Fall 2010

Therapy continues...

Scenes From A Therapy Session

Sorry, I don't have an intricate story like "Christmas from Heck" about the family therapy. These are just glimpses into it. And yes, Dr. Walby got a haircut.

Back to the Foobery

Well, I've now had my chance to confirm once again that newborns are cute - and cuter in person than their photos. Also continued to cement my "weird aunt" rep by explaining to the toddler that a cartoon's floataway picnic basket was an exaggeration of Archimedes' principle to the point of misrepresentation.

And I finished up this sequence:

23 Dec 2009: Doctor's orders

Originally, I thought I'd have Dr. Walby say something like "Now, Merry Christmas" at the end. But I don't think she'd be that snippy.

We still have Patterson The Younger's household to return to before shifting to, uh, more on the 24th.

Ways to tell Emily Walby apart from April Patterson:


• Her bangs are longer


• Her hair is noticeably longer than chin-length, unlike April's


• She wears more "grown-up" clothes - the sweater on Dec 23 is pretty casual for her.


• Her face has prominent cheekbones and a blunt chin, unlike the oval "young Patterson" face

23 Dec 2009: A Law of Conservation of Foobery?

It's becoming interesting how the alterna-FOOB stories out there mainly differ by who is acting decently, and who, well, is being self-involved or a jerk.

I have Elly off the deep end, but getting help and Liz with a level head - but Mike is very self-involved. John is acting mostly reasonable; he at least won't ignore a major problem.

Other stories also have Elly (even more completely) living in a misremembered past, with John doing nothing and Mike being the decent one by taking in April, or John running off on April & Elly with Liz being completely self-involved. (Check out Foob of Destiny.)

I think there's a Law of Conservation of Foobishness. There was simply too much wrong with the final years of FOOB for all the characters to suddenly act like decent people. Somebody must act like a Foob.

Foob's Paradise may the only one with Liz acting reasonable, but keep in mind that it took me about 30 strips, two friends calling her out on her choices, a runaway sister and a ruined heirloom dress to achieve that.

This may not bode well for how much any other characters can change - I'm just saying :-)

23 Dec 2009: Meanwhile...

Any further foobery at Patterson the Younger's house will have to wait. We need to check what's going on at the therapist's.

And yes, Elly's delusions were inspired by the retcons shown in reFOOB. Just as the start could be taken as an explanation for the July/ August insanity, this could explain why a re-presentation of the past has changes which contradict what we know.

Oct 27: Continuing right along...

Yes, it's Dec 23 when it all goes to heck in Milborough.

Not much to say. I added a line by the "comments" box sort of explaining OpenID to people I know (Hi, Mom! :-) who aren't used to it.