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Prescription for a midlife crisis

Rex Morgan, M.D., 8/11/04

Sometimes, when people go through a traumatic experience — like being trapped in a cliffside cave by rising floodwaters, say — they reevaluate their priorities and decide to make major changes in their lives. Often they think about going into an entirely different line of work, one that involves helping others.

You know, like medicine. Hey, earth to June: You already run a medical practice. Maybe she’ll insist on treating people for free. That’ll be fun to watch.

I’d like to point out that Mark and June have smudge marks on their faces, which are the universal comics symbol for having gone through some kind of ordeal. Of course, they didn’t have said smudge marks on their face until after they were rescued, which is a bit puzzling. Maybe they got dragged up the side of that cliff face-first.

Finally, take a look at the odd way that June is drawn in first panel, with her turned down mouth and beady eyes. June Morgan and Grace Jones: separated at birth?

2 responses to “Prescription for a midlife crisis”

  1. Matt Estes
    February 8th, 2005 at 2:08 pm [Reply]

    The first panel of this strip is, without any exaggeration, my all time favorite panel of any printed comic strip, ever. I actually cut it out of the paper and taped it to my wall, it amuses me so. Look at what she’s saying, and then look at the face she makes as she’s saying it. That doesn’t LOOK like a women thinking about her family and how much she loves it (which is really weirdly worded to begin with, and why is her family an “it”?). It’s extra fun to read the sentence out loud, using the kind of voice that you would expect a person making that expression to have.

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