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- Harriet: Can you help me to–
- Harriet: — Where did you get that painting?
- Landon: Larisa painted it for my birthday. Do you like it?
- Harriet: If I ever see you again with that witch, you’ll be in for a sound beating!
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aww no, poor Landon D: I was hoping his mum would just be a comical jerk, but now there’s gonna be actual drama noooo my poor babyyy
but I guess Larisa gets to do something cool now story-wise
That was mean!
Such a good picture destroyed by anger induced vandalism. How is that compatible with being a faithfull believer in christianity? :'(
Don’t you just love the Religious Wrong? WHO’s the witch here. exactly?
@ Egomane:
Speaking as a Christian, radicalism exists anywhere.
I honestly thought that was supposed to be Joan of Arc, until I saw the tag.
If Larisa sees what she did to her painting I’m pretty sure that Landon’s mom will become the next “girl on fire”.
: )
Maybe if Harriet could just hear Larisa’s secret, she might finally be able to accept her. (Hint, hint, Novil!)
Ouch, Harriet can really go to extreme measures to control her family !
No wonder why her husband was so happy chatting with larissa :p that simply gave him some time to speak with other people which would not try to enfore their views on you
Here, because Harriet dislikes Larisa, it seems she want the other people to dislike larisa too !
Is Harriet some kind of control freak ?
Religion has nothing to do with the fact that someone is just plain mean and controlling. That describes Harriet to a T.
Wow, I haven’t had such an immediate visceral dislike toward a character in a while.
Yikes. This doesn’t look good for Landon, Larisa, or Edward. And all because of Harriet over here. What a horrible misrepresentation of Christianity.
Now before you all blow up in my face about that comment, what I am trying to say is that Harriet seems like she was created as a character to be a misrepresentation of a major religion in order to create interesting storylines such as this one. Harriet is not an undereducated stereotype but rather a perfectly executed character. Well done, Novil.
Well, this just stopped being funny. It’s rather worrying if such a person is actually wearing the pants in the family.
Ok, she just went from amusing to MEGADICK.
Wow.
Landon’s mother must be a Battle Royale fan.
Ouch. Reminds me of that one Tumblr post I saw about somebody’s mother burning their ‘Ava’s Demon’ kickstarter book, just because it had swearing in it.
That really bothered me I’ve seen all the work that went into making and hand-packaging that stuff and it’s gets destroyed in an instant by overblown intolerance.
this just isn’t funny at all and i hope it isn’t intended to be…
i mean am i the only one really turned off at the implications of domestic abuse
like, really really turned off
Oh, alright, now that’s quite a bit too much.
What’s next, ma’am, strangling a puppy because you deam it hellspawn for its yelping?
Characters far greater than you have faced very undesirable fates for such misdemeanor!
I almost cried reading this comic…
No. NO. NO!
(Daniel Bryan style)
It had been a while since I saw a fictional character cross the line so cleanly and thoroughly. Nicely done!
@ Tau: I think that’s the idea. Up until now Landon’s mom hadn’t gone beyond being ridiculous, but here she’s done (and said) something the vast majority of people are going to strongly disagree with. IMO there is no joke in this strip, just heavy artillery, hopefully in preparation for a story arc and interesting character development.
Destroying a good painting? OH.IT.IS.ON.
Prepare for war Larissa, you will leave a trail of fire in your path of revenge.
I don’t like the Hunger Games, and even I think that’s cruel. I think I know who the REAL witch is (maybe substitute a letter).
It isn’t. @ Egomane:
I usually try to not judge new(er) characters too quickly: they might have quirks or flaws that need time to grow or even been seen to help flesh them out before I make a call on ‘if I like them or not’.
Harriet doesn’t get that chance.
Threatening her son over a painting that was a GIFT and contained nothing really objectionable is just the sign of a woman wanting to control those around her. While she might THINK she’s doing the right thing to ‘protect’ them, the irony is that she is causing more harm than what she’s ‘fighting’ against.
She needs to realize that this is Landon’s first ‘real’ relationship and that the future of his interactions with women are being forged here with Larissa. The two teens may stay together; they may not (despite how much everyone is pulling for them) but Harriet is seriously threatening to screw up her son’s entire worldview of how relationships are ‘supposed’ to be.
Not only that, but she is potentially making it the situation worse because if her blind hatred of Larissa continues, it will only push Landon into making sure he stays with Lar even if only to spite his mother (again, I don’t want to see that happen and I don’t think either of them would use the other like that). Add to that the fact that Landon and Lar are getting old enough to realize there’s more to a relationship than movies and goofing off-there’s the physical aspect of it as well.
Even though Larissa is a free spirit and is trying to live life to the fullest possible, I don’t see her as someone jumping into a physical relationship without giving it serious thought and discussing it with Landon. HOWEVER, if her mother keeps this up, at some point it may seem to the kids that taking that step is the only way left of fighting back to prove how much they care for each other. Again-Harriet is pushing the kids into a situation they’re not ready for as a defense mechanism when if she allowed some measure of self-guidance from the pair, that physical aspect could well move further off into the future.
It’s amazing how much fictional characters can move people to defend them-but when it happens (as in this case) we do so because everyday in our real lives this happens: good people who love each other are torn apart by those refusing to simply let them follow their hearts. So we defend those we can-even the fictional ones-cause deep down we want them to be happy because so many can’t .
