Elly thinks about using her journal to prevent a hair don't, but not a broken leg

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Here we go....

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....Of course, in the original run, Lynn never actually showed the mystery door-answering "girl" in the strips.

Based on the strip I thought would be reprinted today

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So, this is based on the strip that originally ran on 1/30/1981.  Lynn ran a new-run yesterday--I'm not sure if I'll just end up a day out of synch or just generally scrod.  Anyway, if you'd like to find the strip I referenced, search the strip catalog at the foob site using decision-makers of the future in your punchline search.

Probably a guarantee that we have Anne-and-Elly new-runs.

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This strip is meant to follow up on the one that originally ran on January 28, 1981.  Yesterday's reprint originally ran on January 27, 1981.  So I suppose I am virtually guaranteeing that we will actually get new-run filler that continues Elly and Anne's coffee talk.  ::sigh::

In the likely event that this happens, you can find the strip I was referencing by doing a punchline search at the official foob site's search catalog, using the phrase spitballs in the dictionary.

Oh, and I know I'm having Lawrence dwell on the broken-leg thing.  He really doesn't want to break it again.

Hope this works as a lead-in to the new-run we get today....

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She who loves to hate

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Ceci n'est pas une pipe

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Lead-in to Lizzie's bathroom disaster

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Over at Foobiverse, there was some discussion about how Elly managed not to hear Liz wreaking havoc in the bathroom--leading to the scene revealed in today's foob reprint.  This, I figured, is a likely explanation.  I know it's a bit of a retread of the reprint that appeared on April 9, 2009, but Elly is all about repetition and not-learning.

As others plot, Elly churns out another Yammersons comic

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Hope this was worth the wait....

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Here it is!  I hand-lettered to save a step and get this up faster.  Hope it's reasonably readable.  In the last panel, I know I should have done a Lynn-style longshot to get both Lawrence and April all the way into the frame, but for some reason, I was amused by the idea of only being able to see the top of Lawrence's head.

So, yeah--extended-play format with lots of extra exposition.  :)

Delay

Ugh, I have a lousy cold that is slowing me down.  Strip is penciled but still needs to be inked, scanned, and lettered.  I am hoping to get it up sometime this evening.

About that sitter...

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Okay, so I am jumping back a bit in my time sequence for this one.  Chronologically, this comes before the NYE strip I ran on Friday, 1/1/10.

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