Springtime for Foobville IX-beta

These have been little glimpses into spring 2010, but that last one just screams for a followup....This is what I have to work with (reboot doesn't count, nor do online bios, introductions to collections, etc):

• Connie told Elly that Pete (her "inferiority complex") left her with the house, cats, etc .... and a five-year-old kid, as if Pete were Lawrence's dad.
• Connie said Pete was her only 'real relationship' (which was why, a year after the divorce, she was having a hard time letting go, was still dyeing her hair red, etc)
• Liz was told Lawrence's daddy went back to Brazil after the divorce
• Much later, Lawrence meets Dr Pablo daSilva, who
• looks very much like him
• claims he never knew he had a son with Connie
• Connie backs this up with a story of going home with her secret love-child after a charity trip

This, uh, strings it together plausibly, keeping in mind that people don't always tell the truth (but Lawrence relating the story of meeting his dad is most likely to be telling the full truth about that incident; he has no reason to make it up.)

This still leaves open why Pablo would deny having known about Lawrence (least complicated explanation: Connie and he both don't want to deal with this past complication - Pablo's new family may not take it well and I doubt he's proud of ignoring his first child)

I leave that letter to Dr. Walby to your imagination ... so that's how it happened! Really, I mean it this time, and yes, I finally explained it all to my son - sort of - I agreed with Pablo that it was better if - well, anyhow I'm not looking for a referral, I've already dealt with this... :-)

v. late Dec 2009: Greg and Connie

very late Dec 2009: Connie Returns Home

Now that I think about it, Panel 3's pose may be an unconscious homage to the "love 'em and leave 'em" rerun strip

very late Dec 2009

I'm back to vignettes instead of a more continuous story... so the Liz/Paul situation will have to wait on a Hawk Creek vignette as followup.

And seeing Connie in the reruns has apparently made me draw her hair more like her old style.