She was already wearing the color-coordinated tank top and headband, don’t need to get ready if you stay ready
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Family Circus, 4/29/25
Look, we all make fun of the crania of the various Family Circus children. “Melonheads,” we call them, and it’s become enough of a cliche that we don’t really think about it, really. That’s why it’s just a terrible idea for any individual Family Circus panel to invite us to contemplate the children’s heads in particular. Because they look awful. Like really unpleasant. There’s like a … lobe thing happening on the left side (our right) of these two’s heads, I think it’s supposed to be part of their hair but it’s drawn like it’s a curve in their skull? Don’t care for it. Don’t care for it all. The freckles don’t look great either, for what that’s worth.
Rex Morgan, M.D., 4/29/25
Welp, the cops came and arrested the dying stalker murderer guy without incident, so I guess we can take a measured breath and move on to the next plot and … oh, what’s this? Kelly’s rushed breathlessly back from college to learn what’s been going on all this time? Well, sure I supposed I have time to watch Summer recap the not particularly exciting last few weeks. I’m not going anywhere! Let’s roll with it! Probably could kill three or four days with this.
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RMMD:
“Mom! What in the world is going on!?!”
“Well, let’s see. The conclave starts on May 7; there was a massive power outage in Portugal and Spain, but that now appears to be resolved; and there seems to be some rapprochement brewing regarding this whole ‘tariffs’ issue. That’s about it.”
RMMD:
“Oh, Kelly! You drove all the way home from college?”
“No, no. I decided to leave to become the batgirl for the Sacramento-based Athletics. Can’t you tell from this distinctive yellow-and-green trade dress of mine?”
“Look, mom, I found this insufferably smug freckled kid from the 1970s! Can I keep him?”
RMMD: For those just starting to read this strip, it sounds like the murder was across the street from Kelly’s place and she drove home to get away from it.
FC: I have never seen a child who looks so much like Jay Leno.
RMMD:
“Kelly, you skipped a class just to jump in a car and come here?”
“Oh, Mom, the only one I ended up skipping was my ‘Introduction to Calligraphy’ seminar. But I’ve been practicing, anyway, by writing an excrementitious French word and the eighteenth letter of the alphabet!”
“No. Don’t say it, Kelly.”
“Yep. ‘ “Merde” “r,” she wrote’ !”
Family Circus:
This “Mike” chap looks as if he might have an extra chromosome or two.
Family Circus: Now I’ve got the cover for my independently researched book on the correlation between THC and freckles!
RMMD: “Kelly, this is finals week. If you flunk out now, you’ll have to repeat a whole semester of school at a great expense!”
“Well, when you put it that that way, hmph”
MW: If you had told me a year ago that Mary Worth would do a plot with a crazed maniac whose sexual attraction to Wilbur makes her try to kill Dawn with drain cleaner and kitchen knives, and that this story line would somehow manage to be boring…well, actually I’d have no problem believing that.
Mike’s facial expression and hairdo have me wondering what one calls a child molester who is, himself, a child. If not a small Hutt with a wig.
Between Jeffy’s friend and Belle in P2 of Mary Worth, today is hideously deformed mutants day!
MW: If that knife is so dull, how did Belle manage to cut off her own nose with it?
MW: I don’t know, Belle. It was sharp enough to slice off the bottom of your nose.
FC: “Mike”? I would’ve called him Mason Grease.
@Guts Dozier: Damn, I didn’t see your comment until it was too late.
@nescio:
I was thinking Chubbsy-Ubbsy from Our Gang, but Mason Reese works too!
RMMD: And just like that, helpless, whiny Summer is all blasé and cool. “Just my stalker, who got murdered by some dying guy, who then gave my new boyfriend his truck. No biggie.”
H&L: The service people in this strip really need an upgrade. It wouldn’t surprise me to see Ralph Kramden and Ed Norton, plying their trades.
MW: Dawn refuses to take another shower. The resulting funk drives Belle from the apartment. A besotted Wilbur follows her to parts unknown. Happy ending, you’re welcome.
FC – Beat me with the ugly stick – 12 to the bar….
RMMD – Well, Kelly…you’re just in time for…your NEW DEATH WISH-ILIZER MURDER MOBILE!
Adios Amigos, DJ.
MW: Belle is still wearing the harness from this morning’s big wall climb with Wilbur.
She invites Dawn to come along next time. “Don’t worry about it. I’ll fix your kit;” she says smiling.
FC: These children are awfully smug for ambulatory Cabbage Patch Kids.
