I have long said that in order for any comedy to truly succeed as a story, there has to be meat beneath the jokes. There has to be that moment when it is not funny any more.
You know, I love ideas, ideas are everything. I always say human beings don’t do anything without an idea. And ideas for me, the ones that are important to me, are ones that come along and pop in. You see the thing, like a cinema idea. I only get them in fragments but you see it, in the mind, like on a screen. First you see the thing, then you hear the thing, you feel the mood of the thing, and you know it. But it’s a gift, it’s a thrill, it wasn’t there and now it’s there. It’s even hardly anything to do with imagination. It just pops in, then you know it, and you should write it down. It’s a beautiful thing to catch an idea that you love.
– David Lynch
Take the emotional sequence in which Wonder Woman walks, then runs,
alone across a WWI battlefield—no-man’s-land—to liberate a small town
from German soldiers. She doesn’t know she’s not going to die—it’s only
while fighting to survive the distance that she discovers the true
strength of her superpowers. “That scene is my pride and joy,” Jenkins
says. “Because it’s about her transformation into Wonder Woman, rather
than us watching Wonder Woman show up.”
— ELLE US December 2017.
See this book? This was published in 1998. I got it when I was 8 from my school bus driver for being really helpful on the route map for her first day, so this book has been in my possession for 19+ years. It’s very battered, but all the pages are still there, taped together, because the binding glue didn’t react well to the environment I lived in at the time.
Page 32 has a special “Bonus” spot for Lyman, with “updated” (for 1998) profile art
Closer look at the page
JON, WHAT DID YOU DO?
Oh, and also, if you know your Garfield Lore, then Lyman was Jon’s roommate until 1983, then left for an unknown reason, leaving Odie behind. He did appear in a Logo Box for Garfield’s 10th Birthday strip in 1988, as a cameo, but for the most part, Lyman has been absent for so long, they have continually rewritten how exactly Jon obtained Odie, ranging from adopting him from the same shop as Garfield, to adopting Odie a couple years into owning Garfield.
Except for
The popular 90s Garfield flash game, “Garfield’s Spooky Scavenger Hunt”, in which you can find Lyman chained up in a basement as a hidden eastern egg. He begs Garfield to give him some muffins to eat, then disappears after you leave the room and come back.
Garfield Lore is pretty messed up when you dig around.
Who do I think I would’ve been if I hadn’t been Princess Leia? Am
I Princess Leia, or is she me? Split the difference and you’d be closer
to the truth. Star Wars was and is my job. It can’t fire me and
I’ll never be able to quit, and why would I want to? - Carrie Fisher (October 21, 1956 – December 27, 2016)
