And that’s Eleanor.
Wednesday, a surprise! No, I’m not going to tell you. You’ll just have to wait and see.
In the meantime, thanks for your support, your comments, and thank you for buying the comics. Someday soon I’ll have to get around to making a Groovy, Kinda book, huh.
Wait! Eleanor is behaving like a mom whose son brought his girlfriend home to meet her! Edison is in no condition to be confronted by her family and ‘mom’ just wants Edison to confront Rosemary. Edison needs to take responsibility for the present instead of hiding her past in an alcoholic haze. It isn’t fair to Larry. He deserves to love a whole person, ‘warts and all’. He’s strong enough to pull it off, but only if Edison pulls her own weight.
What troubles me is that I worked with a Schizophrenic who got off of his medications and vanished. About a month later, a sheriff in a neighboring state (Texas) found him in a drunken stupor trying to unlock someone else’s car with his own key. He was taken into custody and institutionalized back home until his brain chemistry stabilized. Another month later he returned to work as though nothing had happened. The previous months were a blank (Electro-Convulsive Therapy can do this).
Larry could end up with a heart full of empty. I hope not.
Eleanor is taking an unstable situation (an alcoholic Edison avoiding her past) and turning it into a explosive situation (a hung over Edison forced to confront her past in front of her new lover). Depending on the backstory of why Edison is hiding from her past, this has “suicide attempt” written all over it.
“What don’t kill cures.” My grandma was scary.
She’s playing with fire, no doubt about that. Don’t know quite how to feel about it.
My biggest concern: Women in general don’t change their names, become chemically dependent, and are willing to abandon their own children unless there’s something ugly bubbling underneath the surface. Yes, there are many exceptions, but I’ve seen too many women in abusive or oppressively neglectful situations that they can’t escape. I really sympathize with Edison, in spite of her dishonesty. I also give Larry kudos for respecting his girlfriend’s identity and privacy. He is definitely a keeper.
Eleanor might mean well, but I just can’t see how this reunion is going to be a positive one in the long term.
“Elenore, gee I think you’re swell, ah-haaaaah ” (Turtles 1968).
I guess the boys spelled her name wrong (snick).
I found Utopia Unlimited online at:
http://zizki.com/comics/Charlie%20Wise
Either way, why does she cover up one eye? There really isn’t any practical reason for that. Vision is … kinda important, especially for someone who revels in sensory experiences.
Eleanor would say: “Darling, I see more with one eye than most people see with two.” Kind of like Butch Cassidy’s: “I got vision and the rest of the world wears bifocals.”
That, and she likes Veronica Lake.