THE BOBBINS (2013-2022) ARCHIVE IS BACK UP!

I mentioned in a prior commentary that I threw ideas into the original Bobbins then swiftly moved on. The biggest and most difficult to get around was Shelley’s boyfriend Bruno. He was depicted as a lump. I think this was “commentary” (“”commentary””) on how the girls I liked at university always seemed to have some terrible, mutated, strong beast for a lover, and that was the reason they could not recognise my abundant charms. I learned later that we all have our peccadilloes, that every special someone is answering a question of the heart, and we are immodest to think we might answer that same question. But what question of the heart did Bruno answer?

Bruno and Shelley’s relationship is obviously incongruous, born out of my youthful sour grapes, but for some reason I like going back and trying to build a castle on this soggy sand. It’s a very fun game. Bruno vanishes quite early in the 1998 Bobbins, so I had license to work out how it ended for him and Shelley, at the very least. I think the foundation stone of their relationship is, Bruno loves Shelley and Shelley loves that Bruno loves her. I think they also have a lot of physical chemistry. Which is fine when you’re 18. But by this point she has outgrown the parameters of their relationship to such an extent that it’s undignified. Once I felt sorry for poor doomed Bruno, I could keep bringing him back forever.

The sexy ghost in panel 4 is Chekhov’s Sexy Ghost, mentioned a few strips earlier.

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