Comments on: Monday PSA: Safety First — All Year!

By: EL

EL — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 02:48:44 +0000

@ Aaron: I was wondering the same thing about the rake.

After living in MS for several years, I would suspect that he could be living there. We quite often did not rake until late November or December. January was a bit late, but as long as the leaves didn’t get wet, we could have raked then.

As an old fogey, when I was younger, you were supposed to write your resolutions down. This was so that you couldn’t weasel out of them.

I hate CSI Miami (mostly because of Caruso), but would watch if this came up — post a comment and let me know. . .

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 18:16:53 +0000

No doubt Johnny has been putting off making his New Years Resolutions for 10 months. So it’s really October in this comic.

By: Jesse

Jesse — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 08:32:19 +0000

CSI would also mean more one-liners from David Caruso.

“Looks like somebody…
*removes or puts on sunglasses*
….dropped the soap.”

By: Jeff R.

Jeff R. — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 00:40:13 +0000

Florida means it has to be a CSI, not a Law and Order. Which is all to the good, since you get more TMI-cam reconstructions of possible scenarious of how Johnny’s head got caved in…

By: Allen Varney

Allen Varney — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 05:48:56 +0000

The live oak trees here in Austin, Texas just started dropping their leaves in mid-December, a few weeks ago, and there are still plenty of trees in this neighborhood in full leaf. That’s as I write; a cold front is due in about ten hours!

By: Harvey

Harvey — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 20:19:54 +0000

1.) Johnny and his family are Orthodox, and recognize the Gregorian Calendar. That would put their New Year in September.

2.) As shown in panel 2, Johnny is a klutz. At some point in his past he injured his brain and lost the ability to form memories. He needs to write down his resolutions or else he will forget them.

3.) Off-panel. It wasn’t necessary for the plot or pacing of the comic, so an editorial decision was made to cut it out of the scene. It is left to the audience to assume its existence.

4.) The soap was a desperate attempt by the sister to restore Johnny’s memories. As a fan of television sitcoms, she knows that the way to cure amnesia is an even number of severe brain traumas.

By: Bryan L

Bryan L — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 18:52:03 +0000

@ Will: Good point. They did try a 12-year-old as an adult a few years ago for killing another child (might have been a sibling — memory fails). But Sis looks so young, I doubt they’d try that with her, though you never know when you’ll get a headline-hunting DA. Yes, a Law & Order pitch script is definitely in order …

By: Casanova Frankenstein

Casanova Frankenstein — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:59:43 +0000

Oak leaves! Although if he had any sense he’d have done it when they fell three months ago.

There still being leaves on one of the trees, I expect that’s a beech of some kind, but I’m still at a loss to explain why he’s wearing so little. And of course, why he’s such a strangely muscular child.

By: Will

Will — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:57:41 +0000

@Bryan If your Florida assumption is correct (which makes a lot of sense), Sis should be careful because they try minors as adults all the time for first degree murder. Also, if mom is in on it, we got ourselves a nice conspiracy. I can’t wait for this Law & Order episode ripped from the headlines (or a 1960s comic PSA).

By: Bryan L

Bryan L — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 14:55:49 +0000

Judging by the fact that Johnny’s in a t-shirt, his house has sliding glass doors, and the foliage is largely green, I would place him here in Florida. We can pretty much rake leaves all year round, depending on the trees in your yard. Mostly I just keep the grass-catcher on the lawnmower and “vacuum” them up. It’s easier and faster.

And yes, Mom’s got a substantial life insurance policy on Johnny, and Sis is planning the hit. Even if she’s caught, she can’t be prosecuted as a adult.