While TB is clumsy at portraying genuine affection (think of any scene involving Les being romantic toward Cayla), when it comes to smarminess, he's got that down pat. Frankie embraces Darin in panel 3 like a boa wrapping itself around a feral pig. Darin recoils as Frankie's leering mug looms mere inches away from his own, exhaling a vapor of sour coffee, generic cigarettes, and last night's beer.
Category Archives: hatchet face
Pierce a Pizza
Filed under Darin, Frankie, green pitcher, hatchet face, Jessica, Lenny, Montoni's, smirk
It's Astounding
Guess those "Winkerboard" meetings run pretty long. Frankie's finished his "cup a coffee" and split, but not before dropping off his card, which contains no contact information but does include a variation on a gag from Daffy Duck in Hollywood (1938).
Filed under Darin, Frankie, hatchet face, Montoni's, Rachel
(Fair)Good News
What a weird reaction to hearing "We've got some news." Darin and Jess are both smiling, but Ann instantly goes into bad news mode. What was she going to say? "I hope it's not bad news, because what with having to care for your invalid father I'm already on the verge of putting my head in the oven…"
Filed under Ann Fairgood, Darin, hatchet face, Jessica, smirk
Close to the Wedge
bad wolf
April 1, 2013 at 10:22 pm
[I]s that our old friend Wedgeman? It's been so long but one of the few 'new' students from last year (who i assumed was also a senior at the time) may still be around!
Good eye, bad wolf! Even though his hair has the "Superman blue" highlights these days instead of brown, that's gotta be Wedgeman, who last year was fixin' to "kick [Cody's] butt off" before Summer came to his rescue. Now that Sheriff Sum' Mo' has ridden out of town, somebody has to man up and come to the rescue of Wedgeman's victims.
Filed under Alex, chullo, hatchet face, Owen, random students, Wedgeman, Westview High School
Bore Stories
To me, "shop talk" consists of discussing shared experiences and common aspects of one's profession with others in that same profession. This, this is just a bunch of old men, not just pissing and moaning but trying to outdo one another's tale of woe. Similar to, though not one iota as funny as, Monty Python's "Four Yorkshiremen" sketch:
First Yorkshireman: In them days we was glad to have the price of a cup o' tea.
Second Yorkshireman: A cup o' cold tea.
Fourth Yorkshireman: Without milk or sugar.
Third Yorkshireman: Or tea.
First Yorkshireman: In a cracked cup, an' all.
Fourth Yorkshireman: Oh, we never had a cup. We used to have to drink out of a rolled up newspaper…
Filed under Becky, Harriet, Harry Dinkle, hatchet face, Westview HS Band
Grace-Les
Wow! "Leaving our footprints/pawprints/buttprints in the snow of Kilimanjaro!" Tell it to Neil Armstrong and (New Jersey's own!) Buzz Aldrin. The footprints that they left on the moon 43 years ago this month? They're still there. Footprints in the snow of Kilimanjaro (or anywhere else on earth)? Not so permanent. Still, anytime Les is made to look like an even bigger fool, it's all right with us.
Filed under chullo, hatchet face, Kilimanjaro, Les, Summer
(Year)book of Revelation
Nice eyebrows,
Summer.
"This is going nowhere good. File that statement under "grammar constructs an English teacher would never use", and also under "to be said at the beginning of every FW story arc".
Filed under Cayla, hatchet face, hoodie, Les, Les' yellow shirt, porch swing, smirk, Summer
Beating 'Round the Bushka
Epicus Doomus
June 5, 2012 at 12:39 am
Panel two [of Tuesday's strip] = worst Summer drawing ever?
Well, maybe…that is, until today! What the hell happened here? Looks like TB put down the "Funky felt tip" and went for the Sharpie Magnum 44! Summer's crudely rendered mug resembles that of an an Egyptian mummy.
Jeffcoat Wayne
June 7, 2012 at 12:48 am
Bull’s gonna help Les train to climb a 19,000-foot mountain? Riiiiiiight. Bull looks like he can’t even climb into the team bus without breaking a hard sweat. Christ, he looks like he’s about to pop a spleen just climbing out of his minivan.
Meanwhile, fat, lumbering, old Bull Bushka is all of a sudden this powerful, bellowing drill sergeant, and for the sake of a "punchline", Batiuk has un-retconned Les and Bull's high school history. Today's strip just sucks on so many levels.
Filed under Bull, Cayla, hatchet face, Keisha, Summer
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