I agree! Before I left reddit, there was this comic that basically spammed the sad comics subreddit before being exiled to its own. It was called "Marriage is Bliss" and I absolutely hate it. It's all about how horrible the wife is and how pathetic the husband is, and how much his life sucks. This strip is sweet, I like it. I can relate to it.
I'm a wife whose husband feels this way and let me just say, for a lot of heterosexual women (especially millennials; the 90's were rough for girls) it is very VERY hard to internalize this message, no matter how often we hear it.
But I'm trying! And it makes me so happy that he loves my body, so I don't get tired of hearing it, even if it's a little uncomfortable having to confront my low self esteem.
It is harder and harder to feel good about our appearance as we age. Which makes getting lots of attention harder and harder to handle. I’m sure there are also times when maybe he never gets tired of staring at her boobies but maybe she gets tired of them being stared at. I try to be respectful and sensitive with my wife, always, but we have had the talk about how “we are married and I’m allowed to just look at you for no reason.”
The author of this comic strip came to our house one time when I was little. He was visiting some family at Pickwick Lake (I think) and somehow came over to our house with some of my stepmom's friends. I absolutely couldn't believe it that somebody famous was there with us at our house. He seemed like a really nice person and he left a couple of doodles of our dogs and an autograph for me and my brother.
I just sent this to my wife and asked her what she thought it meant. She said "that you don't get bored seeing them every day". I corrected her and said "more to the point that even after seeing many sunsets, they are still beautiful and amazing".
There's an episode of 'Malcolm In The Middle' where the job forces Lois to wear make-up. Hal sees her and and becomes feverish. Later on, she refuses to wear the make-up, comes home, and Hal sees her and becomes feverish.
Isn't that the same episode that Hal and Lois realized they never went more than a day without sex since they met, and spent the entire time avoiding each other?
Different one. In the one I'm talking about a customer solicits Lois, she marches him into her manager's office and makes him confess. She isn't not raging mad, to her it's just proof that the make up is demeaning. After she leaves it turns out the customer is the manager's brother in law.
There's also an episode where Hal and Lois can't have sex for a month. He paints the house, replants the yard, and gets a promotion at work...
Slightly off topic but is there a name for this boomer art style? I don’t mean just this artist in particular, but any comic/illustration that is very clearly made by a geriatric.
Slightly off topic, but is there a name for this juvenile word crafting style? I don't mean just your words in particular, but any sentence/paragraph that is very clearly made by some kid.