FC: The smug is strong with this one…
MW: It seems that Brigman has dropped all pretense and drawn Wilbur as
a simpa chimpa baboonan orangutan since all the energy is focused on Belle.FC: Billy overhears the conversation and grabs a can of spray paint and his mom’s colander. “This is gonna be so much fun.”
Mike has measles.
@Needless Exposition:
Always go with your first instinct. “Simpa Chimp” is brilliant.
FC: And all the kids like Mike so much they hand him their lunch money, no questions asked!
FC: Hey, it’s Nathan from South Park!!! Finally, the 50s/aughts mashup that…well, nobody has asked for, exactly.
FC: Very cute. Jeffy has his first crush.
Why & how does Kelly have a car at college? Has Summer been embezzling from Rex Morgan for the last 20 years? Most likely, yes. It’s much safer than what Kelly was up to during all her “babysitting.”
Don’t let Mike’s pockmarked snouty melonhead distract you from his deformed flipper of a left hand!
FC:
” ‘Mike’ here has the Andromeda Strain!”
FC: It’s funny because those ‘freckles’ were almost certainly applied with a ballpoint pen. And just look at how smug Mike looks. “Heh heh, freckles. This is gonna kill on the playground tomorrow…”
RMMD: Good question Kelly: what is going on? Judging from her expression and eye-line, I’m guessing that Augie is on all fours on the floor in a black leather gimp suit and ball-gag. Everyone decompresses in their own way!
FC — Those are measles–and yes, Jeffy, you can have them. . .
RMMD — If only there were some way of communicating at long distances! Then I wouldn’t have needed to drive all this way just to get caught up.
Yeah, too bad. Hey, do want a truck to drive back in?
Papa Keane is going to take out the belt! None of his sons will express admiration for the facial features of another boy! Sure, if Jeffy admired another boy’s muscles it would okay, because somehow this is less gay instead of more!
The Family Circus: When we said Jeffy had a little toady for a friend, this is not what we meant at all.
FC: Never mind the freckles, Jeffy—we want to know where Mike scored that bitchin’ leisure suit.
FC: I’ve warned you kids, stay out of my gummy stash!
Also The Family Circus:
“This is my friend Mike. He’s a six-year-old middle-aged trucker from 1975.”
Rex Morgan, M.D.: “What in the world is going on? You know already: there was a murder across the street from our house. Christ, why I am still paying your tuition? You’re clearly not getting anything from that community college.”
@I’m Not Cthulhu, But I Play Him On TV:
I doff my hat, sir.
DT: The P2 display tag is just to give the store we’re-so-fancy calligraphy vibes, and not the artist’s passive-aggressive commentary on the plot. Suuuuure.
H&L: What’s with the expressions? Dude, you should get paid your significant labour rate without any heavy exertion taking the engine apart – and heck, probably some minimum half-hour that you made in five minutes. Lady, I get feeling down that you are going to pay for a mechanic to find a literal rattle that you could have figured out before bringing the car in, but given how unobservant you are, you should be overjoyed to have an honest mechanic who isn’t going to show you some random bit of junk and charge you 500$ for pretending to replace a hose that doesn’t even exist.
Phantom: Once again, Savarna, so why didn’t you slip out of town the moment you executed Jampa, before anyone was reacting or looking for you??
Six Chix – Left Cat is plotting revenge for all the times they were asked to write Xunise’s strip for her. Right Cat is justifiably nervous.
Don Abundio, translated:
“Who is that, Don Abundio?”
“Roger Heineman, the efficiency expert”
“He says it’s wasteful for the lift chairs to be empty going down”
Six Chix-Too bad this is an unfunny comic.
RMMD-“Of course I came home. We live in the sort of neighborhood where murders don’t normally happen.”
FC-Thel, a word of warning. If you are going to take a shower later on lock the door.
Blondie-“Joke’s on my dentist. I work for J.C. Dithers. I can take a punch.”
FC: Mike looks like he’s going to catch the next fly that appears.
RMMD: Does Kelly go to college like Luann goes to college? It would explain how Kelly could get there so quickly.
Family Circus – I am glad to see Philip Seymour Hoffman has reincarnated and is already back in the entertainment industry. Ironically, he could now play the son of his son Cooper Hoffman, whose acting debut in the film Licorice Pizza I recommend seeing.
Rex Morgan, MD – It says something about Summer that Kelly assumed that if a murder happened, her Mom was the one killed, hence no need to call or text ahead of time to see if everything is okay.
