The current story arc started with this strip: A New Adventure.
Larisa once again shows her love for long sentences.
I hope that strips like this one make it obvious that I don’t share all the opinions of my characters.
- Jelena: How was the trip?
- Larisa: … Exciting.
- Jelena: Exciting?? You didn’t burn the forest down, did you?
- Larisa: Nooo…
- Jelena: And you’re still a virgin?
- Larisa: Yeah…
- Jelena: That’s all I need to know. Bye!
- Larisa: The secret to an easy life is to lower the expectations of your parents to the point where they’re happy as long as you’re not sleeping with a drug dealer.
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XD She has a point, if you think about it…
How cunning.
At least we know that that they bothered to untie her. You’d almost expect them to be halfway home, then realize “We forgot to untie Larisa!”
That’s always(!) the point.
Lower the expectations! Then people are more surprised and pleased if you surpass them!
Heh, Larisa is my kinda gal. Or she would be, if she was older.
There’s something.. different about Larissa in the last panel. She almost looks like a young adult.
HA! That’s the Larissa we know and love! 😀
Larissa’s has a new achievement! “Didn’t burn down forest on a camping trip!”
That’s certainly a more adult version of Calvin’s philosophy.
Yuna & Cloud’s mom..whatever her name is.. are going to make Cloud’s life SO impossible.
@ New Name:
Actually, it sounds exactly what Calvin would say…if he was a teenage girl. Wait, that’s what Larisa is already!!! *crack*…..
Clever girl…
I wish someone had told-me that before…
Oh well, it’s never too late to start, right?
I have a sister that used to think just like larissa on the last panel…until she got pregnant….
Interesting enough, Jelena (Larisa’s mother, for those who desn’t know) only needs to know if there’s still both a forest and hi… eh, “inocence”, after the trip.
No need to talk about the boat crashing, her cell phone “tomahawking” a wolf or Cloud’s moment of “Mirror’s Edge”. Not even the Sandra’s kiss.
It looks like Jelena follows, to some extent, Larisa’s phylosophy from the last pannel, asking few and being happy with the results. In no way resembling the “trivia” when I come back to home too much late – And I’m 25 years old! ¬¬
Funny, I thought Larisa’s family was Russian; but according to Wikipedia, “Jelena” is a Croatian, Montenegrin and Serbian equivalent to “Helen”, and a Russian would be Elena, Yelena, or Alyona.
Now, I might be over-analysing here, but couldn’t Larisas obnoxious and over the top behaviour come from the lost attention of her parents?
Probably over-analysing.
Never worked for me, always some teacher that would say “He could do so much better if he applied himself!”.
@ Stormwatch:
Elena and Yelena are just different transliterations of the same Russian name. Jelena could be one too, if you read “JE” as “YE”.
“Sandra and Woo” is one of the few webcomics listed under “What do you mean, it’s not for kids?” on TVTropes. It looks like it will stay there for a while…
I love how her mother is asking her questions like that but at the same time is assuming that Larisa is honest about the answers XD’
Well, she is, but still! They obviously agreed that only things on the list her mother made are really important.
“I will never leave my group, I will not burn down the forrest, I will not touch my chaperone inappropriately, I will not burn down the forrest…”
And the secret to an easy life seems to be “Chaotic Neutral” once again. I mean, rules just from a list like that and nothing else? That does not count as a lawful act 😛
@ ekimmak:
My thoughts exactly
@ Sonic:
good save 😀
@ AmbiValent:
*sigh* I love TV-Tropes for things like that! XD
I think I’m going to re-read badass normal now. Or maybe the evil overlord list?
Larissa is cute in her own rights. I really prefer Sandra’s innocence generally though.
Also who else thinks the love triangle will be explored further?
@ Lushiris:
i don’t think it’ll be explored anytime soon, but i sure want it to be, cause i know its gonna be funny.
So wait, does that mean she can sleep with anyone else?
Those are some pretty creepy low standards. D:
The final stage of lowered expectations? Check for a pulse, then leave.
@ Billy Joe:
Well it’s hard to burn down a forest that’s soaked after a deluge.
I can identify. In grade school, I had super good grades and my parents were actually upset when I brought a B home and didn’t score 4.0 grade average for the whole thing. They were upset, even though my 3.87 average was the highest in our graduating class. (For those not familiar with the grading system, A is the highest grade and it gives 4 points. If you have all A’s, you end up with a 4.0 grade average).
In middle school I intentionally had horrible grades. My parents didn’t know what to do with me, but were more than happy when I had “barely-enough-for-college” grades in high school, and they didn’t even bother to ask any questions about school or almost anything.
By lowering their expectations during middle school, I made my high school life much easier.
As for me, I earned my parents’ trust with good behaviour until they stopped worrying and then stopped asking.
I love Larisa. Your characters just play off each other so well, and the art style sure has matured!
I can not express how much i like Larisa and her Crazy but Damn-Effective logic ^_^
Behold we have the 4th wall narrator pose. All she needs now is a thick book, large imposing chair and a rich looking robe.
@ Billy Joe:
ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED! “Only you can prevent forest fires.”
Spoken like a true genius.
Also, is this a reference to the strip in which Calvin was glad he had a C and not an A?
I find it hilarious that I got a ‘Smokey the Bear’ ad while reading this particular comic. Dunno why. XD
Larisa must be all over the place to justify those questions. What we’ve seen is tame for her. This can’t NOT be reason to worry…
You know now that I looked back so much I noticed how much Larisa and the other’ve grown. 🙂
But ya know if the theme keeps getting more and more serious I’ll be interested when will that last reply change. X)
Just… wow….
Shyamalan wrote:
That’s what I did,too.
Is it alright for me to advertise to vote for you in my “log” on a site?
@ Audioworm:
I suspect the only option besides this would be to kill them all off… I’m thinking that that is an improbable event. >_>
At 16 I went on a camp trip, and this were my answers to that questions
1: just the tent…
2: lip virginity anyway.
But my “tentmate” one night was off till morning… We joked about were he was, one year later he got a son under total diferent situation. He is a designer now but we still joke about that
My word. My heart broke a little seeing all these comments on deliberately not trying hard so to diminish one’s parents’ expectations. That’s tragic. Yeah, parents pushing for the absolute best may be a bear… but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t try anyway.
@ Tangentsreviews:
I assume you are a parent? o_Ô
Thank god I’m old enough for own thoughts but too young for having kids 😛
good days… well, more or less
“The more you know”…
*falls out of sky.*
you know… i think i really really like this chick… ^////^
Has she lied to her mother? I found this just a few hours ago and read the archive in one sitting, which means I could have missed some small detail, but isn’t she a self-admitted slut? She went on a rant about how she was proud of it after she had gotten over being upset by it. We didn’t see anything happen on this trip, but how could she still be a virgin with the way she treats the boys at school? Remember the belly piercing she was teasing jocks with? They are not used to being teased and would have ensured that she made good on her advances. I do not believe she could have still been a virgin at the start of the camping trip, let alone by the end of it.
Why is that quote NOT on a shirt? Oo
@ Uatchti:
She’s a slut according to the other girls her age, and as she was 13 or so at the time (I think), that generally amounts to kissing, not usually much more than that. Also, she doesn’t see any problem with acting “slutty” so she doesn’t really care what people call her.
Hey, just because you shouldn’t do it, doesn’t mean it’s not a good idea.