Grab Bag Week: High School Hijinks Edition continues, and yes, dear reader, today's strip is the source of that oh-so-punchable Les face in this week's banner. That's the expression Les wears when he's doing what he does best: being a smug, superior dick to his students. Owen's right, Les, for once: that was a trick question. Doesn't the fact that nobody, nobody in his class is able to answer this question say more about the teacher than the students?
Category Archives: chullo
To Be or Not to Be: That is the (Trick) Question
Filed under chullo, Cody, Les, Les' yellow shirt, Owen, random students, Westview High School
WHSTV
You'd think that producing Westview High's closed-circuit morning newscast would be a job that a couple of geeks like Cody and Owen could not only do but might actually do pretty well. Naturally, everything goes terribly awry, as typified by the fact that the picture on the TV is upside down. Just more fuel for Les and Linda's disdain of their idiot students.
Never mind that, though. Get a load of who's sitting in the front row: it's Alex, most recently seen dispensing totally worthless relationship advice to lovestruck Owen. Surely there is some retconning going on here: we met Alex at mopey Pete's book signing in December 2007 (see below), and she appeared to be at least high school age five years ago (I was going point to the fact that she sported tattoos even back then, but apparently Ohio law allows minors to get tattoos with parental consent). She's certainly old enough for Pete to attempt hitting on, though we know that that's not the best indicator. Note that her model sheet on the Meet the Cast page is one of the few that does not give an age. How convenient.
Dec. 10, 2007 strip:
Filed under chullo, Cody, Cody and Owen, Les, Les' yellow shirt, Linda, Mallory, Owen, random students, technology, Westview High School
Basket Boink
A couple questions: we know that Bull coaches the girls' basketball team, and is Westview's athletic director. But what class is he teaching here? Have we ever seen him in front of a classroom? Maybe he's been pressed into service to cover for one of the teachers who've been let go? And why is he holding a putter?
Filed under basketball, Bull, chullo, Cody and Owen, Mallory, random students, sports, Westview High School
Go Ask Alex
Everyone say hi to Alex, Westview's only comix fangirl (since Chien vanished) and mopey Pete's biggest admirer, in her first strip appearance in over five years. Owen and his usual sidekick Cody are apparently on the outs since that yearbook photo remark, and anyway, what does Cody know about gurlz? The Chullo'd One, like Pete, just cannot understand why women don't find him appealing. Alex responds to Owen's plight not with empathy but with teasing. Poor Owen is a geek even among geeks.
Filed under bricks, chullo, Komix Korner, Mallory, Owen
Cody-chrome
Apparently Owen is sensitive about his looks, or lack of same, but he gets no "comfort" from his only friend, whose own school photo surely must be at least as hideous as Owen's.
Filed under bricks, chullo, Cody, Cody and Owen, Owen
Fool's Overture
Band class is in session, and no doubt Becky feels energized and inspired after following the Dinkles around the music educators' conference. That energy is short-lived, however, as she must deal with OwenandCody's attempt to waste everyone's valuable class time.
Filed under Becky, chullo, Cody, Cody and Owen, Owen, random students, Westview HS Band
A Lowell in the Action
Today's strip takes us through space, from London to Lowell, Massachusetts, and through time, to the mid-nineteenth century, to finally arrive at a weak "pun-chline" which a year or two ago would have been served up by Cory "Call Me Fishmeal" instead of Cody.
As an aside: a long-running comic to which FW is often (unfavorably) compared explains how "small lapses in continuity and art…only add to the charm" of "artisanal comics" such as Funky Winkerbean…check out today's Doonesbury!
[Edit: Link to today's FW and to Doonesbury were incorrect; I've fixed 'em now]
Filed under bricks, chullo, Cody, Cody and Owen, Les, Owen, random students, Westview High School, writing
The Flamenco Bits
While we often take Batiuk to task for his "tell, don't show" storytelling style, let's give him a pass just this time for not actually depicting Crazy Harry in the throes of his "happy dance". But he gets no points for rehashing yesterday's panel 2 reaction shot in order to milk this gag for another day. As a bonus, we get another rendering of John's lumpy mug and some tortured, redundant sentence structure from Owen. And anono-hoodie is going to be haunted for the rest of his life? Not to worry: as far as this strip's concerned, your life is over and you'll never be seen again.
Filed under chullo, Cody, Cody and Owen, Crazy Harry, Dead Skunk Head, hoodie, John, Komix Korner, Owen