I’m going to keep pulling for Landon and Larissa. Even if their relationship does end at some point I want it to be because they chose to end it as the right thing to do, and not as a result of narrow minded people acting out in fear and loathing.
Landon and Lar-got for it! We’ve got your back kids!
Later…
Doctor: You say you got the splinter while destroying a painting? Well, I can confirm that you did get it all out, but I have no idea why it isn’t healing after all this time. Now, I’ll have to refer you to a neurologist for that trapped nerve that you got while beating your hall rug, but yes, it does look serious, you can hardly move your fingers at all. And as for the migraines, I can only suggest that you avoid having any more public showdowns, especially with schoolgirls. Now, I don’t think talk of voodoo curses really helps – as a doctor of medicine and also a lifelong christian, I can assure that such things cannot stand against science and god…
Meanwhile…
Larisa: They say that faith can move mountains… but it’s not a lot of good against the monsters from my id…
@ Egomane:
Maybe the question could be:
Imagine how much meaner would she be if she weren’t a Christian?
Correlation doesn’t imply causality.
You know what SCREW YOU HARRIET !!!!!!!!!!!!
Agustin Amenabar L. wrote:
I feel that legitimately mean people that pick up religion generally get worse, hiding behind “the greater good” and other such twadlle.
@ MawileCeyvis:
Well you know everybody’s different. But for real if she were a real Christian instead of judging sinners she would try to help them see the light. It even says so directly in the Bible. How can i judge someone when I can’t judge myself? Well I know it’s not the exact text but it’s in there.
Honestly I was expecting her to ramble about hunger games but no.
Also I’ve dusted off my old gba games to play on my GameCube. Don’t Play Power Rangers Ninja Force it’s pure shit!
Girl on Fire WoooooooooW a double meaning!!! A Double meaning all the way.
I guess I’m the first to notice. 🙂
Just the drama i wanted =)
Thanks a bunch for this arc!!! =))))
it is always those, who in their secret heart, are afraid that their belief is weak. and with that fear, they strike out at those who question or otherwise challenge that belief system by being themselves. failure to accept the true nature of the world in its diversity and striking out at those who are different just leads to heart-break and disaster for those around them.
this action and statement by Harriet will cause immense harm and hatred in her son. Unless she starts living as Christ commanded instead of what she perceives as what she thinks it should be, she is headed for some serious hurt.
In my opinion, of course.
This is beyond overprotective, this is just downright abusive.
He should’ve posted it on deviant art first
So she’s not just an overprotective religious extremist, she’s also outright abusive to her son. The way she says it, over a simple painting she disliked, sounds like this isn’t the first time she’s threatened this kind of thing. No normal parent would threaten to beat their child over a simple painting. The only kind of person who would threaten something so extreme over something so mild is someone who is extremely abusive, and has done this sort of thing before, threatening violence to make her son behave in a way she approves of.
@ Egomane: As a Christian I can tell you, there are plenty of people who claim to be Christians who are just basically subscribing for the sake of image, whatever that image may be. Her image seems to be that of a faithful attendee of Wesbro Baptist…. grrrrrrrrrr….
Try it and you’ll get beaten right back, lady. >:(
…Well maybe not, but it’s what I’d like to say!
@ Alex C:
Agreed
I think my heart just broke… :'( You can tell Landon really valued the gift!
Ah, destroying your child’s posessions and threatening to assault them, still a proud religious fundie tradition.
This is the most heat breaking Sandra and Woo I have seen so far.
@ MissQuinn:
I would only make one point: It wasn’t the painting itself that Harriett disliked but the fact the Larissa created the painting. By destroying the painting, she is effectively “burning Larissa in effigy” by destroying anything Larissa creates.
Otherwise, I tend to agree – she is interpreting her religion to HER PREFERENCES, not necessarily following the religion itself.
Keep commenting, and take care!
When Larissa finds out about this, she’s going to burn something of Harriet’s.
“Every time you destroy something of his, I’ll destroy something of yours. And I guarantee your stuff is more expensive to replace.”
Was that really necessary?
Very nice painting but I didn’t really like the Hunger Games very much. Katniss is all “I don’t care about that boy one way or the other” and then shortly after is all “WHY DO YOU WANT TO BE TRAINED SEPARATELY FROM ME, PEETA?!!!”
I feel like Larissa would have loved Battle Royale more than Hunger Games. It’s a lot more graphic.
And I’m kind of sad that I only saw one other Battle Royale reference here.
My reaction: http://i2.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/244/512/258.jpg
@ Agustin Amenabar L.:
Do you have any idea what you just said? At all? Do you know how many BILLIONS of people you just insulted with that, myself included? And why?
Is your image of Christianity so willfully ignoranr and squeeky-clean that you can’t admit that it gives plenty of people an excuse to treat everyone around them like shit? Or maybe you carry such a strongly negative impression of non-christians that you assume no matter how violent and selfish people can be under the “sound moral guidance” of demented desert fairy tales (which is about as internally consistent as any ancient propaganda piece written for uneducated, illiterate simpletons) that you automatically assume they still must be better than whatever them dirty heathens be doin’? I want to know.
AHH!!! NOOOOO!! WHY MUST YOU DISTROY SOMETHING SO BEAUTIFUUULLLL?!?!?!? (Starts to weep)
Harriet, was that really necessary?
Ouch, this hurts on a very personal level. Here’s hoping Harriet gets her comeuppance.