#249 – Cluster of horrible, tiny people
Wednesday, June 24th, 2009This is actually “Wednesday’s” comic. Friday’s comic will be up later today.
by Rene Engström
Guys! ALM is finished but I have a new comic calledSo Far Apart.
This is actually “Wednesday’s” comic. Friday’s comic will be up later today.
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June 26th, 2009 at 7:16 am
Wow, this really captures the whole “cattle market” feel of being inside the building. Great page!
Maria looks so sweet and tiny, too.. You just want to find her a quiet corner to sit in.
June 26th, 2009 at 7:37 am
Teenage Maria is great, the first panel conveys so much about who she is and who she will be. brilliant visual story telling.
June 26th, 2009 at 7:58 am
Haha great comic! Can’t wait for the other one!
June 26th, 2009 at 8:43 am
Cluster of tiny, horrible people…describes highschool PERFECTLY!
(actually, I’m a short-arse, myself, so I WAS the ‘tiny’ part of it but the ‘horrible’ part…well, I went to an all-girls highschool….*shudder* ‘horrible’ doesn’t even BEGIN to describe it!!!)
You know, I’m really hanging out to find out what happens with Anders and Maria and their baby. But I have to say, it’s really nice getting an insight into what has made everyone they way they are today, via these flashbacks.
Thank you, Rene!
June 26th, 2009 at 8:50 am
FLASHBACKS FLASHBACKS FLASHBACKS! I love them! They almost seem like THE major part of the story. Like, we were plunged in right in the middle to start with and are looking back on the meat of the story. The character development is great!
June 26th, 2009 at 10:00 am
I *<3* Björn X3
June 26th, 2009 at 10:02 am
Brilliant! I love this one! Then again I love all of the A<3M I’ve read.
June 26th, 2009 at 10:08 am
Love the comic! Wish you had a random button though so I could flip through the story and say “aww I remember that.” You truly are an inspiration.
June 26th, 2009 at 11:14 am
YAYYY.
June 26th, 2009 at 1:06 pm
For me it was more clusters of big, horrible people. But small-minded!
June 26th, 2009 at 2:07 pm
That.. that is brilliant and I love it. Replace “Horrible” with “loud” or “clingy”, and you’d get the elementary school where my mom works. *grins*
June 26th, 2009 at 2:09 pm
You have been doing really well with the 3x a week updates! Keep up the great work! and now I’ve jinxed it…
June 26th, 2009 at 3:26 pm
bahahahahhahahaha
*2009 graduate dance*
perfect.
June 26th, 2009 at 3:40 pm
bjorn seems so lovely. i have always liked anders. even when his behaviour was so completely insane. im beginning to waver though. i wonder what happened to them …
June 26th, 2009 at 4:05 pm
I find it odd how I’ve come to identify young maria more with the character of maria than old maria.
June 26th, 2009 at 4:33 pm
Oh man! I went to an all-girls’ school, too *shudders*, which means that everybody was pretty shorts…and I was 5’10″.
I am saving this one.
June 26th, 2009 at 5:52 pm
Ah yes high school was indeed a horrible thing.
Are the gossiping girls in then penultimate panel simply standard teenage gossips, or is the “Did you hear/Oh my gawd” an indication that they are gossiping about … Maria? Tina? Michael Jackson?
June 26th, 2009 at 6:46 pm
Wednesday, Friday, as long as there’s more!
June 26th, 2009 at 7:19 pm
At this point of the story Tina is no longer in school, at least not in that one since Maria is about to graduate. At least I think so since she (or Björn in her place) applied to Konstfack. So no gossiping about Tina. It’s probably something random.
June 26th, 2009 at 9:57 pm
i LOVE maria’s hair long.
and this comic is absolutely brilliant.
June 26th, 2009 at 10:11 pm
I knew a girl like teenage-Maria once.
I helped her with her problems, and then she turned twenty… twenty-one… and twenty-too-cool-for-you.
A comic that draws upon memories of the reader as always. Such a bittersweet plot you’ve managed, keep it up!
June 26th, 2009 at 10:52 pm
I’m kind of hoping this comic ends with Bjorn <3′s Maria
…
…I’ll just go stand in the corner now alone I suppose….
June 26th, 2009 at 11:13 pm
Totally worth the wait!
Bjorn hipdeep in horrible tiny people takes me back. Mad props to Gulliver, horrible tiny people in clusters = lemmings with attitude.
June 27th, 2009 at 1:34 am
I love the idea of Maria’s older boyfriend turning up at her school full of girls and just verbally damning all of them. It’s so Maria and it must have made her feel so proud, while at the same time highlighting so badly how she didn’t really have the family to turn to instead
February 8th, 2011 at 5:03 am
Easily my favorite line in the whole thing.