Like Husband, Like Wife: Laverne's Vicious Cycle
Elwood High Issue 190 is out this morning. After a torturous series of rapid-fire tragedies, Laverne has finally hit the brink. When we last saw her, in Issue 188, her spoke to her long-lost daughter, Catherine, for the first time in nine years—Only to learn that her husband, Chip, had committed suicide. Fast forward three hours later, and Laverne is chugging a Clorox bottle, hunched over the dining table like a Bat Mitzvah gone wrong. The youngest members of the Read-Frensky jumble are the first to find her, unconscious and on the fence of death. Although Laverne eventually recovers enough to talk, she first suffers a scathing condemnation from the only lucid person in the room: Francine. Eye liner cascading, Francine opens fire on her mother's shameless attempt at escape, even commanding Jane to "back off." It is refreshing to see Francine, who is too often used as a volleyball on Sue Ellen's court, taking a stand against the dumpster fire she is constantly s...