Mamma mia, my little one! The cards, they reveal great danger! I pray a rosary for you tonight!
Apartment 3-G, 9/18/04
For my money, I say we don’t get nearly enough of Margo’s stereotyped, somewhat accented mother in Apartment 3-G. But this week’s sequence, in which she looks into Margo’s future and gives her vaguely ethnic premonitions of danger, makes up for her long absence. It doesn’t take a mystical knowledge of the fortune-telling arts of the old country to guess that Margo is going to get into trouble on any given day, of course, and anyone less self-absorbed than our scheming brunette publicist would have noticed that her new client is more Ernst Bloefeld than George Soros. Still, I appreciate a good card reading — we need more of them in the comics.
(I should say here that I guess I’m only assuming that Gabriella is Margo’s mother. I can’t figure out what else the relationship could be, though Margo, that saucy career girl, always calls her by her first name.)
Bonus observations: Margo may not know of two opposites in one heart, but she certainly seems well aware of two different degrees of collar flip-up in one cartoon. And I don’t want to know what she’s doing with her hands in the first panel.
The Disembodied Voice
January 20th, 2005 at 3:00 pm
Gabriella is Margo’s biological mother, but not the one she was raised with; hence the reason Margo calls her “Gabriella.” The scandal was a big story line several years ago when I was much younger and just beginning to browse this strip.
Sheila
June 3rd, 2005 at 7:42 am
Wow, you’re more up on the finer points than me! I was going to say, Margo’s mom made an appearance in the strip some years ago, and, far from being an accented gypsy or whatever, she was a glamorous-older-woman clone of Margo. In that plot, Mumsie blew into town and vamped Margo’s boyfriend away — but the guy turned out to be a major stinker and savvy ol’ Mum’s motives were purely altruistic.
I’m floored that THAT woman isn’t Margo’s biological mother. I mean, the resemblence in look, word, and deed was overwhelming.
theinsolenttomato
November 9th, 2006 at 11:43 am
You know, I actually remember the “Margo is adopted” storyline from a while (a LONG while) back. Ah, the memories.
Also, children who were adopted as infants (as Margo evidently was) tend to naturally take after their adoptive parents (mannerisms, facial expressions, tastes, etc) the same way biological children do. Most people will even assume they’re biologically related (barring some obvious difference such as race).
Laura Jane
April 10th, 2007 at 6:00 pm
And I don’t want to know what she’s doing with her hands in the first panel.
Clearly she is shaking a phantom martini shaker. Does Margo drink heavily?
doolz
November 5th, 2007 at 3:57 am
Margo’s mom is a sexy vixen! Mamacita Caliente!