Girlz 'N' Games webcomic # 71: Home Alone 2010

I honestly came up with the idea for this Girlz 'N' Games comic last year, and have just been waiting for the right moment to put a cynical 21st Century spin on a classic '80s/early '90s movie. July seemed an optimal time to finally draw this strip, seeing as the midyear blockbuster season is dominated by nostalgia-driven remakes and reimaginings. This year alone we've already seen the release of Clash of the Titans, The A-Team, A Nightmare on Elm Street and The Karate Kid.

Anyway, the idea behind this comic was to take Home Alone, the highest grossing live-action comedy of all time, and, in celebration of the film's 20th anniversary, transplant the characters from 1990 to 2010.


In the original Home Alone, Macaulay Culkin's Kevin McAllister was a sweet, likeable 8 year old, who uses his freedom to gorge himself on ice cream, watch violent videos, play with his brother's BB rifle and jump on the furniture. Two decades later, I imagine Kevin's chosen amusements would be quite different. I see him glued to the couch, playing multiplayer games on Xbox Live until his family returns. Gone is the resourcefulness that 1990s Kevin used in defending his home. Kevin 2010 is fat, lazy, disinterested and, worst of all, an obnoxious, foulmouthed smack talker. And somehow today, sadly, I think this interpretation is more realistic than in John Hughes' beloved comedy.

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