Uh-oh. I have a bad feeling about this. We're still headed toward "How I Learned to Meddle" by Mary Worth and the mark of doom is on that little girl. What tragedy is going to befall Cathy?
The Hemingway Complex has a children's cookbook from the 80s wherein the Flash goes to a potluck dinner. Beforehand he prepares a cake in nanoseconds. The cooling-down stage is accomplished with mighty breath that looks quite a bit like what Cathy and Mary are doing to that dandelion. Only, where from that illustration we end up with cake, in this one a flower is defoliated with the children's Napalm breath and we end up with some sort of gem.
As far as the bewildering timeline eveidenced in this strip, I feel it's important to note that Mary's character first appeared in 1939, at which time she was supposed to be sixty years old. From her activities and sporty pantsuits it seems she is now supposed to be about 65 years old. In any case, Mary would have been a child at the end of the nineteenth century. So what's with the jeans and ponytails?
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