More Mary
Thanks to Melissa, commenter at The Comica Curmudegon, we receive the following Palm Beach Post analysis.
Mary Worth, the comic strip your grandma used to love, suddenly is red-hot.
Is it because an extreme makeover took away her wrinkles and the junk in her trunk, turning a frumpy widow into a saucy senior?
Or is it the holy-cow story line, which has her being hounded by a Captain Kangaroo look-alike who may have offed his wife?
Whatever the case, Mary Worth, a strip about the original desperate housewife, is on fire. Thousands of people have taken to the Internet to analyze and debate her every move — something unheard of for a comic from the dinosaur age.
The story lines have sizzled with mystery and suspense since early July when a bizarre new character was introduced. Aldo Kelrast, who bears a striking resemblance to the late TV host Captain Kangaroo, wants Mary. Bad.
At first, good ol’ Mary was in denial. She thought it was “flattering” that Aldo wanted to hook up, even while the gossip-mongering chatterboxes at Charterstone Condominium Compex in Santa Royale, Calif., where Mary lives, had all but branded Aldo a psycho wife-killer stalker guy.
Will Aldo snap? Will Mary be harmed? Will her lover return from his medical mission of mercy in Cambodia to save the day?
SEE?!?! It’ s NOT just me…
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