The conversation before the gobsmack

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I'd heard that today's official foob would feature Mike, Phil, and an Elly gobsmack.  I wanted to make a reference to that, but not seeing the strip, I had no way to know what Mike and Phil would be wearing--hence the wardrobe change Phil suggests in the last panel.

Michael makes good use of his mother's poor opinion of him

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Notice that I made Francoise shorter than Robin, as she's supposed be, considering she is four months younger than he is.

Timewarp Holidays

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The strip that explains about sending objects across time through the crawlspace was on July 3, 2009.

Yammersons and Santa Mom

Recycled art for a recycled story arc

So, Lynn appears to be doing another iteration of the Phil-Connie storyline that she did prematurely during Christmas 2008/New Year's 2009 and seemed to wrap up back in February.  Then she probably realized she has to bring them together again if she wants to reprint the "Connie chases after Phil by going to Montreal" arc.  So in honor of that SNAFUiness is a repeat of the January 2, 2009 art, but with shiny new dialogue.

Anne was really only joking... about joking

Pre-holiday Yammersons

Lawrence overhears

Yammersons and Santa Mom

When Mike gets his turn

I know that's a pretty wonky-looking Santa and elves. Sometimes it goes that way....

Another thing Canon Connie will never say

...Not that I can even tell you what it would mean to beat the Ontario off of someone, but I enjoyed the sound of it.

She can't even make friends in her head

Phil also hates shopping for Elly

An Awful Awareness

There's slow and there's SLOW

How many of us could resist the urge to mess with Elly's head?

The Christmas Letter You Never Wanted

The Horror