Comics I Don’t Understand

Spiral

Cidu Bill on Aug 7th 2009

Filed in Bill Bickel, CIDU, Jan Eliot, Stone Soup, comic strips, comics, humor | 13 responses so far

13 Responses to “Spiral”

Tim Aug 7th 2009 at 12:09 am 1

The little kid is saying (sarcastically, I think) that she might spiral into depression because of the incredible stress of losing a flip-flop. She’s got a better grasp on her real situation than the teenager who is complaining about how much she’s got to worry about.
Marshal Aug 7th 2009 at 12:38 am 2

Could also mean that since she is wearing one flip flop she might not be able to walk straight. 8^)

According to Wikipedia Holly is 13 and Alix is 10. For some reason I have
always thought Alix was a bit younger.
Rebecca Aug 7th 2009 at 12:46 am 3

Dunno how old the kids are supposed to be, but I’ve heard that from kids of all ages. I believe them. Being a kid is hard.
Henry Aug 7th 2009 at 04:01 am 4

I grew up with adults telling me life as a child was so easy and that I ought to just enjoy it. I always made a genuine effort to learn from my elders - because they _did_ have more experience, at least - but this bit always sounded a bit hollow. I assumed I’d understand when I grew up.

I’m grown up now, and I still don’t see what they were on about. Life as a “grown-up” is so much more fun. The company’s better, even the daily grind is at least more interesting than (high) school, and nobody’s telling you to slow down and enjoy the farce that is teenagerhood.

Humbug, I say. These elders wanted me to respect them? Bunch of lying codgers.
Kamino Neko Aug 7th 2009 at 07:01 am 5

The blonde’s got a good grump on, and is looking for support about ‘being a kid’ not being carefree, from the brunette…who really is completely carefree.

But, to support her sister/friend…she comes up with SOME complaint just to have something.
Mitch4 Aug 7th 2009 at 08:01 am 6

I think the Neko has got it.

I’ve always been puzzled by nostalgia for sweet carefree childhood. Not like I was abused or impoverished or -objectively- miserable-circumstanced, but my overall recollection of childhood was as a long stretch of anxiety-ridden insecurity. And I assumed most people shared that and were just making up or buying into the myth of sweet childhood.
Keera Aug 7th 2009 at 10:58 am 7

Man, I can’t relate to any of you, but then I’m one of those rare birds who has enjoyed every age she has been, including the current one. Never bothered me to lose a tooth, enter puberty, turn 30 or whatever. Every age has its charm, they say, and I totally agree.

BTW, my childhood was not good in the sense that it was all sweetness and light. Emotional abuse at home in the early years and 6 years of being bullied at school. But I never found my age to be a problem.

Back to the comic: I can’t relate to depressed kids, but a sarcastic 10-year-old works. My take on the spiraling is the same as Marshal’s.
Rammy M Aug 7th 2009 at 12:30 pm 8

I took it to mean the younger one is saying something like “You are wrong and freefalling. If I follow you, my imbalanced footwear would make me spiral like a whirlybird seed”.
The short form sounds better.
Paperboy Aug 7th 2009 at 01:48 pm 9

Marshall, it just might be possible that Wikipedia is wrong about Alix’ age. Whenever I read the words “Wikipedia says…” I think of it as the modern form of the old “They say…”
Marshal Aug 7th 2009 at 02:52 pm 10

Paperboy:
I agree. That’s why I said “According to Wikipedia”. The Stone Soup
entry does seem to be edited fairly regularly.

Here is the comic strips home page.
http://www.stonesoupcartoons.com/
Marshal Aug 9th 2009 at 08:37 pm 11

Todays Sunday comic of Stone Soup is an interesting counter point to this strip.

BTW, the Sunday strip also has Alix in the 4th grade, so 9~10 years old
would be about right.
Don’t know how long this URL will be good: http://www.uclick.com/client/spi/ss/2009/08/09/index.html
Tim Aug 10th 2009 at 08:54 am 12

Somehow Rammy can take a strip about teenage angst and complaining about nothing, and turn it into a haiku. I think I might save that, or put it on a t-shirt.
Matthew Aug 11th 2009 at 11:42 am 13

but can you turn it into a twitter post message?