Comments on: Spiral

By: Matthew

Matthew — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 15:42:32 +0000

but can you turn it into a twitter post message?

By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 12:54:26 +0000

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.

By: Marshal

Marshal — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 00:37:40 +0000

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

By: Marshal

Marshal — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 18:52:43 +0000

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/

By: Paperboy

Paperboy — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 17:48:31 +0000

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…”

By: Rammy M

Rammy M — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 16:30:48 +0000

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.

By: Keera

Keera — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 14:58:24 +0000

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.

By: Mitch4

Mitch4 — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 12:01:13 +0000

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.

By: Kamino Neko

Kamino Neko — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 11:01:44 +0000

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.

By: Henry

Henry — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 08:01:48 +0000

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.