Jane's World by Paige Braddock for March 21, 2014

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    SusanSunshine Premium Member almost 11 years ago

    Okā€¦. Iā€™ll try again.

    First, I have no special ā€œinā€ā€¦ Iā€™m just a reader like all of you, but I started, I think, in 2006 on Comics.comā€¦and read back in the archives through most of 2005, and also one or two of the booksā€¦.The plot has always been full of flashbacksā€¦. and my memory sometimes full of holesā€¦so this is the best I can doā€¦if anybody has corrections, feel free!

    Soā€¦.in my next comment, the timelineā€¦..

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    SusanSunshine Premium Member almost 11 years ago

    People ask meā€¦ so Iā€™ll tryā€¦Paigeā€¦.. if you can helpā€¦.. Or anybodyā€¦.

    Firstā€¦. The 2012 strip was set in 2012

    Near the end of that year, Jane and Dorothy found Janeā€™s lost Uncle Otis, or perhaps his spirit, and drove him through a time portal (which looked just like the Marin County tunnelā€¦) back to 1967 San Francisco, where they left himā€¦and also found the ā€œhippie chickā€, Starr.

    On the way home, they accidentally drove HER back to 2012.Soā€¦ Starr has never existed in any years between 1967 and 2012.

    Then sometime in April, 2013, Jane and Ethan started talking about Dixieā€¦.and remembering the floral couch, and Ethan and Dixieā€™s break-upā€¦and we saw those strips again in flashback.

    I think it had actually happened in 2006 around the time I started reading ā€¦(and THAT flashback included a brief, farther flashback to Jill and Chelle in Nevada (?) even before that.)

    Thatā€™s also when we saw Dixie get abducted, and say ā€œnot again.ā€ā€¦ but it happened in 2006, not 2013.

    Then, Iā€™m not exactly sure when, but a month or two later maybe, we flashed back to BEFORE Dixie, to 2005ā€¦ we saw Jane and Talia go to a furries convention with 2005 banners hangingā€¦

    Ever since then, AFAIK, weā€™ve been in 2005.

    If weā€™ve read the strip through the years, we know that Jane and Dorothy will get together and break up several times, and Jane and Skye, as wellā€¦.There will be all sorts of plot twists, including the months-long Last Starfighter parodyā€¦and BTW parody is NOT ā€œrip-off!ā€

    But right now, in 2005, NONE of that has happened yet!

    Iā€™m not exactly sure ā€¦. anybody?ā€¦. but I think right now weā€™re seeing Dixie during her first abductionā€¦the one she refers to when sheā€™s beamed up AGAIN after walking out on Ethan. I donā€™t think I ever saw the beginning of that arcā€¦ or itā€™s a memory lapse.

    Andā€¦ againā€¦. the hippie chick wonā€™t exist until or unless we get back to 2013 in Janeā€™s life.

    She completely skipped 2005 and 2006 in her own life.

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    david black Premium Member almost 11 years ago

    ok thanks Susan, and when I wrote ā€˜rip-offā€™ the other day, it was cause i could not think of the word "parodyā€™ -so -sorry about that ā€“ while some of this is fun, would really like to have some of these storys tied up ā€“ am sure that a few are interrealated ā€“ like is Ted, the hubby to the Truck driver woman, and could he be Chelleā€™s ā€“ adoptive parrent ?

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    SusanSunshine Premium Member almost 11 years ago

    Davidā€¦. LOLā€¦ I couldnā€™t remember who said it ā€¦ but others have tooā€¦or mentioned lawsuitsā€¦ when parody is perfectly fair use under the law, and bread and butter for such as Mad Magazine and SNL.

    As for tying up storylinesā€¦youā€™re talking about NINE YEARS of stripsā€¦ 2005 to 2014ā€¦ a zillion convoluted plotsā€¦which you can read in the booksā€¦and some are in the archivesā€¦.Theyā€™re not all going to be wrapped up in a few months of flashbacksā€¦. especially if Paige finally gets time to do new work set in the present day, and stops the re-runs.

    If that happens, thoughā€¦. maybe Starr will come backā€¦and people can stop asking about a brief, minor character.

    And if it doesnā€™t happenā€¦all the questions will eventually be answered in the next nine years of ā€œClassic Jane,ā€ a great read or re-read.

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    jeanandrick  almost 11 years ago

    nice helmet

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    david black Premium Member almost 11 years ago

    want to buy those, but want to put on my nook instead of having oversized collections again, had a lot of doonsbury and others over the years and they all seem to take up a lot of space in book shelf ā€“ any word of these being in an electronic format?

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    Malcolm Hall  almost 11 years ago

    I love the juxtaposition of the two ā€œhottieā€ statements.

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    karanne  almost 11 years ago

    Oh, yeah, a motorcycle mama that doesnā€™t weigh 300#!!

    Gawd, I miss my Harley Sportster!

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    SusanSunshine Premium Member almost 11 years ago

    Night ā€” that wonā€™t helpā€¦. unless new strips start up, or you want to keep those notes for years.Just read my post!

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    klunker rider  almost 11 years ago

    Tony Stewarts a hottie? errrrr not so much LOL

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