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9 Chickweed Lane for 11-22-2022

There's a few artistic things going on here like the positions of their bodies, the positions of the swing seats, and the positions of their bodies on the swing seats, as well as whatever's going on with Amos' legs. You could very well argue artistic cartoonish exaggeration to make him seem more awkward but the kid's shins are twice as long as his thighs.

Edda's missing half her shirt collar.

Edda seems to have aged several years since the strip just one day previous, from about age six to age thirteen or so. Amos manages to look like he's in his twenties.

The question is: why are these two suddenly older than they appeared previously?

Has this children-discussing-having-children conversation really been going on for decades?

Did McEldowney flub drawing small-child swingset legs and have to resort to what he's good at (gams)?

Did McEldowney choose to draw teen aged girl legs because he just... likes drawing teen aged girl legs?

Her legs and feet are really the focal point of the first panel, dialog scrunched off to the edge.

Her attitude toward conception is weirdly clinical as well. Practically? Unsentimentally? Is she looking for a sperm donor? This is the sort of conversation that adults looking for a friend to help them conceive take part in. She isn't even looking at Amos as she recites her little speech, it's very impersonal.

And given Edda's reaction to proto-incel Amos here, a reaction she frequently had toward him, I could understand that being the case:


His "woe is me" laments were inextricably tied to his stalking of Edda's friend Mary. Amos and Edda may have been friends their entire lives; they may even have been best friends their entire lives. But they really didn't see each other as soul mates for quite some time, and even then they broke up and stayed apart for quite a while.

That swingset gag in the last panel is pretty good, though.