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   eatteaphonenome said, 3 months ago

   Well give Mike a few years, anyway. Lawrence on the other hand still won’t like girls….

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   TheGiantBrain said, 3 months ago

   Not so fast there, Elly!

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   LucianDragos said, 3 months ago

   @eatteaphonenome
   ok so i’m not the only one the got that =P

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   Macushlalondra said, 3 months ago

   So go build your own sandcastle, Lizzie and make it better than theirs.

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   cabrobst said, 3 months ago

   He still won’t want his sister around, not until much later.

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   plus4 said, 3 months ago

   Well, how would Elly know? And perhaps Lawrence’s, um, status is another aspect of the former strip that Johnson is leaving behind… another one I personally won’t miss.

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   howtheduck said, 3 months ago

   Yes, Lizzie. Some day Mike will feel sexual attraction. Then he will want to build sand castles with his little sister. What? That’s a little twisted.

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   lightenup said, 3 months ago

   And I don’t think it has anything to do with boys and girls. I think that Michael just doesn’t want his younger sibling messing up their stuff. Happens every day with both brothers and sisters.

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   Wildmustang1262 said, 3 months ago

   Lizzie, I wish you would dump the sand over your brother’s head and put the pail in his head, too!

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    Ji2m said, 3 months ago

    Plus4,

    Are we a little homophobic?

    Howtheduck,

    I did not make that connection. Apparently you did though. what does that say about you?

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    JanCinVV said, 3 months ago

    Ji2m,

    Are we a little judgemental/paranoid?
    Since when does dislike of a story line = homophobe?

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    amongthestars said, 3 months ago

    Awww, the back of Lizzie’s little neck, with her head hung down - that brings tears to my eyes. At that age you just want to save them from every hurt, when other kids say “I don’t want you to play with us” it can break their darling hearts.

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    Doctor Toon said, 3 months ago

    I thought the storyline where Lawrence came out of the closet was some of Lynns’ best work.
    It was handled realistically and done with a great deal of sensitivity.

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    cleokaya said, 3 months ago

    Sure Lawrence will eventually want girls around. After all, he will realize that they make great friends.

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    Joe Allen Doty said, 3 months ago

    Oh, Lawrence liked girls while he was growing up and he liked women, too, when he was older.

    But, since his sexual orientation was shown as exclusively homosexual and he was openly gay, he only experienced physiological sexual attractions towards certain other guys.

    My sexual orientation is exclusively homosexual. But, when I hid in the proverbial homosexual closet, I was NOT gay, because I was in denial of my sexual orientation.

    Since I liked natural affection and I liked (and still like) women as friends, I had no problem with dating women in situations where no sexual activity was expected to take place. I dated the opposite gender until after I was 35 years old.

    But, in my family, there was no case where brothers and sisters did not like to play with each other.

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    Joe Allen Doty said, 3 months ago

    The weird part about this installment of the strip is that 3 women (at least, adult sized females) are the ones standing still and watching what the boys are doing.

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    Joe Allen Doty said, 3 months ago

    I would say that Lizzie volunteering to bring them sand (and dumping it) without even asking if she could join them was the problem.

    Michael, instead of getting angry with her, should have taken time to show her how to make her own sand castles. She wasn’ too young to learn how to do that.

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    kab2rb said, 3 months ago

    I remember a few strips back brother Michael wanted to play in the sand box and sister Lizzie would not let him. Time fly’s when children grow up. When young little ones are so cute.

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    Burgundy2 said, 3 months ago

    Joe Allen Doty despite the rudeness of a certain troll, I don’t mind you letting us know about your lifestyle. For myself, it gives me insight into a world I know very little about.

    I also wonder at people who feel free to comment so negatively about any strip. If I come across a comic that just doesn’t strike me as funny, I move on. I’d be afraid of hurting the artist’s feelings if I said something negative.

    Everyone, even comic strip artists, have bad days. And every reader has a slightly different idea of what is funny.

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    somebodyshort said, 3 months ago

    Thanks Joe, I actually appreciate your story and your insight into the comic, things I didn’t see at first.

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    summerdog said, 3 months ago

    Post whatever you feel like, Joe. I’ll read it.

    And yes, the Troll was just doing what Trolls do.

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    cjr53 said, 3 months ago

    It wasn’t too long ago that Lizardbreath was screaming to keep the boys out of the sandbox. They just dealt with it and didn’t go running to mommy.

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    Sheila said, 3 months ago

    Yeah, Micheal will want you around when he’s older, Lizzie, AFTER his kids are born and he needs a sitter

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    comicfan09 said, 3 months ago

    well i do think aaaaaaaaaaa15 was rather tactless but than again is calling someone a troll exactly mature. Anway I can’t argue with his earlier opinion, this comic has to go. It’s boring and just not funny oisn’t that the point of comics.

