Soapy emotional rollercoasters

Gasoline Alley, 4/12/24

It's not news exactly that conflict is the engine of good stories, but I have to say that Gasoline Alley feels like it's rediscovering this for the first time in years. When it was just Walt and Sheezix on a quixotic quest to stop Electric Acres from happening? Snoozeville. But now that I know it's turning brother against brother, and fiancé against fianceée? This is it. I'm all in. I hope it devolves very quickly into graphic and gratuitous violence, while Walt wanders around shouting "What'd you say? What'd she say?" until a hurled piece of debris finally puts him out of his misery. It'll be the sort of thing where Rod Serling steps out of the shadows and explains that this world may be more like ours than we care to admit, until he too is killed in mid-sentence by a hurled piece of debris.

Rex Morgan, M.D., 4/12/24