“There’s one on every climb…” And on this climb, Les is gonna be The One. One of what? James is too polite and professional to say, but Summer understands only too well: Les’ latest attempt at humor turns her panel one smile completely upside down in panel 2. The camp may be primitively drawn, but it certainly doesn’t suggest Bedrock, and anyway, James probably wouldn’t pick up on the Flintstones reference. But Les can’t help but make his lame little joke while making his lame little smug face.
Comment of the Week:
I think Frankie is making the wrong show here. He should be making a show about the weird city of Westview and its slavish devotion to one of its dead residents, and that some are able to still converse with her. He can also show that the economy seems to run on pizza and comic books, and that a torrential downpour always happens during the school’s Battle of the Bands.dougputhoff
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didn’t batshit do this trip in real life,must of been hell far other climbers listening to this douche lame jokes an bragging how hes big time writer published in around 399 newspapers
James is talking about fatalities, right? Oh I really hope he is.
Given Les’ expression both today and yesterday, he’s clearly not insulted at all. He seems to be saying, “Yes, I’ll be the madcap funster on this trip, keeping you amused and enlightened. You can start thanking me now.”
The expressions of James and Summer, however, are clearly of dispirited disgust.
So, I’m wondering…
Is this Batiuk’s way of saying, “Yes, I know Les is a douchebag. I know he’s insufferable. I know meeting him would be like having a full garbage bag break before you can stuff it in the can. Beer cans rolling away, tomatoes splattered, egg shells, everything. I am fully aware of all that.
“But what else have I got? Who can I have as the strip’s star? I can’t use Funky, he’s an even more glum, cynical version of Crankshaft. I can’t use Crazy Harry because I’m not comfortable making jokes about the mentally ill. There’s literally no one else I can have this strip be about since I mistakenly re-tooled it with the Lisa cancer death stuff.
“So yes, Les is a dickbag par excellence (that’s French by the way). But give me some credit: I know he’s a dickbag. I’d like to kick him in the nads myself, and I actually have sketchbooks full of terrible things happening to him. I take those out at night and laugh myself sick. Someday when I’m gone those’ll be published and you’ll see I was right alongside you the whole time.”
Admittedly, that’s a bit too “meta” but it’s a theory that won’t go away.
Yeah, we’ll see how much Goatee Prick is smirking and “joking” once they start hauling ass up the mountain. Only a matter of time before he’s whining and bitching, and begging someone to carry him.
Of course, BatSuck lacks the scrotal surface area to portray America’s Comedy Ambassador that way. He still wants us to see Goatee Boy’s lame quips as amusing “groaners.” Tone deaf much, Tommeh?
(TFH, i think we’re getting a day ahead of ourselves here. )
TFH sez: Yeah, having a spot of trouble with scheduling my posts. Today’s went live prematurely around the same time as Monday’s. Thanks for your patience!
Am I missing something obvious here, or can somebody tell me why there are two blog entries for July 2? The previous one corresponds to the strip in today’s paper, but this one hasn’t appeared in print yet.
TFH sez: (Sigh) please see above.
Kent State Golden Flashes
6-21 (5-11), 5th Mid-American – East
Last Game
Mar 3 at Ohio, L 40-58
Mid-American Conference Tourney (Convocation Center)
KeSt: Jamie Hutcheson 5-7, 16 Pts
Ohio: Tenishia Benson 7-13, 14 Pts
Next Game
No game scheduled.
Team News
Westview standout Summer Moore has been absent from Freshman workouts and will be replaced Keisha Williams next season.
Are there other people on this climb?
This joke only makes sense if a group of people more than three has already been established, Tom!
Sloppy, sloppy, sloppy.
I get it, he’s referring to Summer’s troglodytic posture in panel one, right?
No, wait, that’s just called “drawing”.
Tom Batwig apparently has only two settings for this strip: horrible puns and unfunny half-jokes; and “serious issues.” Both of them suck.
Does Les just not realize he’s coming off as a total prick, or does he know he’s irritating other people and just doesn’t care? I’m not sure which would make me hate him more.