Luann-You do know that there are ready made lasagnas out there and recipes for less than twelve?
Luann-“If only we knew basic math then we could have modified the recipe for two people instead of twelve.”
CS: Considering what passes for good writing in this universe, I honestly can’t tell if Lillian is being sarcastic or not.
Dustin: “I love fine print and baffling language.” No, you just like being an asshole.
MW: This is like a bad improv show. Belle wants to play a psycho killer, and Dawn is reluctantly playing along because Lord knows there’s nothing else happening in the scene.
Pluggers: Have you ever met a Texan? They would be mortally offended if you suggested there was anything in Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas, or New Mexico worth looking at. I don’t usually doubt the veracity of the reader suggestions, but come on.
MW: As long as Moy and Brigman are shamelessly ripping off “Psycho”, maybe we can look forward to Wilbur being stuffed. I mean, after he finishes stuffing himself.
FC: Mike reminds me of one of Thomas Nast’s ethnically insulting depictions of an Irishman.
MW: I hope we’re spared the panel where the top part of Belle’s head slides off.
Dustin: “Well, here, you can translate this cuneiform.”
@Banana Jr. 6000: Yes *sigh* and
RMMD-“The college was shut down after Sophie launched a drone strike on it.”
@Tabby Lavalamp: 10-4 good buddy….
Pluggers: Now they’re stealing ideas from Rex Morgan road trips. Will a stop at a diner be next?
How can driving to the next state be thought of as “traveling abroad?” Pluggers have a nonsensical sense of humor.
Luann: I know we like to give Brigman shit for her unappetizing food, but maybe drawing edible food is difficult? Understandably, even though Luann helped with the preparation of the lasagna, Bernice knows she needs to tell Luann there’s a lot of it.
CS: Dammit, Lillian! You interrupted her. Was she going to say, “double feature,” “double trouble,” “double bubble,” what?!?
9CL: I don’t want to know what kind of exam “Granny” is administering.
FC – Hey, Jeffy. Ever heard of the expression “a shit-eating grin”? Well, those aren’t freckles.
RMMD: I may not be up on my neologisms, but I thought “decompress” was something you did after a stressful day at work or a tense conversation with your parents/kids, not how you dealt with the long-lasting trauma of being stalked for weeks, discovering the stalker dead in a car parked across the street from your house, getting accused of murder, and being forced to hear the confession of the guy who actually killed him.
FC: Freckles? I thought Mike’s eyebrows had gone out of control and now he has fine hairs all over the top half of his face.
9CL: “As I taught it in university.” Aohhhh! Aowww! Mater, I’m off for a ride in my aeroplane, and then to play the grawnd piano!
DT: “I see you are another aficionado of huge bow ties that look like they belong on Christmas presents. Want to come back to my place?”
Phantom: “We hate to see you go, Savarna Devi, but we love to watch you walk away.”
Wallace the Brave is always a delight, but I found today’s strip especially funny. Chuckin’ time!
I’m digging Jeffy’s Sandman cosplay.
FC – When you’re going for smug, but you land on troll-like.
Has it become some kind of comics page requirement that female college students must have murder-adjacent families? I’ve never looked forward to developments in Luann with such optimism.
Wary Morth:
I don’t know why, but I’m beginning to get a feeling that it is perhaps faintly possible that Bats In The Bellefry is criminally insane. Pity I’ll have to wait for Mary to point it out before I can confirm it.
@Peanut Gallery:
Entonces, ¿vive el banquero en la montaña o es el banco el que está en la montaña? De cualquier manera, Abundio definitivamente va a asesinar a esta mujer.
GT: They don’t need any ghost make-up. The way that vape smoke is drawn is creepy enough.
MW: Belle is prepping dinner vegetables at 9 a.m.? Man, this story just keeps getting dumb and dumber.
JP: Yeah, because whoever heard of the man being older than the woman?
Luann: I’m still not buying the idea that these two morons actually made something edible, at least not without the camera panning over to a kitchen that is absolutely destroyed. ‘It’s okay, Mommy will clean up when she gets home in a few days!’
Cranks: ‘Mind if I use that? I’ll take all the credit of course, and your contribution won’t be known for decades, if ever! You people are used to that, right?’
@Cleveland Mocks: On MW: Who say’s it’s 9 a.m.? I have no problem believing Dawn is such a Luann-level lazy slug she routinely sleeps until noon or later. What, you thought she had things to do, like college finals or something?
