Looks like Gunther was dreaming of happily returning with Bets, when really, it looks like things have gone very wrong between them. Now it’s getting interesting!
No. I’m a woman & I’m a writer. I depict people’s behaviors from real life (people I know.) Sometimes teen girls are moody & dramatic, sometimes teen boys are, too. One of my favorite books is called She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb. He writes the story, from age 3 to 40, of a girl/teen/woman named Dolores Price as she goes through her life with both normal trials & tribulations & also some really tough situations, & he does it to perfection. In other words, I don’t have a problem with male writers writing for women or female writers writing for men.
Yeah, 2 teens living together was never going to fly (and Gun’s mom is okay with marriage, but not right now – when they’re older.) But I bet they wouldn’t mind Bets staying with them in the house during the holidays. Of course, Gunther & Bets could always get a place of their own . . .
That’s what I was thinking, too. All of her ex-boyfriends cheated on her (she’s only supposed to be like 19 & it sounds like she’s had dozens of exes) & now we learn she doesn’t want to be around her family. Has everyone failed Bets or is she the common denominator here? We’ll see.
Hmmm. If I remember the movie Meatballs correctly (and I do), camp Northstar had kids ranging from ages 6 to 14 (this is actually mentioned by way of assigning the CITs to various cabins.) And that’s all I know of summer camps, so if I was writing a daily comic strip with a reference to summer camp, I’d used that limited knowledge via the movies & take creative liberties with the subject. Cuz it’s a fictional comic strip.
I called it.