Comments on: The Wrong End

By: Kate C

Kate C — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 17:31:57 +0000

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

By: Powers

Powers — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 13:25:48 +0000

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

By: Brent

Brent — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:11:43 +0000

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.

By: Nicole

Nicole — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:57:22 +0000

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

Yes we can dammit and we are proud of it

By: Chakolate

Chakolate — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:30:45 +0000

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.

By: The Ploughman

The Ploughman — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:41:42 +0000

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!

By: Kate C

Kate C — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:34:11 +0000

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)

By: MoWatt

MoWatt — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:31:10 +0000

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.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:26:48 +0000

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).

By: Another BF

Another BF — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:39:29 +0000

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.