Mike's strange behavio[u]r

Retcon Artist

I'm assuming the "Elly goes to night school" arc is still coming

Mr. Shadbolt

Gambling that this will be the day the "It's OK, Mr. Shadbolt... She's my wife" strip appears.

A lead-in for tomorrow

Since I already prematurely snarked on the "That was when I still enjoyed working" strip this past Friday, I decided to create a lead-in for the strip I expect to see reprinted tomorrow. (dreadedcandiru2, I know you read the guy in that strip as Dr. Ted, but I decided he looked different enough to be a whole other jerkish colleague of John's.)

Shania-Ann is there because Lynn decided to update her original reference to a hygienist who resembles Cheryl Ladd to one who looks like Shania Twain. Then we had some strips where we see a hygienist who resembles April Patterson, which of course led to my Foobars in which April was able to travel to Elly's warp-time for a little while--here I have John explaining that she's a hygienist filling in for Shania-Ann Achronism.

I actually looked at a bunch of Shania Twain pictures and tried to draw Shania-Ann to look as Twain might if she were a foob character. I'm not sure how succesful I was, but I had fun drawing her hair. At first, I was looking for reference pics that weren't overly posey, but for the final frame, I decided to go for a shot that was as posey as it gets... :)

Joyless

It's always all about the shopping with Elly

And they're dealing with grade one as well!

One of my favorite moments in Peggy Sue Got Married happened soon after Peggy Sue found herself a teenager in the 1950s once again. Her mother asked her about what she'd argued with Charlie about. The mom thought she was referring to her teenage daughter's teenage boyfriend, but in Peggy Sue's mind, he was her ex-husband decades later. So she responded with something like "Mortgage payments." :)

Spot the "Back to the Future" Reference

Ellies and Emmies need not apply....

Speaking and thinking

SPP of Doom

Okay, this is totally wish fulfillment. :)

Note: I was working ahead and posted this Wednesday, before we saw the return of Deanna. Rest assured, I'll address that tidbit next week....

We'll see if my gamble pays off...

I may be jumping the gun. I probably am. However, if my gamble pays off, the strip I used as a reference for this Foobar will be reprinted today. If it doesn't pay off, LJ won't get to it until next week. Or worse yet, skip it (but I doubt that--she seems to be leading up to it).