For those of you that hope that Gordon gets a worse punishment then Micheal, don’t. In later strips we find out that his father beats him. Very severely too.
I was born in 1978, I remember getting Candy Cigarettes even back in the 1980’s, Both my mom and Stepmother smoke, but even with all that I’ve never once tried a cigarette.
Obviously they are fundamentalists. Fundamentalist Christians believe that animals don’t go to Heaven, Special needs people don’t go to heaven, and children younger then 7 don’t go to heaven, as none of them can understand “God’s word”. So watch out Ruthie, your not olde enough yet.
I always laugh at the part when he sees what his town would be like. His brother’s dead, his mom runs a hostel, his friends live in squaler, his uncle is in an insane asylum but the worst thing; his wife became a spinster librarian. The horror, the horror.
Who pops popcorn nowadays? In my family we stopped doing that when I was in Elementary school. Microwave popcorn for the win.