Hmm, my post vanished! I thought i’d double-posted and deleted one… but great cartooning as always, Jen!. My understanding – and I’m British, so help me out here – is that Pierre was an illegal immigrant until the moment he entered a marriage of convenience with Donna. Is there a homage to Gerard Depiardieu going on here – the movie “Green Card”? Which I suppose makes Donna into Andie McDowell – a woman who still looks pretty good at fifty. Which is my second observation: Donna looks a good twenty years older here through sleep deprivation! (Thinks: are Pierre and Donna due an investigation form the Immigration Service?) Second observation: when the Islamic armies first swept out of Arabia into Egypt, they viewed the pyramids as a nice handy source of building material, and promptly stripped the Great Pyramid of its limestone facing so as to build a mosque in Cairo. Roman observers had noticed the outer face of the Great Pyramid was full of ornate carving and heiroglyphs – now most of this has been reshaped into the great mosque of Cairo, we’ll never know what it said. Now this isn’t pointing the finger at Islam – any structure perceived as outlasting its original purpose is inevitably recycled regardless of the religion and ethnicity of the people doing the recycling. Hadrian’s Wall, for instance, was seen as a handy source of pre-quarried stone by the British, the Ango-Saxons, the English and the Scots, and half its length is levelled to the ground…
Sisyphos almost 11 years ago
Yes, it is, Donna!
Pharmakeus Ubik almost 11 years ago
Only slightly better than being hag ridden.
Tantor almost 11 years ago
yes. a cat is much more demanding than a baby, for instance…
rmacprivate almost 11 years ago
Just a random question, what jobs do the characters in the strip have?
The missing M. Smokey almost 11 years ago
1 a.m. Not creepy.2 a.m. Not creepy. Not really.3 a.m. Not creepy yet….
AgProv almost 11 years ago
Hmm, my post vanished! I thought i’d double-posted and deleted one… but great cartooning as always, Jen!. My understanding – and I’m British, so help me out here – is that Pierre was an illegal immigrant until the moment he entered a marriage of convenience with Donna. Is there a homage to Gerard Depiardieu going on here – the movie “Green Card”? Which I suppose makes Donna into Andie McDowell – a woman who still looks pretty good at fifty. Which is my second observation: Donna looks a good twenty years older here through sleep deprivation! (Thinks: are Pierre and Donna due an investigation form the Immigration Service?) Second observation: when the Islamic armies first swept out of Arabia into Egypt, they viewed the pyramids as a nice handy source of building material, and promptly stripped the Great Pyramid of its limestone facing so as to build a mosque in Cairo. Roman observers had noticed the outer face of the Great Pyramid was full of ornate carving and heiroglyphs – now most of this has been reshaped into the great mosque of Cairo, we’ll never know what it said. Now this isn’t pointing the finger at Islam – any structure perceived as outlasting its original purpose is inevitably recycled regardless of the religion and ethnicity of the people doing the recycling. Hadrian’s Wall, for instance, was seen as a handy source of pre-quarried stone by the British, the Ango-Saxons, the English and the Scots, and half its length is levelled to the ground…