There’s one sacrifice to the pagan gods on every trip, There’s one power bottom on every trip. There’s one Ugly American on every trip. There’s one malaria victim on every trip. There’s one stupid safari hat on every trip. There’s one high school teacher on every trip. There’s one merry widower on every trip.
I have a feeling we’ll all be wanting a Les punching bag by the end of this arc ten times more than we already did.
Should I assume that Les wanted to go for a racist joke by saying “Bed-Stuy and Breakfast”, but chickened out at the last second? Or is the joke that he’s such a douchebag that he thinks any damned thing that falls out of his mouth is automatically witty, charming and hilarious? Oh hell, why am I wasting my life away trying to interpret jokes in any Winkerbean strip?
The First Rule Of FW is: reduce everything to the lamest common denominator. That denominator being: weak gags, brutal puns and awful wordplay.
This is going to be the whole thing, just day after day of Les making moronic, unfunny “observations” and engaging in dopey wordplay in that irritating bearded asshole English teacher way of his. Then there will be maybe two panels featuring Les and Summer hugging and looking at Lisa’s floating head or something (gak) then it’ll be straight home to Montoni’s for MORE stupid jokes and terrible puns. Incredible how the author can take something like a trip to the wilds of Africa and turn it into a stupefying hodgepodge of idiocy like this, but practice does make perfect. All I know is that if I had a premise I needed rendered into something as bland, boring and annoying as possible, I know who I’d hire.
Oh yeah. re: Les…what a dick.
I’m waiting for an upcoming strip to have a Toto band reference to the song “Africa.” Probably not, since that might accident inject some pop culture humor. And we all know Funkyland is immune to that. And by that, I mean humor.
Let’s cut the crap: “Sort of a Bedrock and Breakfast” makes no gawddamned sense on any level. Who the hell mentioned anything about breakfast? And what does a well-appointed tent have to do with The Flintstones? I wouldn’t think this multi-month arc could get any worse, but I know it will.
GAAAAA. I had a terrible nightmare last night, for real. In it, I was reading the entire arc of the Les Goes to Africa strip. But instead of dialogue or text boxes relevant (or at least kind of related), there was no dialogue at all, and all the text boxes were about Lisa’s battle and subsequent death from cancer and how much she meant to Les. This seriously happened, and it’s not funny. It’s terrifying.
Stay classy, Leslie. Nothing could ingratiate you more to the locals than comparing them to Cro-Magnons to their faces.
Mneh, I think I know what to expect from here on out – Idiotic puns from Goatee Boy, Summer looking more like a dood than ever, and not-so-African looking “Africans.” I have just one question: Is that stupid looking hat going to be a permanent, defining aspect of Goatee Boy’s character? After all, Maddie, Crazy, and Owen exist only to carry a hat around. The character doesn’t wear a hat. The hat IS the character. There’s just some humanoid life form underneath it.
@George in Indiana – let’s see if we can help Batiuk out. Hm. First day of climb, Les: “Well, Toto, looks like we’re no longer in Kansas.”
Half way up: “Well, Toto, looks like we’re climbing the charts again.”
James is ready to shoot Les: “Huh, number one with a bullet, eh Toto?”
On the flight back home, the passengers hear about a terrible monsoon (which I know doesn’t happen in Africa but then Batiuk doesn’t know that) which has wiped out James’ entire village. Les: “Huh, I guess the rain’s really down in Africa.”
Amount of {smirks} can vary, so sprinkle to taste.
So, this is what the Big Climb is reduced to? I don’t need to read ahead to know the rest of this story arc sucks.
And thus less becomes the first recruitee into the guides “Heart of Darkness” quest to kill Kurtz.
I read in the news about a Texas student involved in a chimpanzee attack. I feel sorry for him but it made me think. If Less was attached by chimpanzees, dragged inside the fence and had extension damage to his hands and feet would he still have that smug look on his face?
Does anyone else think Summer looks like Mark Trail’s adopted son?[img]http://joshreads.com/images/12/05/i120507marktrail.jpg[/img]
Boy, when people make comments about the horror of Summer’s appearance, it’s not usually because she’s suffering from osteoporosis. Poor kid. She looks like an 80-year-old. Les just didn’t raise her right.