Grace Returns
Ah… I’ve missed the snark. I actually like writing for Grace. She has a despicable charm…. and I know many of you have lamented her absence. Feel better?
Ah… I’ve missed the snark. I actually like writing for Grace. She has a despicable charm…. and I know many of you have lamented her absence. Feel better?
grace is back!
we missed ya!
btw…about the time period when we didn’t see grace in the strip, placed together with your opening comment about grace herself…
would that be considered, “jumping the snark”?
Every story needs at least one really great antagonist. Grace is to Squid Row as the Daleks are to Doctor Who.
Well you know what they say about assuming! It. . . um. . . it makes an. . . something. . . don’t do it.
With the way many coffee houses are today it seems like the perfect job for Grace. You almost expect snark from a lot of baristas.
I used to frequent a place that had a lot of charm and atmosphere, the only real down side to it was that you got service with a sneer. But the place was so awesome that people were willing to put up with it.
Sadly the place was owned by a couple of “interesting” people and when they decided that it was time to have a baby they simply gave the place lock stock and barrel to a friend of theirs.
He promptly changed everything ruining the atmosphere and put the place out of business in a couple of years.
You kidding, Pasha? Some pay extra for the snark!
Jeph over at QC wasn’t totally making that up. 😉
Well, I don’t know if feel BETTER is the word. Maybe… complete is a better word, I’m thinking.
Grace really is a strong character to the comic. An excellent countpoint to Randie & Co., but not really evil. Nasty without being bad. I doubt you could have done better with the character as we’ve seen her so far. She’s even grown after a fashion, which is essential to keep them fresh and interesting.
Pete,
I’m not sure that Grace has grown; I think it’s more that we’ve slowly picked upher back-story.
Hey, Squiddie Gang… Your comments about coffee shop snark make me laugh. It’s true, certain places offer up their coffee with an added value… I’m too cool to serve you, or Do I have to help you? or what-ev. My across the street local coffee joint, Rollick’s is always cheerful with their service… so I never get that. BUT, I feel it at some Santa Cruz joe joints.
To Randie, baristas are kinda rock-star status… But I suppose that Grace isn’t Rock-star… more like cover your ears death-metal.
I do think Grace has grown as a character in the strip… I think we’ll get more of THAT in the future. Be fore warned.
Hmmm… jumping INTO snark. Yah, that’s it.
I have yet to understand why people go to coffee shops when you can buy a two-pound can of “ground roast” for less than $10. Now I have to deal with people wanting to be insulted there.
Eh… Coffee is coffee. Life is weird.
Bonjour, Attic Rat… Life is sooo weird. I think the going to cafes may have something to do with the coolness factor of coffee and its places. Or maybe it’s that it’s something to get you out of the office and the interaction-ability of going to get coffee.
I do love me some coffee. I drink it at home first thing in the morning… then, I get some decaf tea in the mid morning at the local coffee haunt… and sometimes I will meet someone for coffee as a social thing. Ya know… I betcha someone has written a smartie paper at some big university on this very subject.
Heh, she always makes me think of one of the songs from Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol:
We’re reprehensible!
We’ll steal your pen, and your pencible!
We’ll sneer at you,
Leer at you,
Naughtily!
I swear we ought to be,
In Jail!
La, la, la-la-la-la-la!
The Auld Grump – I can still sing every darned song from that silly thing….
@Brig
Jumping into the snark … is that like steering into the skid? 🙂
Grump… Wha? Mr. Magoo! Ha ha ha… this makes me laugh!
Grey… YAH! Probably! Ha ha… (more laughing).
Heh, never seen it, have you?
Here’s the song on You Tube – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOJBU95pVmw