July 14th, 2023
14 Jul 2023 · page 1175 of 1306
Oof ouch oof
Cast: Elaine Barber, Frederick Barber, Harriet Barber, Henry Barber, Sidney Malik
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Ooooh. I mean, I'm guessing that Harry not telling her Mother is totally about her Mother, but I'm betting it's still going to hurt Sid a bit.
Although he does know about not telling parents things, and his parents are awesome, so I hope he doesn't get too upset.
Gren has wandered all the way off, having decided to have no part of this and figuring Henry and/or Sid can take care of it.
Good grief, have they really not seen Harry since she cut her hair four years ago?? (I mean, I can see why, but still…)
And if Harry’s parents didn’t know about the haircut, do they even know she disappeared for months?
Well do keep in mind Communication is a 2-Way street. she might not have talked to her parents for 4 years but they didn't say anything for at least the same length or longer
So, what emotion-spirit do you think was generated by the intersection of that glare and twinkle in panel 3? - Because you don't pump that kind of psychic energy so abruptly into a relatively closed system without some sort of reaction.
There's an end-of-disc RPG boss fight happening in there
From Mrs Frederick, annoyance. From Henry, malice. I’m wondering if all the problems in this family are caused by him, and he does it deliberately.
He's probably not blameless, but from what we've heard, she's said some lowkey awful stuff to Harry and Nicola
It sounds like their mother has caused quite a few problems for her children by forcing her expectations on them. It's no surprise Harry has more or less cut contact with her.
Now I'm wondering how much Harry has told Sid about her parents
Virtually nothing, I think.
Highly possible Harry says nothing to her parents, period.
Given that it looks kinda like Sid and Fred might be cut from the same cloth... though perhaps a better warp.
Note to Sid: This would be the perfect moment* to take Fred aide and ask for his daughter's hand...
...
... The perfect *comedy moment I mean; go on, you are a showman at heart after all..
Cheerio,
I was flipping a coin in my head that she probably hadn’t told them, tho either because they’d be annoying in the “oh FINALLY you have a man, now you can settle down and have babies and stop running around” nonsense or because they will try and pick him apart for any supposed flaw
...omg, I just noticed Elaine says "Hrm" in panel 2! That is not where I expected Harry to have gotten it from.
Just don't tell Harry that she "sounds like her mother", I bet she'd hate that.
I can believe that Harry hasn't told her Mum. But I can't believe Harry hasn't told Florrie. And if Florrie knows, everyone will know.
So the question is, where is Florrie?
Looks like the mom is so toxic no one talks to her. And also likely she is keeping her husband from talking to his own kids and parents. She could have visited Harry, of course, but she didn’t.
Thought Harry and Sid were, like, 30 after the time jump. Seeing this makes me think she's a bit younger than that.
Oh noooo! Poor Sid! Caught in the middle of the worst family drama
"Who are you?"
"... weeeellll from what I've heard so far, chances are that you'll nominate me your worst enemy and nightmare [for trying to marry your daughter] shortly. Now would you like me to continue politely introducing myself, or do you prefer to find out yourself?"
I'm not crazy about the "family problems" theme that seems to be the main focus of this final chapter, but ok. Anyway I see in the first panel a hint of a different expression, "you cut your hair" and a look like she's a bit hurt by the fact that her daughter doesn't share with her not even this little fact of her life, so in the next panel she reacts being more aggressive to conceal it.
Anyway, I like Elaine because I usually like the characters the reader is not "supposed" to like, ha ha
That said it 's a bit incredible that the parents didn't know about Sid after 4 years, but we'll believe it for the sake of the story
WELP this is going to trainwreck at epic speeds.
"Uh, Well, I'm Harry's F--uh, well, I can't say that yet."
Sid was going to propose to Harry without her parents knowing about their relationship. Oof.
From what we have seen the grandparents are the surrogate parents. Awkward to have the toxic parents you are avoiding to save your sanity show up at a work gathering!