Oh, that Edison. I never realized just how stubborn she could be when she wants to. It does explain a lot, doesn’t it?
Ah, but will Mr. Sampson let Stephanie stay? He does have the final say, after all. You’ll just have to stay tuned to find out!
By the by, thank you for your great comments.
Man, this page just makes me ridiculously happy. Thanks for a great start to the weekend, Charlie. 🙂
Just discovered this strip recently, and am in love with it. A little Menage a Trois, a little Girl Genius, a little Bloom County, if I may analyze it…but I’d rather just enjoy it. Thanks!
Thank you! And welcome to the GK hangout.
Menage a Trois, Girl Genius (Phil was instrumental in getting me published in the first place, lo, many years ago), and Bloom County? Thank you again!
Excellent response, Edison.
I really Like the “life” in your ink. You should do a video of you drawing some of the comic characters (Edison is my favorite.hint-hint) I’d like to see how you do it.
Thank you, my friend.
For those of you who don’t know, JWCraig makes a pretty awesome comic called “Sweet Dreams Are Made Of Worms,” which you should check out when you want to treat yourself.
A video of me inking Groovy, Kinda? Gosh, so much of it is made up on the spot. I just discovered how to make those pine needles on Tuesday (seriously). But it would be fun to do. I’m moving soon, but after that I’ll see what I can put together. Thanks for the suggestion.
And welcome to the GK family!
Man, I really just can’t stand Edison. Every appearance reveals yet another reason that I really wish she’d just jump off a cliff. I’m often curious about author intentions on things like this; is she really supposed to be this dis-likable? I understand that she is supposed to be a flawed character, but still, are you setting her up to act as an antagonist?
Also, why would Stephanie require a bathroom?
Edison has at least two modes, but she’s a very nice drunk.
This sequence is actually complex. Edison is being handed an easy solution to Stephanie and doesn’t just let it roll. She watches a bit and then takes exception to Stephanie being told what to do in a patronizing fashion. Quick conversion from trying to let Stephanie off easy to roomie, with probable downstream consequences. Not sure where this will end up, but I’m betting it’ll be entertaining.
I’m strongly in favor of a short YouTube video on character drawing. “Simon’s Cat” has a how to draw short YouTube for a couple of the characters.
A quick, alcohol-fueled conversion that is not driven by her desire to help Stephanie, but her desire to subvert the intentions of someone else where she clearly has no authority to do so.
She effectively kicked Toivo out of his home because it because doing so was convenient for her, in spite of the fact that Larry was clearly somewhat uncomfortable with the idea and they have been dating for all of a week. Now that she has a desire to increase her perceived importance in the eyes of Stephanie and Mr. Sampson, she denounces what was, evidently, the single most important factor surrounding Toivo’s move as fixable (why was the bathroom issue insurmountable when Toivo didn’t want to move out?) and invites Stephanie to move in. Further, it is hardly her place to propose major renovations to Larry’s house (I have some vague memory that he rents…?) or to accept an additional roommate on his behalf when the capacity for offending Toivo is so blatantly obvious.
Her motives are so overwhelmingly selfish I just can’t help but want to smack her.
You raise some really good points. Even I was uncomfortable with her actions here. Her behavior was more like something Eleanor would do.
She’s definitely crossing boundary lines here. It is Larry’s house (he owns it), and Mr. Sampson reacted appropriately. People can’t know that there’s a humanoid robot running around.
If they could trust someone with Stephanie, the best person would probably be Anya. But she doesn’t work for Sampson Enterprises. Despite the good things Edison has done with Stephanie, she’s still an outsider in this issue.
By the way, Stephanie eats (Pudding!) so she needs a place to eliminate waste too.
Back to your earlier post-I understand how you can see Edison this way. She’s pushy, she’s often selfish, she doesn’t always respect boundaries, she left her family so she could be a lush, she rarely talks to her son, she did something bad back in her hometown, etc. While I don’t want her to become the antagonist, I recognize that she’s acting just like one here.
I think that I may have gotten too close to her, and I need to take a step back and look at her, and everyone else. Thank you for reminding me of that.
I will say that soon Larry will be raising some of these very same issues with her.
I’m still not sold on Edison’s motives. Things move in such a slow-fast pace with this comic it is challenging to remember it’s only been a matter of strip days since this got underway. I am getting the feeling Edison is generally more sober with Larry than without him. Not sober, per se, just more sober. I was thinking this was where the personality shift was coming from.
While, I have to admit, she was instrumental in evicting Toivo, he did have a perfectly acceptable place to go. A loving home as it were. From a personal development standpoint, this could be a good thing for the two of them. Keeping them active in the strip is probably more difficult, but they can always just drop in.
Edison’s concept is to have Sampson build the bathroom. Although I’m not sure where that came from, it is more economical than having Larry pay for it. I am wondering which bathroom Larry gets to share.
The other point is that getting Stephanie somewhere else to be appears to be what Sampson was about with the phone call in the first place. Which is why he was trying to talk to Larry. Also, look at Stephanie’s face in the first two frames. Poor depressed robot. And Edison is watching them as the harangue goes on.
It also seems to me somebody has previously proposed an activity for the three of them to try. Being in the same house makes that much easier to attempt.
And finally, upon reflection, I have never before bantered regarding a webcomic. They’ve really never felt that important. And while I can’t pin down why this one is, I’d like to thank Charlie for this crazy contribution to my life.
This sequence reminded me of what Larry said at Hindenburger’s: “Eleanor doesn’t get to decide when to tell me this stuff. You do.”
Even though she told Stephanie she couldn’t move in, she changed her mind when someone else said the same thing. She and Anya have a big sister kind of relationship with Stephanie (despite the kissing), and Edison was responding in that way. “I can tell Stephanie that she can’t move in, but you can’t.”
Yes, she was defending Stephanie, but that still doesn’t excuse her actions.
As schpritzers go, Edison has the big gun, but Eleanor has panache.
Sisters?
“Lord help the mister who comes between me and my sister,
but lord help the sister who comes between me and my man!”
Quoted from ‘Sisters, Sisters’ – Lyrics by Irving Berlin