Island Version Wife Guy Has Arrived

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01-01-2023

Happy New Year! Let's all settle in for a month of writing the wrong year every time we have to write the date.

The Van Hoesen family is celebrating their entrance to 2023 by romping on their own private tropical island. Again.

"How can two professional concert musicians afford family vacations on private tropical islands," you ask? I figure it's one of those fake islands like the one Wilbur Weston discovered when he fall off a cruise ship in a drunken stupor. Those trees are fake, the coconuts in them are fake, and there's a swim-up bar just off panel.

There are people who are reading this strip as a valid joke, that the punchline is Amos screaming about his wife's ass to nobody. And that's, you know. That's a punchline, I guess. Just Amos shouting to nobody and everybody about how sexy his wife is, ultimate Wife Guy move.

But what would be FUNNY would be actual people there with them. What would be FUNNY would be a group of other vacationers all quietly doing their own personal thing and not paying any attention at all to the absolutely normal family doing absolutely normal things and only looking over at them when Amos starts bellowing about his wife's behind, drawing attention to it.

Considering how much they like attention while fucking this would just be foreplay.

I mean, either way Amos is a punchline, but one of those jokes requires McEldowney to put in the work of drawing other people. He really only does that when he needs witnesses to his characters doing something erotic in public.

Their New England beach visits, their tropical island beach visits, their swimming pool visits, they are all completely devoid of others even when Amos or Edda refer to other people (usually in context of Edda being so sexy people are staring at her). Their lake/pond visits sometimes have supporting characters there too but usually they don't.

But whether there are people there or not, White Knight True Paladin Amos is hollering about his wife's sexy ass right there in front of his children, ice cream dripping down his arms. These are the childhood memories his children are forming.