It’s because her hair is so strange looking, you see
Rex Morgan, M.D., 10/25/04
OK, I can’t hold back any longer. Mrs. Hendershot is the villain in the current Rex Morgan story line, and I just love her hair. Is it really her hair? Is it a wig? Who cares? It’s so … interesting! I like how it seems to be one solid mass at the crown of her head, and then has precisely parallel lines mapped onto the curve of her skull further down, then ends in a perfect line that almost cups in a bit. Rex Morgan’s artists love interestingly stylized hair (just look at Heather’s two little droopy devil horns) but Mrs. H’s freaky ‘do just takes the cake. It makes her head look all the weirder perched at the end of her unnaturally thin neck.
I mean, do you think kids call her “Kremlin Head” behind her back? Because … well, I mean … her hair looks kind of like … those tower things on Russian churches. You know what I’m talking about. Those things.
Heh. “Kremlin Head.” That’s funny.
All right, that’s all I have to say about that.
Some grim fare in the soap opera strips these days. Margo’s tied up in the trunk of a car in Apartment 3-G, some poor college kid’s in the hospital from bad meth in Mary Worth, and now we’ve got a mean old lady whose crusty exterior is just a cover for a hateful, unhinged, child-abusing interior. She may be evil, but seeing this skinny elderly woman hauled off in shackles — as we almost certainly will — is going to be a somewhat unpleasant image for the funny papers.
Anonymous
October 26th, 2004 at 11:32 am
Her hair looks like an incantation of Darth Vadar’s helmet.
Dum dum dum dum de dum
Can she be brought back from the dark side?
Just what did happen at Adams Elementary School?
Sue
October 26th, 2004 at 9:11 pm
A few weeks ago, didn’t you post that someone had found their way to your site by searching on “blondie bumstead nude”? I notice that Sunday’s strip, which actually DID feature a nude Blondie (well, almost…), went unremarked upon by you. So I thought I should say something about it. Because you could definitely see part of her breast. I don’t think I would have noticed that kind of thing in the past, but I think reading people’s comics-related Google queries has sullied me.
matt
November 5th, 2004 at 4:45 pm
white squash. her hair/head is a white squash.
http://arts-unlimited.com/artists/johnson/johnson7.htm
Rick C
November 8th, 2004 at 3:35 pm
Having seen that Blondie picture now, I don’t think it’s part of her breast, unless she’s got rows of them like a cat. I think it’s supposed to be folds in the material covering the bench she’s laying on.
Ted
December 5th, 2004 at 5:54 pm
Those Kremlin things are called onion domes.
Kane
January 25th, 2006 at 5:16 am
It seems as if she hasn’t washed her hairs for ages. Ha-ha!
highway
June 6th, 2008 at 3:37 pm
perhaps it’s to soften the blows to the head in case of space turbulence?
http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=2jflsj&s=3
Hiyame
July 26th, 2009 at 5:12 pm
Her hair looks like Lee’s from Naruto, which disturbs me on a level I didn’t ever imagine… It barely looks acceptable on him, but on an old woman it’s pure torture. Go comic pages… my daily dose o’ masochistic joy!