![[1125] Laid-Back Lifestyle](/comics/2019-10-25-1125-laid-back-lifestyle.png "[1125] Laid-Back Lifestyle")
I’m sorry for posting the new strip one day late.
There will be only one new strip next week. Maybe Powree can draw a little illustration as replacement…
Check out the first results of our artwork contest!
Update: More results from our artwork contest!
- Man: My boy snatched my drill yesterday. I was barely able to stop him before he turned his room into Swiss cheese.
- Woman: My daughter went on a big shopping spree at Amazon last week!
- Man: You’re lucky, Mrs. Williams! Your kids are never up to such nonsense!
- Woman: Must be nice not to have to be on your guard 24 hours a day.
- Ye Thuza: Yeah, it’s really laid-back…
- Caption: The day before.
- Yuna: I wonder what happens when I put a piece of molybdenum here.
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Huh. Where are the comments? Did something break?
Funny how there was a strip way back then which actually called out the “damn kids” mentality: http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2012/12/27/0441-children-today/
Yet the last three strips, plus:
– http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2019/09/05/1112-it-has-no-mouth-but-it-must-scream/
– http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2019/09/09/1113-spaceman-rick/
Fall into said mentality. Some kids kick you in the knee this year or something?
@ Antiyonder:
Yes, damn kids today! How dare they have an interest in expensive art and pushing the boundaries of physics. They should be partying, disrespecting parents and listening to rap music with no culture, refinement, or pushing themselves to be better than the generation before!
Hey, that’s misspelled! *looks it up* …. I just understood why I failed chemistry
SlugFiller wrote:
Yeah, it posted a day later in the week than normal, so you’re the first to find it.
As much as Ye Thuza is shaking there, I see she still has some confidence in Yuna. I mean, she’s only wearing a protective goggles, not a full-body power-armor.
@ Antiyonder:
Kids these days have no respect for the laws of physics. It’s true.
Thisguy wrote:
Actually what I got from the recent strips and the two I linked is that all kids are a financial burden to their parents and lack any redeeming value. But then to be fair, the overall trend of the series suggesting that there’s no such thing as a good/respectable person seems to be applied to adults.
I don’t know. Last time we had a strip that lacked a “life sucks and so doea everyone in it” vibe to it was Good Pets last year: http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2018/10/01/1026-good-pets/
And this: http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2018/03/15/0972-richard-is-in-doubt/
Yeah! More Yuna comics. You know how to make us happy! 🙂
I’m not sure why they think her kids are never up to such nonsense, what with strange gravitational pull coming from one side of their house and a son who can take a bully down with plasticware.
I guess the Problem is, that they can’t really bitch about their children Like the other parents because the storys would be to extreme
I’m surprised Yuna didn’t build a forcefield yet for the more “experimental” experiments.
At least she isn’t building any inators.
More insurance coverage!
Weirdly enough, molybdenum is very stable and has a high melting point. Butting it there would have less impact than putting a regular paperclip in the same location… So, nothing to worry about.
You can use it as plant fertilizer, though… 😉
@ Wim ten Brink:
Look up “Technetium-99m generator” I think that is what she is trying to replicate.
But that requires some other *substance* that is a little more dangerous, and i to would be biting on my nails if i knew she was handling that..
Molybdenum? MolybDENIED, amiright?
“Yeah, it’s really laid-back.” True, laid back is what one is after explosions.
@ Antiyonder:
“what I got from the recent strips […] is that all kids are a financial burden to their parents and lack any redeeming value”
I feel like you’re reading too deep into this… And also really mean-spirited. You seem to forget that Richard, after seeing the painting, realized that it wasn’t just a stupid impulse buy of a stupid kid… It was actually a really nice piece that he would want to have in the house. Even joking that he’d be keeping it in his room. It happened in literally the next page, after the spaceman spiff spoof.
http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2019/09/12/1114-overshot/
Also, I don’t see what you mean by the whole “life sucks and so doea (sic) everyone in it’ vibe” you were talking about being in those two comics… Because one was Sandra being drained because she lost to her biggest rival… A contest that, IIRC, Sandra had challenged her to… Over who would get to stay at the beach? Or something?
And we have no idea what Richard was going through, so it’s much more likely that he was just tired because he worked all day. If it was about people being awful… we would have been shown him having to deal with his day, for good or ill, then being cheered up.
And both were about the people/raccoons around them, and how it was important to reach out and do some good, because sometimes, people have bad days… It’s not a “life sucks and so does everyone” situation… It’s a “Life isn’t always a walk in the park, so it’s always nice to be nice when you can.” Which is a WHOLLY different kind of message and tone.
Aloyisius McGillicuddy wrote:
No, my comment was quite the opposite. I was stating that Richard is in Doubt and Good Pets were the last time the strip had an uplifting feel to them. Everything after Good Pets is pretty much a negative statement about people overall.
As for Overshot? I put it in the same category as something like: http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2019/04/25/1077-ye-thuza-is-in-the-top-10/
If both strips came out in the earlier years when the default tone wasn’t cynicism, I’d be able to see it as a friendly joke between family, but again haven’t seen any unironically positive strip following Good Pets.
@ Wim ten Brink: I don’t think it’s the molybdenum itself that has Ye Thuza worried, just what her inventive black hole-creating daughter might do with anything.
Did you realize that Ye Thuza has not only a Fire Extinguisher, but also a big bag of Sand at Range?
JE wrote:
Yes. She has experience.
Salisria wrote:
There might be also the little issue of her inventive daughter NOT BEING SURE what will happen.
Kev wrote:
I would say she has confidence staying on the same PLANET.
If there’s only one strip next week, wouldn’t now be the perfect time to ask around for guest strips? It’s been a long time since the last guest strips, and a week gives those who are interested the time to spare!
Molly be damned?