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[hollasa]

Granthony?

"Anthony did not grow up to be handsome. He grew up to look exactly like his twerpy high-school self, but with a receding hairline and a bad moustache. He also looks about twice as old as Liz, inspiring many Anthony detractors on the Internet to refer to him as “Granthony.” (Other popular nicknames: “Blandthony,” “that (bleep) moustache bastard.”) Meanwhile, Liz matured into a smoking hot blonde, and in recent strips is drawn so glammed-up it’s actually getting a little creepy."

From the famous "Why I Hate Anthony" article, by Shaenon K. Garrity.

http://shaenon.livejournal.com/29475.html

[IndianInlaw]

"convincingly drawn hair".

What a great name for a rock band.

[Evil Duckie]

The strip has been in decline for a while. It is very obvious that Lynn Johnson is tying up all the story lines into one very neat pretty package.

The reason I don't like Anthony (great name- one of my boys is named Anthony) is that he seems stuck in Millborough and in the past. There has been little growth in him as a person since high school. Liz on the other hands seems to want to explore the world and is still growing. To pair the two of them up is a step back for both. Liz becomes trapped in her hometown doing what everyone instead of continuing to grow as a person and Anthony is also trapped because he would now have no reason to begin grow because he now has the girl from his childhood dream and he ends there.

Liz is a multidimensional character that is changing over time while Anthony has always been a one-dimensional unchanging character that is where the major problem is.

[JoyinVirginia]

The strip has been in decline for a while. It is very obvious that Lynn Johnson is tying up all the story lines into one very neat pretty package.

The reason I don't like Anthony (great name- one of my boys is named Anthony) is that he seems stuck in Millborough and in the past. There has been little growth in him as a person since high school. Liz on the other hands seems to want to explore the world and is still growing. To pair the two of them up is a step back for both. Liz becomes trapped in her hometown doing what everyone instead of continuing to grow as a person and Anthony is also trapped because he would now have no reason to begin grow because he now has the girl from his childhood dream and he ends there.

Liz is a multidimensional character that is changing over time while Anthony has always been a one-dimensional unchanging character that is where the major problem is.

YES! I agree 100%. Also Anthony KNEW that Therese was a "difficult" personality, he had plenty of warning signs before the marriage, but it was his "plan for his life" to get married at a certain time and to have a child (which Therese was very vocal about she was only having a kid because HE wanted them to have one.) He could have waited for a more compatible person, but NO - he had to do things on his "timetable" it always seemed to me.
Joy in Virginia