Lockhorns: They’re flying first class? I’ll bet the passengers in coach took up a collection to get them up there.
FC: Mike looks like the classic grade-school bully. And Billy is his new bitch.
C’shaft: “Listen, lady, I’m a Cranakshaft character; I’m well-versed in half-assed wordplay.”
Dustin: Normally I find Dustmom the least objectionable member of her family (which is kind of like being the nicest form of cancer), but her jumping on the “any ingredient with a name I can’t recognize and pronounce is unnatural and therefore evil” bandwagon almost has me siding with her husband. Almost.
GT: Somehow I doubt Brownsville Station would have cracked the Billboard charts if the song had been called “Vaping in the Boys’ Room.”
JP: I admit, inventing your own colloquialisms has its advantages over attempting to capture the esoteric and ever-changing sound of natural slang–it worked for West Side Story and Heathers–but as today’s strip proves, it’s not as easy as it looks.
Luann: “Those folks at Stouffer’s sure know their stuff!”
MW: I mean sure, any decent cook does. I also prefer a knife that doesn’t randomly switch from a chef to a utility blade, and the greater control of holding the handle in a firm grip rather than pinching it against my palm with my fingertips.
Phantom: Look, KD, my man, I get it. You don’t want to collude with an oppressive police state, and I don’t blame you. But Sarvana is refusing to leave despite being told in no uncertain terms that she’s worn out her welcome, willfully endangering you and who knows how many others. At this point, turning her in to the authorities is a win-win.
RMMD: You think this story will wrap up in three or four DAYS? Your naive optimism is adorable.
@taig:
The seagull *talks* ?!
Family Circus: Mike looks like he’s gonna offer to either fix Jeffy’s bike or sell him weed.
@Violet: Yeah, I couldn’t make any sense out of the translation of the original dialog. Maybe the banker tours the village every day because he owns it and wants to keep an eye on it?
I like your idea better: The bank is at the top of the ski slope. It’s for spendthrifts who want to make it more difficult for themselves to withdraw their funds.
@Bob Tice: #6
We are going to lock you up in a cell with Stephan Pastis…the crime? Assault with a deadly pun… :-)
@Peanut Gallery: What’s with the Don Abundio art today? Female companion has the head of one of the strip’s lumpy women, but the chest of one of the hot babes.
MW: Is there a hidden meaning to Wilbur peeling a banana in the background? Asking for a friend.
@TimP: #24
“Mike has measles.”
Quick, Thel – grab the cod liver oil!!!
@Ukulele Ike: The artwork has been all over the place lately. Sometimes we get the standard 1970s look. Sometimes we get the style where Abundio looks like Rich Uncle Pennybags (a.k.a. Mr. Monopoly). And there have been two skiing strips where the art looks like Drabble.
I can only suppose that these all come from different periods of the strip’s history, and whoever arranges them is using “Shuffle Play.”
@Liam, Luann: “But I have Inner Beauty! I don’t need math!”
Luann: On the one hand, twice-baked leftover lasagna is quite awesome.
On the other, five days, and it’s still the Evansiiverse….
Dustin: Helen, just let it go. The sooner Ed dies of a weight-related issue, the sooner you can collect his life insurance.
Luann: I have said this multiple times during this arc, but it bears repeating: These two are supposed to be college students. I refuse to believe that neither of them has never gone grocery shopping or cooked for themselves. Yes, I know Luann is clearly mentally deficient, but what’s Bernice’s excuse?
FC: Mike’s even got a 1970s anchorman toupee.
MW: Belle later becomes even less subtle: “I sure do enjoy cooking over a hot stove, but a hot stove is not as hot as the explosion caused by car bomb wired to two blocks of Semtex-1H plastic explosive!”
@Terence O’Brien: He doesn’t speak much, but he will occasionally to accentuate a bit in the strip.
@Daisy: He’s going ape for Batshit Belle.
FC: No one’s tossed in “Jesse Plemons” yet?
RMMD: Does Summer think that her daughter would hear about the murder and just brush it off? Kelly might be a former rebel turned milquetoast moll but she’s not a soulless Morgan child.
@Dr. Larry Erhardt: I did not make that connection until you mentioned it, but yeah, that works.
RMMD: what with Rene Belluso locked away I was hoping stalker dude would become some kind of regular character as an ongoing antagonist. Speaking of that type of character it’s time for Awful Anne Eiffle to show up in Luann.
@Peanut Gallery:
Thanks for sharing this information, with examples no less! A very interesting comparison.
