Family Tree by Signe Wilkinson for September 14, 2011

Yes, welcome back. You were missed in the Lott household. Good re-entrance, too.

YAY! I can’t believe it’s back! YAY!!!!!!!

Nice way to come back!

Welcome baaack, Your dreams were your ticket out.

Welcome baaack, To that same old place that you laughed about.

Well the names have all changed since you hung around, But those dreams have remained and they’re turned around.

Who’d have thought they’d lead ya (Who’d have thought they’d lead ya) Back here where we need ya (Back here where we need ya)

Yeah we tease him a lot cause we’ve got him on the spot, welcome back, Welcome back, welcome back, welcome back.Welcome back, welcome back, welcome baaaaack.

Yeah, but it’s in reruns.

Hooray! We don’t have to go cold turkey anymore!! ;)

Thanks, Signe!

Good show!

yay

ZIPPITY DO DAH, ZIPPITY YEAH! Re-runs are better than nuthin!

Funny how she lists a bunch of values that she herself refuses to pay more than lip service to.

“She missed “patriotism,” “faith,” “self-reliance,” “responsibility,” “virtue,” and a whole bunch others.”__She didn’t… YOU did. Those are built from those other words and concepts.

Seriously? that’s like asking me to elaborate on why I think Garfield is a fat cat that eats lasagna. Every strip I’ve read with her in it has been pretty much themed around her being a self-righteous, full of herself, downright rude jerk.I mean, the first strips I ever saw of this comic were the ones where the entire family was trying to find out what to get her for her birthday, and her responses ranged from unhelpful to downright mean. To her family.Then there was the whole cat thing earlier, “The sane ones say ‘thank you’ for making me think my cat was dead.”the symbol for this comic on this site, last I checked, was her eyes in an “I’m so much more clever than everyone else” look, and you really don’t at least see how she fails to represent humility as anything more than an abstract concept that she is vaguely in favor of, as long as she doesn’t have to, y’know, do it?

I think the values are great, too, but I don’t for a second believe that the grandma actually strives to live up to those ideals. She’s just far too happy with herself every time she’s immodest, unkind, unforgiving, self-aggrandizing, etc.I don’t find the strip irritating, just the grandma character. To be honest, as I said above, I always assumed that the point of the grandma WAS that she was a horrible human being high on her own sense of superiority, just like the point of Garfield is that he’s a fat, lasagna eating cat (who’s highly merchandisable)