I hate it when reality gets in the way. This is before I travel in the TARDIS to meet with the gang from Lower Decks while wearing my Legion flight ring. All funded by Richie Rich.
Pfft! You can live to be 1700 years old for all Andy cares! As long as you live in this universe, there is absolutely NO way she will ever, EVER let you with 200 feet of Grand Theft Auto VI!
Cute! Some comic strip kids never age (Baldo and Gracie, the Family Circus kids, Calvin, Jeremy from Zits). Some age very slowly (Hilary from Sally Forth turning 14 instead of 12, Phoebe from Phoebe and her Unicorn turning 10, the JumpStart kids getting twin siblings and aging very slowly). For Better or For Worse is the only one I know of that aged the kids in real time (If the strip was still running, April would be 33 this year!)
the sliding timescale of long form cartoons, where characters are perpetually young but also make pop-culture commentary. For example, Bart Simpson started out as a young gen-Xer who was into that grunge music and watched Ren and Stimpy, now HOMER has been retconned into being part of that music scene in his 20’s when Marge was going to college, and Bart has barely HEARD of the 90’s and barely remembers early Spongebob.
Not the first time Bill used that joke. Friendly reminder to the new readers, though. Shame, because I still hope for Jason to grow up a LITTLE. At least to Marcus level maturity.
RuinQueenofOblivion 5 months ago
Heh, nice lampshading Comic Strip Time.
I need a burrito 5 months ago
Peter isnt smart enough to become self aware, Jason on the other hand…
mccollunsky 5 months ago
Uh oh Jason knows, run!
thevideostoreguy 5 months ago
Peter, buddy, you’ve been sixteen since the eighties. I still remember your Springsteen fetish.
The Humanist Boss 5 months ago
Come on, Peter stop lying about your age you are 52 years old.
Kroykali 5 months ago
Today’s classic FoxTrot Sunday strip:
https://www.gocomics.Com/foxtrot/2003/02/02
Concretionist 5 months ago
Comic strip time is … weird.
rudypoogamer 5 months ago
See ya, fourth wall!
jonathan.prater 5 months ago
The Fourth Wall does not approve of the hammer you are abou—CRASH-crumble
cdillon85 5 months ago
I hate it when reality gets in the way. This is before I travel in the TARDIS to meet with the gang from Lower Decks while wearing my Legion flight ring. All funded by Richie Rich.
SquidGamerGal 5 months ago
Pfft! You can live to be 1700 years old for all Andy cares! As long as you live in this universe, there is absolutely NO way she will ever, EVER let you with 200 feet of Grand Theft Auto VI!
[Traveler] Premium Member 5 months ago
Vuja de, I ain’t never seen nothing like this
Hamady Sack Premium Member 5 months ago
Groundhog Year.
Opus_the_other_Penguin 5 months ago
Anybody know which comic from ~10 years ago this is referencing?
rich5021 5 months ago
Let’s do the Time Warp again.
ijnfleetadmiral1984 5 months ago
When Amend finally has Peter graduate from high school and go to college, a whole new set of adventures will begin.
scyphi26 5 months ago
Oh no! I’m thinking about it!
787 5 months ago
It’s not physics, but temporal mechanics.
Old Time Tales Premium Member 5 months ago
Maybe Mom would let him play “Grand Borrowing Auto”?
EnlilEnkiEa 5 months ago
Even at 17, he shouldn’t be playing those games.
MichaelD Premium Member 5 months ago
The time paradox of comic strip characters..
txmystic 5 months ago
Very meta…
Otis Rufus Driftwood 5 months ago
Now if this strip was more like ‘For Better or For Worse’ . . .
Larrycleve 5 months ago
Jason said they had that conversation the last time GTA came out 10 years ago. I don’t think Jason would have even been born.
cwg 5 months ago
Not often a comic strip breaks it’s own walls.
Lablubber 5 months ago
A little fourth wall breaking.
delennwen 5 months ago
Cute! Some comic strip kids never age (Baldo and Gracie, the Family Circus kids, Calvin, Jeremy from Zits). Some age very slowly (Hilary from Sally Forth turning 14 instead of 12, Phoebe from Phoebe and her Unicorn turning 10, the JumpStart kids getting twin siblings and aging very slowly). For Better or For Worse is the only one I know of that aged the kids in real time (If the strip was still running, April would be 33 this year!)
yangeldf 5 months ago
the sliding timescale of long form cartoons, where characters are perpetually young but also make pop-culture commentary. For example, Bart Simpson started out as a young gen-Xer who was into that grunge music and watched Ren and Stimpy, now HOMER has been retconned into being part of that music scene in his 20’s when Marge was going to college, and Bart has barely HEARD of the 90’s and barely remembers early Spongebob.
FeighFeigh 5 months ago
Love a good meta comic. Also “happy squealing” lol
RatMan43 5 months ago
Well shoot, he’s breaking the 4th wall again.
[Unnamed Reader - 83d506] 5 months ago
Love a good “4th Wall” comic!
mindjob 5 months ago
Peter has found the secret to eternal youth. Must be all that pizza
Drgnslr Premium Member 5 months ago
I think there is a Twilight Zone episode about this.
6turtle9 5 months ago
Most people would kill for the fountain of youth. Peter just wants to commit Grand Theft.
kraftjeff 5 months ago
Welcome to Comic strip ageing.
jvscanlan Premium Member 5 months ago
It’s just a little problem with time and space
Gary Elmore 5 months ago
Sorry. I don’t get this one, other than it probably didn’t turn out well for them.
mail2jbl 5 months ago
More like Cartoon Physics in this case, Peter.
Chris Bucksath Premium Member 5 months ago
I remember when “Luann” used to be younger than Peter. Now she’s in College.
TwilightFaze 5 months ago
Not the first time Bill used that joke. Friendly reminder to the new readers, though. Shame, because I still hope for Jason to grow up a LITTLE. At least to Marcus level maturity.
WorkshopGardener Premium Member 5 months ago
And you’ll be 16 again next year.
Brilliant_Birdie 5 months ago
The power of comic strips continuity is strong
liberalnlovinit 5 months ago
Not to mention metaphysics…
einarbt 5 months ago
Hum, self aware characters, this might end badly.
twick1 5 months ago
Why hasn’t this been updated since the 4th????
twick1 5 months ago
why isn’t a daily one anymore?
StoicLion1973 5 months ago
Bill is either leaning on the 4th wall or hanging a lampshade…
Samwise 5 months ago
No one is going to see this but, Bill Amend or Lincoln Pierce?