“What in the world is going on?!” Well, this is “Rex Morgan MD”, so, despite the appearances, not much
@Nekrotzar, yDD: Great. Now I hear his “ba”s as the five notes from “Close Encounters of the Third Kind”.
FC-“Hey, Mrs. K.”
Kelly’s going to be really disappointed to find out that her friends were just talking about an impressively large flock of crows perched on the power lines across the street.
FC:
“Mike” looks the kind of fellow who might push a grapefruit in Jeffy’s face, Cagney-style.
Hey, a guy can hope, can’t he?
DT: Sam doing what would have been done a few strips back. I guess this is official police matter so the Itemizer isn’t involved.
To recap, Dumb and Dumber nephews went to steal a corpse (?) but failed. Later a suitable body is found among the regulars at the church mission. That guy has the appropriate dental work done, but the planted shoes weren’t found. It appears these were supposed to be the key clue to alert the authorities that Piltdown was deceased. Instead a fellow who was also down on his luck took the nice bespoke shoes but later felt bad about it. In the meanwhile Uncle planted the wallet in the church donation box – starting the false ID process – Auntie Angry IDs the corpse and files a claim. We then learn Uncle had embezzled money from K&T and moved it to an off off shore bank in San Theodoros where presumably there is no extradition treaty with the US. Dumb and Dumber go rent a car for their getaway and somehow get a stick shift (How did those two learn to drive a stick? How many clutches did they burn out!)
MW: Bats showing that Energizing bunny energy – probably what makes her so attractive to Wilbur. Nice subtle symbolism with Wilbur focused on when his banana will next be peeled.
Does Dawn not watch any of those angry teen angst dramas and search out stuff on line about her enemy? Still weeks without MW in MW is OK.
GT: Vaping vapors – or are they in some Victorian opium den.
RMMD: More filler, still waiting for the big twist, that not only was McStalker already dead, but that Kelly was the one who poisoned him. That is why she suddenly could appear. She too had grudge against McStalker.
@treetown: It’s surprising enough that Dawn has the drive to bother going to school since we all know that she’s never going to graduate and actually live a life that isn’t unhealthily attached to her dad.
@Daisy:
She don’t lie
She don’t lie
She don’t lie
Plantain
— Eric Clapton
Oh. Wait a minute. It isn’t Sunday yet, so it’s not time for “Quote Box.”
@Chance: “Look, mom, I found this insufferably smug freckled kid from the 1970s! Can I keep him?
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“As long as he grows up to be Ralph Malph, and not Les Moore.”
“Did you know Mike’s freckles map the forbidden stars so well that he’s either the Anti-Christ or the Chosen One, and is being hunted by the Rosicrucians, the Vatican, and the OTO, either to sacrifice or deify him, or both? Why can’t I ever do anything cool?”
Six Chex And A Cat Named Mr Whipple In Search Of A Punchline: Not much chance of getting a deal for imprinting your comic on stationary, ladies, keep after the toilet paper companies, its a better match.
Crank: I used to be on an internet forum that a certain Famous Writer posted in. And one of the rules of said forum was that you never said “You should…” because then he absolutely wouldn’t. Even if he’d already thought of it himself, he’d abandon it because he didn’t like how it would look. Lillian, on the other hand, will steal from her fans without a second thought, because she doesn’t give a crap.
DT: So at this point, they know the body is Sarge, they know the body isn’t Piltdown (they had to confirm both these things seperately, because you can’t be too careful), they therefore know Claire was lying when she identified the body, they know Piltdown’s idiot nephews attempted to steal the body (FOR SOME REASON), they know Sarge had his teeth done in what seems to have been a completely botched attempt to match Piltdown’s dental records, and they know Piltdown is an embezzler. I don’t think you need to check who bought the freaking shoes before deciding it might be a good idea to pop round to Claire’s place to ask a few pointed questions to her, the nephews, and maybe anyone else who happens to be there.
There are so many issues I have with Costello’s storytelling, but his conviction that, no matter how much evidence the police have against someone, they can’t even interview them until it’s completely overwhelming is one of the worst. After all, it’s the one that does the most to delay his stories being frickin’ over.
JP: “Things are tense with Abby and Sam because they’re not happy that Glenn is older than me and I’m moving to Norway. I certainly can’t think of anything else that’s happened lately that might make things tense with Abby and Sam!”
reFoob — Today on reFoob, Mike is a total asswipe, but meets up with his future wife in the process.
