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Moana
Lisa

Miserable
old Lisa was no oil painting. She had a face like a
wet week. She would gripe and complain about everything
and drove her poor parents to distraction - what a
miserable
little cow!

In her first appearances Lisa had a black cloud
hanging above
her head all of the time. But this was dropped
as the strip
continued its run.
Oh, yes. And take a look at Lisa's Mum, above,
and compare
her with a later image:
See? - Clinical proof that Lisa's constant moaning
stressed her
out, made her put on weight and brought about
an emotional
change, from upright Mum prepared to take a stance
against her
wayward child, to shrinking softy, too emotionally
scarred to
offer resistance...
Well, maybe not. It's more probable that those first
strips were
drawn prior to a full commission from the Fleetway
bosses.
It might also explain why, in those first strips
the other
characters always referred to our little griper as
"Lisa", but
in later ShSh strips they would call her plain old
"Moana"
instead...
And here's a final piece of trivia: Lisa appeared
in all but
the last issue of ShSh. The strip was actually
dropped from
that final copy, presumably to make room for all
the gumph
detailing the merger with Whoopee! But there's something
rather satisfactory about seeing her cut short
like that....
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