The Wrong End

Cidu Bill on Jul 2nd 2009

wrongend.gifOkay, I understand that the FBoFW characters aren’t the sharpest knives in the drawer, but shouldn’t Lawrence realize that that part of most animals — himself included — will likely smell bad?

Filed in Bill Bickel, For Better or For Worse, Lynn Johnston, comic strips, comics, humor | 21 responses so far

21 Responses to “The Wrong End”

  1. WordSprite Jul 2nd 2009 at 10:34 pm 1

    Isn’t this the Lawrence that in the future FBOFW universe comes out as gay?

  2. S.P. Charles Jul 2nd 2009 at 10:43 pm 2

    My first thought when Bill put this online was: I give it on hour before somebody connects this with Lawrence being gay.

  3. Kate C Jul 2nd 2009 at 11:08 pm 3

    You know, the butt end of my dog doesn’t really have much of a smell (unless you get right up against it, I suppose, and I have no interest in doing that). It’s his mouth that reeks.

    God, I don’t want to know where Lynn Johnston is going with this storyline. We just had one last month that revolved around pooping.

  4. MoWatt Jul 2nd 2009 at 11:26 pm 4

    In this new format, how you can tell when any given FBoFW strip is a repeat one or a new one that looks like a repeat? And do these story lines take place in 2009 - as if they are about a new Patterson family - or are they looking back at events of 20 years ago?

  5. Nicole Jul 2nd 2009 at 11:30 pm 5

    This is the “LOST” version of FBOFW

  6. Kate C Jul 3rd 2009 at 12:20 am 6

    MoWatt–the drawing styles are different enough that it’s usually easy for me to tell. The new strips have cluttered background, and the characters have long heads/faces.

    It’s the same Patterson family. I’m not sure if it’s supposed to be taking place in modern day or in the early 80s. The website is unclear, and the technologies and such referred in the strip go back and forth.

  7. Rainey Jul 3rd 2009 at 12:27 am 7

    @WordSprite: Lawrence appears to be turned OFF by the dog’s butt, so I see no relevance between this and his homosexuality.

  8. Nicole Jul 3rd 2009 at 12:30 am 8

    Because straight men are not interested in anal sex … uh uh — no way

  9. yellojkt Jul 3rd 2009 at 06:34 am 9

    Lawrence goes gay, he doesn’t become a bestialist. Perhaps Lawrence is a little gassy and he’s trying to blame the dog.

  10. Powers Jul 3rd 2009 at 07:18 am 10

    The strip takes place in the early ’80s. I’ve been looking for anachronisms and the closest I’ve found is Mike playing a handheld video game in bed. But it was probably one of those cheap LCD jobbies and thus potentially plausible.

  11. Nicole Jul 3rd 2009 at 08:23 am 11

    Besides … being gay does not mean you are attracted to butts — it means you are attracted to someone of the same sex .. and not all gay men have anal sex.

    hmmmm Bill should this page be Alrlo-ized because of the direction the comments are taking ?

  12. Another BF Jul 3rd 2009 at 08:39 am 12

    The strip before this showed the dog rolling around in “something”. Must have rolled mostly on his back, not his snout. The stink lines are coming off his back, not his butt. Since Lawrence is approaching the dog from behind, the first thing he’s going to smell is what was just rolled in.

  13. Aaron Jul 3rd 2009 at 11:26 am 13

    Powers: I did find one anachronism several months ago, when John made a Shania Twain reference. Even assuming the Canadian Patterson family knew of Twain as a pre-fame tween (which would have made the punchline of that particular strip extremely creepy), she didn’t adopt the “Shania” name until the late ’80s/early ’90s.

    MoWatt: Another way to tell the difference between old and new strips is the lettering (her “A” has a flatter top in the classic strips, as opposed to pointy in the new ones).

  14. MoWatt Jul 3rd 2009 at 11:31 am 14

    Thanks Kate C and Aaron. Aaron - your post makes me feel like I brought a FBoFW strip onto Antiques Roadshow and you are the expert telling me that my strip is worthless junk.

  15. Kate C Jul 3rd 2009 at 12:34 pm 15

    Re: timeline

    http://www.fborfw.com/behind_the_scenes/q_eh/
    Here, Johnston says that the strips is taking place in the modern day
    (third question down)

  16. The Ploughman Jul 3rd 2009 at 01:41 pm 16

    Seems like Lawrence’s assertion that he’s going to hurl would be anachronistic if the strip were supposed to take place in the 80s, but maybe I only became familiar with the term through Wayne’s World.

    I am still fascinated with the FBoFW reboot. Perhaps Lawrence smells Farley’s impending doom?? April is as yet unborn - can she be stopped from playing too near the flooding creek bed and thus change the trajectory of the Pattersons’ lives forever? Only ten more years til we find out!

  17. Chakolate Jul 3rd 2009 at 02:30 pm 17

    Wow, you guys can really overwork a strip.

    When a dog rolls in stuff, he doesn’t generally stick his head into it; it gets all over the rest of him, and if there’s plenty of it, he sits in it. So the back end is going to smell worse than the front.

  18. Nicole Jul 3rd 2009 at 02:57 pm 18

    “Wow, you guys can really overwork a strip.”

    Yes we can dammit and we are proud of it :-P

  19. Brent Jul 3rd 2009 at 07:11 pm 19

    MoWatt: Third way to tell… new runs tend to have more panels. Anything with 5+ panels is definitely new. If it only has one or two panels, it’s almost certainly old.

  20. Powers Jul 4th 2009 at 09:25 am 20

    Aaron - I stand corrected. But in that case, the hideous ’70s suit that John was wearing in one strip is the real anachronism.

  21. Kate C Jul 4th 2009 at 01:31 pm 21

    There was also this recent strip, where you can see that Shaun Cassidy is on the cover of a magazine

    http://www.fborfw.com/strip_fix/archives/003854.php

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