25. 

    Gweedo Murray said, 3 months ago

    Hi Joe Allen.

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    yyyguy said, 3 months ago

    J A D: your orientation makes no difference to me. nor does anyone else’s. i’ve found that your posts are generally worth reading, and i will continue to read them. i post my own comments for various reasons. sometimes to hopefully elicit a response, sometimes just to respond to someone else who either annoys or amuses me. i’ve “met” folks i consider friendly and amusing, and have found myself linked (so to speak) with various groups of them. it’s “only virtual” but it may as well be real, since the interactions are much the same. good wishes to you, and i hope i keep seeing you here.

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    RinaFarina said, 3 months ago

    I certainly do hope that Lyn does continue with the story about Lawrence’s homosexuality. Otherwise, he’s just one more stereotype surrounded by a bunch of stereotypes.

    @doctortoon, you said “realistically”, “with a great deal of sensitivity” - as usual, reading my mind and expressing it very well!

    I don’t have to laugh in order to be entertained! I do laugh now and then, tho.

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    4deerinmyyard said, 3 months ago

    To pretend to believe that the name of the category “comics” means that all strips are expected and required to be knee-slappers is ludicrous because it flies in the face of common comix-fan experience. It would certainly be news to Prince Valiant, e.g.

    I have no intention of wasting my time actually doing a survey, but I would bet that even among the gag-a-day subset, the majority are also telling a story with continuing characters and themes covering the spectrum of seriousness-vs.-silliness.

    This particular strip is somewhere in the middle – neither narrating an adventure saga nor doing one-panel slapstick. Lynn is giving us a series of slice-of-life snapshots, aiming for gentle smiles or chuckles of recognition, not daily ROFLMAOs.

    So if you don’t recognize it, why loiter about?

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    4deerinmyyard said, 3 months ago

    Oops, almost forgot: Joe Allen, I like novels.

    Of course, being of the loquacious persuasion myself, I would, wouldn’t I! :-)

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    summerdog said, 3 months ago

    comicfan, click on aaaaaaaaa15’s picture, and you will see what comments they have made today and on what comics.

    Smells like a Troll to me.

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    jldfire said, 3 months ago

    Troll defined: (via wikipedia)

    In Internet slang, a troll is someone who posts controversial, inflammatory, irrelevant or off-topic messages in an online community, such as an online discussion forum, chat room or blog, with the primary intent of provoking other users into an emotional or disciplinary response or of otherwise disrupting normal on-topic discussion.

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    Miba said, 3 months ago

    Anyone else think the umbrella in the first panel looks like a pencil? lol

    I think he was more mad about her dumping sand on his castle. It’s about a little sister messing up the older’s stuff. As the oldest I can certainly understand this, and have had the same reaction before.

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    Shikamoo said, 3 months ago

    @ Miba- At last, a sensible and funny post- well, plus a few others. this is still just a comic strip- enjoy it or leave it.

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    BlitzMcD said, 3 months ago

    And the sins of the family never fall on the daughter. Of course “That’s The Way Boys Are”! Lesley Gore said as much in song in 1964. So it must be true, right?

    Ah, once again imagine the howls of indignation of the boys started crying when Lizzie acted up and she got in trouble like she should have in the first place. But no, the male of the strip is supposed to be a sneak and a buffoon. That’s just the way things are. Just ask Michael’s daddy….

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    babsbybend said, 3 months ago

    I agree with howtheduck.

    Liz and Mike are not Susie Derkins and Calvin, or Schroder and Lucy.

    Liz and Mike are siblings and were acting like siblings,and Liz was definitely being the little bratty baby, regardless of her gender. It was a great “wow, Lynn must have a camera in my house”, until the last part, where Elly’s remarks about Mike made no sense.

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    howtheduck said, 3 months ago

    babsbybend,

    Thanks for the support. You’re right. If this were Susie Derkins and Calvin, it would have a whole different feel to it.

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    kjhesser said, 3 months ago

    basbybend, Elly didn’t make the comment, her friend did, but doesn’t matter. It’s just a witticism said by her friend and also true. A lot of little boys don’t want to play with little girls but when they are older they do for many reasons, maybe just intellectual enjoyment not always sexual. Siblings are always having conflict, very normal. Elly did fine there. She comforted Lizzie, but didn’t make the boys include her in their play, children of different ages should not have to include younger children if they are doing something with a friend their own age and Lizzie needs to learn she won’t be catered to constantly. But it would be ok if Elly helped Lizzie make a sand castle too.

38. 

    Kyler said, 3 months ago

    Perhaps those women are pedophiles?