Not only has Lucas moved on, but the strip is funnier when Mona is the butt of the joke.
As for the Hawaii vacation, Mona lost her luggage (including Smokey). She had nothing she could call her own, so she had to make do with the local shops and whatever she could borrow from Donna, slowly losing her identity in the process. If she hadn’t lost her stuff, she wouldn’t have changed her personality in the middle of the vacation, therefore she probably wouldn’t have met and connected with Ryan.
A proposition:’If you DISLIKE Mona the way she is, you will want to see that she must change in order to find happiness; i.e. she must become what she is not, such as Hawaii Mona.Corollary:If she does not change, you do not wish her to find happiness.But:If you LIKE Mona the way she is (i.e. the way she has been portrayed for 9 years, disregarding flashbacks), you will want to see her attain happiness on her own uncompromising terms. Small changes, but not such that she is no longer cynical, existential, chain-smoking, transplanted-Parisienne Mona Montrois,
1) Becoming a better person is not an either/or situation. It’s a gradual process that we’re already seeing. I’m sure we’ll get to the point where you will be complaining about the strip because they changed your beloved Mona so much if Mona x Smokey doesn’t come to fruition.2) Her flashbacks are a part of her. Basically, high school still haunts her and she suffers because of it.3) Lucas only sees Mona as a friend because of Mona. Mona does not believe this and still thinks he holds a torch for her, which means she has learned nothing about her past actions having consequences.4) Donna is the reason you have the fictional character you want to be whipped by on their foot fetish website. If Donna finds out that Mona absolutely hates her, Smokey will be the only one she’s got left. That would be rock bottom, which would make the change you fear necessary to have some semblance of a social life.
Not only has Lucas moved on, but the strip is funnier when Mona is the butt of the joke.
As for the Hawaii vacation, Mona lost her luggage (including Smokey). She had nothing she could call her own, so she had to make do with the local shops and whatever she could borrow from Donna, slowly losing her identity in the process. If she hadn’t lost her stuff, she wouldn’t have changed her personality in the middle of the vacation, therefore she probably wouldn’t have met and connected with Ryan.
A proposition:’If you DISLIKE Mona the way she is, you will want to see that she must change in order to find happiness; i.e. she must become what she is not, such as Hawaii Mona.Corollary:If she does not change, you do not wish her to find happiness.But:If you LIKE Mona the way she is (i.e. the way she has been portrayed for 9 years, disregarding flashbacks), you will want to see her attain happiness on her own uncompromising terms. Small changes, but not such that she is no longer cynical, existential, chain-smoking, transplanted-Parisienne Mona Montrois,
1) Becoming a better person is not an either/or situation. It’s a gradual process that we’re already seeing. I’m sure we’ll get to the point where you will be complaining about the strip because they changed your beloved Mona so much if Mona x Smokey doesn’t come to fruition.2) Her flashbacks are a part of her. Basically, high school still haunts her and she suffers because of it.3) Lucas only sees Mona as a friend because of Mona. Mona does not believe this and still thinks he holds a torch for her, which means she has learned nothing about her past actions having consequences.4) Donna is the reason you have the fictional character you want to be whipped by on their foot fetish website. If Donna finds out that Mona absolutely hates her, Smokey will be the only one she’s got left. That would be rock bottom, which would make the change you fear necessary to have some semblance of a social life.