Supergirl 79?
on February 5, 2019 at 1:01 amLast we left our regular un-reintegrated narrative, Joe had recognized someone from across the pharmacy parking lot while waiting to meet his online crush! And in the Future Visions strip below, an explosion had just rocked SEMME headquarters as everyone was packing up.
SURPRISE! Joe’s love interest was Rachel! No, not Other Rachel, but Rachel! And certainly not Robin! WHAAAT? CRAZY!!!! That’s right, the supermarket cashier woman who Joe… was a shit to. Yeah, well. (When I was a kid, Rachel was a supermarket cashier woman? But also a brilliant engineer? For a middle few years after establishing this, I thought this maybe didn’t make sense, but then I got old enough to realize that getting out of college with a fancy degree does not a job hand you, so I boomeranged back.)
Anyway, earlier I left a big hint in the form of a “HER” and an arrow pointing to Rachel on a magazine in Rachel’s check-out aisle. It was not the first time I’d done something like this. Readers started poring through other strips, looking for hintful arrows. I’m pretty sure those two were it.
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commentary: I know the feeling, I got a computer animation degree so I could do immigration paperwork
…yeah
I know the feeling as well. I got a degree in history and now I work in retail.
I got a Computer Science degree to play in a band.
International Relations. Also retail.
That means I’m fully qualified to contemplate the state of affairs in various Asian governments as I stock the soy sauce.
I got an Applied Linguistics to do estimates for epoxy flooring.
I feel bad. I got a Computer Science degree and now I work in computers.
Granted, it’s administration and maintenance rather than programming so the degree is almost entirely useless, but it did get me out of the house for a few years, so that’s good.
Huh.
I missed both of those foreshadowings.
I feel like there’s some commentary to be made on how Joe’s online handle almost incorporates the ((())) tags that were being used to target Jews a while back, but I’m not sure what it should be.
Probably just “Nazis ruin everything” again.
I almost commented on the echoes but I didn’t feel like it was my place to say anything
“That’s really super, Supergirl.”
(The song’s lyric has nothing to do with the arc, but I just wanted to drop the title. And earworm some XTC.)
Now that’s how you foreshadow.
I was a cashier in quite a few places while holding a Master’s degree in Education. Bleh.
I mean, some degrees are more useful than others. A Master’s in most sorts of engineering should usually get you a job out of college; engineers are pretty reliably in demand.