@Professor Well Actually: LUANN: Speaking of that type of character it’s time for Awful Anne Eiffle to show up in Luann.
Please no. That character is absolutely terrible and as annoying as the regular cast is, it’s even more annoying watching them all turn into doormats just so Ann’s idiotic schemes have any chance of success. I’d be happy to never see Ann Eiffel again.
RMMD-Kelly rushed home to make sure she wasn’t the murderer or the one that was murdered.
@Horace Broon, DT: Not to mention that “Mutt & Jeff” are two of the most incompetent asswipes this side of the Evansiiverse.
@Professor Well Actually, RxMD: Stalker Dude as a ghost?
FC: Yeah, certainly a melonhead is not improved by a lantern jaw. Mike looks like the kid that child bookies send to collect on bad debts.
MW: The flat of that dull, dull knife has flattened Belle’s nose, which I guess was just putty all along. What a life she must have led up to this point.
Now that Kelly’s there, I hope Augie bangs her. She and her mom can be Eskimos Sisters.
While I’m hoping for things, I hope Lucious Lil the Loathsome Hag dies before Ed.
C-Shaft: I hope this inexplicable fan has a lawyer handy. If she’s going to increase the number of Lillian McKenzie books in the world she may as well get a little scratch out of it.
DT: Crime committer’s tip: If you’re faking your death in some sort of wacky insurance scheme, wait until you’re safely on the other side of it before you have a fancy pair of shoes custom made.
GT: Hey, according to Wikipedia, Brownsville Station are still together, although their last album came out in 2012. Anyway, an of-the-moment song called “Vaping in the Locker Room” might be just the thing to bring them back into the spotlight. Bonus points if it doesn’t contain the word “yeet.”
HtH: What’s this? An ashtray with a burning cigar in it? Why are Hagar and his family living in that little hovel if he’s the Viking who conquered Cuba?
JP: Did Uline sponsor today’s installment? Is that the reason for Sophie’s weird hot glue idiom?
Luann: Either Bernice is an instinctively masterful cook or Luann effectively has no tastebuds. I can tell you which I find easier to believe.
Phantom: “Don’t you have any other records besides these? I think I’m gonna borrow this one.”
@Bob Tice: It’s bound to be the vey next phase….
@Guillermo el chiclero: Just wait until he’s old enough to grow a pornstache.
@Dennis Jimenez:
Quite rightly!
Freckles would make Jeffy a…melaninhead. That’s it, that’s my joke. If I illustrated it then I’d have put in as much work as this comic, so I’m counting it as good enough.
Phantom: “Shit! Is this orange juice? You know I always order V-8, lemon on the side!”
@Violet: The family that slays together pays (tuition) together…
@Old Man Shadow: Brilliant!
FC – You know how people who have high foreheads are mocked and called Fivehead? This is the opposite – under those bangs, Mike is a twohead at best.
Lockhorns – The airline doesn’t put seat belts in premium economy? If they hit turbulence someone will have to scrape Leroy off the ceiling.
Mary Worth – This makes no sense. If the poisoning attempts had worked, all of the evidence would point straight to Belle. Now she’s flashing a knife at Dawn. If Dawn ends up chopped to pieces, does Belle think that the police won’t be able to find evidence that she’s the culprit?
Moy should have read a few mysteries before she wrote this garbage. It would be more effective if Belle played the long game, planned a murder that looked like an accident, and gave herself an airtight alibi. Instead she’s behaving like a cartoon villain.
Crankshaft – Yeah, steal ideas from random strangers, you loathsome hag.
9CL – Find a dweeby, emotionally stunted male that you can turn into your thrall. Once he worships you, do whatever you want.
Pluggers – Good thing they didn’t go to the Corn Palace. Henrietta would still be pecking at all that corn.
@I speak Jive: I think Moy read Loathsome Lil’s mystery novels.
@Old Man Shadow: I always liked those sort of plural terminologies.
“A murder of crows” “A shambling of zombies” “A prey of lawyers”
@Horace Broon: TV shows flat-out say they won’t accept unsolicited submissions, because it’s too easy for randos to sue them if they ever make an episode with a superficially similar plot. The idea that Lillian actively accepts such suggestions reveals her as highly ignorant of entertainment law. And, of course, a total hack.
@I speak Jive: People saying that it’s bad writing because Belle is not thinking intelligently or rationally.
While I don’t deny that it’s bad writing, are you guys forgetting that Belle is completely off the walls insane?
Ugh, I really don’t want Jeffy to make friends with young Donald Trump.