Mary's Premonition

Friends, hold on, because you are never going to believe this. Like the Hemingway Complex, you probably assumed that New Country Road, site of Mary's long ride through the countryside, labelled by Toby as "a good place to think", and the scene of Chester's . . . whatever befell Chester, was a figment of the limitless imagination of Giella and Moy. I mean, that's what makes sense.

But tonight, as Hemingway Complex watched Premonition, we recieved the shock of our life. Because there in the fiery climax, which even if you just saw the previews you will recall as the scene in which a semi blindsides a car as it explodes and Sandra Bullock is running down the rural highway toward it screaming and you are holding your breath thinking holy crap - there in the background is a street with a sign labelling it New Country Road.

I know! I know! We are beside ourselves! Because this means that all that time, Mary was bicycling through the world of the collective imagination, and that at any moment she could've collided with a tanker truck which for all we know was also in the imagination of the imagined character of Sandra Bullock. AND that that's what happened to Chester! He was injured in a Hollywood stunt! Chester was a casualty of Premonition.

bum boat and relationship pitfalls

1. Either jeff can't park at all, or some other dunce is about to drive really slowly into the bumboat! omg!!!!

2. Mary, never date a guy who says "folks."

3. Also, does Mary drink alcohol?

"Bless you, dear."

Oh, goodness. First Toby tells her to give her new pet back. Then Jeff is allergic . . . and within MINUTES of walking into her house he tells her to choose between him and it! Between Jeff and the dog! Between a boyfriend she hardly sees since she "rescued" him from Vietnam on the psychic's advice (New readers: Check out them archives. That shit is magical!) and the pet she's been crediting with life-healing properties, who she maybe has already killed Toby in order to keep. Just what kind of position does Dr. Jeff Cory think he's in? Perhaps he is feeling extra desirable because he just dyed his hair? It used to be two-tone, grey and brown; now he has silver highlights. Anyway, weren't they about to go out to dinner? I thought we were headed back to the Bum Boat.

Hey, and check out the arm chub in panel two. Suddenly Mary has elephantiasis over there. Maybe that's why she's been wearing this same outfit for several days - she can't get out of it! Whew - she's not manic after all. By the way, what on earth is behind her head?