9chickweedlane | (no subject) (Reply)

1-21-2023

"Da Capo" means "repeat this bit" or "start again," often "start again from the beginning."

"Porte-jarretelles" is a garter belt.

"Start over, wearing a garter belt.

This, again, isn't surreal.

At all.

Even if these were two average random musicians it wouldn't be surreal.

It's literally an excuse to show a woman in a negligee of a formal gown with a garter belt on her exposed thigh. She might as well be in lingerie. Amos, of course, isn't wearing a garter belt. He's not wearing short-shorts with his sexy gams on display. Both of them with exposed, be-gartered legs would at least be INTERESTING and a break from the norm (of predominantly seeing exposed lady-legs).

And once more this isn't surreal because they do this constantly it's their daily behavior all they do is hump on pianos.

I appreciate that McEldowney has been playing with more expressive poses and body language. That flourish with her arm in the first panel? They both look more animated than they have in a while. That said, both her butt and her chest are not drawn great. Her sit-upon in the first panel looks like someone crafted her bum out of a ball of clay and gave up smoothing it out halfway through. It's just a round lump. And her chest? McEldowney's been drawing her boobs a lot more often lately but he doesn't draw them well. He's got like... one good boob and one boob melting off to the side.

I just... really want a return to non-public-fucking story lines and character inter-actions. He has SO MANY characters who, in theory, are doing interesting things. A ballet dancer! Who has wanted children for decades! His former professional ballet star wife who's been injured badly enough she can no longer dance professionally and now teaches! A famous prodigy pianist who's a huge self-absorbed asshole and is about to be a dad! A famous super-wealthy Chinese cello player from Hong Kong who's about to give birth! A country vet wants to have a child with her massive poet-scholar husband! A former nun and her former priest husband have 10 or so children are about due to have another one! Gosh a lot of this strip centers around women getting pregnant/wanting to get pregnant/having kids they barely interact with (in some cases not even remembering their names)!

I want so much to see Edda and Amos actively parenting in the way that human beings actively parent. I want to see their kids interact with other kids and I want to see them interacting with other parents. There is so much low hanging fruit! It's so low hanging that it's on the ground! You can't walk without tripping over it! And yet! AND YET.

Gosh, this went long.

Anyway, the ultimate punchline to this week was "Edda was wearing a sexy garter belt this entire time, surprise!"