Anne v. Ava, Part One

Ava does have the "old Skywalker knack" for technology, but she hates it and it hates her.

I pretty loosely defined the "Anne v. Ava" comics. Basically any comic that included Anne and Ava and didn't fit in a different category got thrown in.

This comic is a carry on of an earlier joke where Anne comments that she works at the bank, but she called in sick with mad cow disease last August so she wouldn't actually have to go to work. Mad cow disease takes about two years to follow its course and begins that course by attacking the part of the brain that facilitates memory, just in case neither joke made sense.

And then there's Ava's remark. No, she's not kidding. I put it down to some sort of exotic learning disability that has probably never really happened. I mean in terms of there was no way Ava could ever get over it. She's in college and she still hasn't mastered basic arithmetic.

I threw that flaw into her character partly because Ava can't be perfect at everything. It also creates another joke: Anne's mathematical abilities far surpass Ava's (about the only field where Anne can claim that, really), but it's Ava you see handling the pair's finances. . . because she doesn't trust Anne not to run her into a million dollar debt in the course of the week!

Nope. You couldn't afford them, remember?

This was taken from something I read somewhere, about some star that will blow up at some random time in the future. The book said that when it does, scientists theorize it will be bright enough to read by at night.

Anne and Ava living under the same roof naturally creates some Sith-Jedi tension. Here we see Ava doing nothing to help the situation.

This was one of my favorite TSA comics ever. It's sort of based on a real story and heavily exaggerated.

My dad is a software engineer. . . he wound up on call on a Sunday, the normal Christian Sabbath. . .

That was the whole story really. In real life, no one actually called.

But the idea of Ava winding up a tech support during Saturday, the Jewish Sabbath, and exploring what her reaction would be, seemed hilarious. (At this time, Ava was quite willing to stand up for herself.) Especially when she blatantly announces that she won't be there, whatever her boss says.

Dun dun dun. . .

Ava in Panel One: "Did you fill in for me on Saturday? I'm getting some pretty weird complaints." Sorry my handwriting is so bad :)

This is one of my favorite Ava moments :)