Yes, Les Moore is the avatar we love to hate, but at least give him credit today for not losing his patience and smacking the living shit out of Owen…minus a few points for referring to Owen's choice of "typeface" instead of "font".
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I wouldn't be surprised if a kid has actually turned in a sloppy cut-and-paste job like that–I've heard interesting stories from English teachers. And yet, it still doesn't make Les any less punchable.
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@TheDiva:
Yes, students who cheat are indeed this sloppy. For example:
http://alex.halavais.net/how-to-cheat-good
However, I will partially defend the use of the word "typeface". Les is using the word correctly, where "font" is wrongly (but commonly) used.
http://fontfeed.com/archives/font-or-typeface/
However, hardly any high school teacher – even an English teacher – will speak this way. The only people who care about the word "typeface" are graphic designers. So, today's strip once again exposes how Les's dialog is being written by a "cartoonist", not a "novelist".
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Ha…ha…(zzzzzzzz). I suddenly have a weird longing for basketball. No, not really, but holy cow, this is the absolute definition of "filler". "No child left behind" obviously skipped Westview, where they're all dumber than a pillowcase full of doorknobs. Maybe it's the water, which also would make Monday's strip almost make sense.
And Owen's hat is rapidly becoming my most hated Westview prop, right behind the yellow shirt.
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Owen: "Speaking of Typeface, wasn't he the lamest Spider-Man villain ever? man, what was Jenkins smoking?"
Les: "Oh, I don't know, I think the Big Wheel or the Hypno Hustler were worse…"
And thus Owen saves himself by using his knowledge that Les is such an enormous nerd that he not only knows but PASSIONATELY CARES about stuff like "The Ben Reilly Spider-Man".
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The silhouette of Les's hand in Panel 2 seems to say: "Sit here… and all of this will go away."
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Next week, Sally, who let's just say is a cop who gets the jitters from a terrible firefight and whose husband left her when he thought she was dead, gets a companion cat so she can go out with her boyfriend, who works at the local pasteria.
The following week, Winter Less, a standout boys' basketball player who blew out an elbow during what was looking like a championship run, leads the Rams to states under the tutelage of assistant coach Alan Fairwell.
Sorry to ruin it for you, folks.
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Kaz needs to punch them both… in the typeface.
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OK, then. Owen is as least as stupid as Bull, who's at least as stupid as Crazy Harry, who's at least as stupid as Funky, who's at least as stupid as Tony, etc. We get it, and then some. There are lots of stupid people in Westview. By comparison, Les seems like some sort of delicate genius! I guess that's the point.
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You get the idea that BatDreck has a small handful of index cards where he keeps storylines he has used over the years. (No, he does NOT keep them on a "computer," silly.) Imagine Tommeh sitting there, night after night, pencil in hand. The paper in front of him is blank. "I…. I got nothing." he reaches for the index cards. "Hmmm. Dumb kid in a smelly old hat copies a paper. Les gives a flowery lecture. Ooooooookay… My lunkhead readers will never notice."
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This is like watching the water of semi-literacy slowing spiraling down the drain of stupidity, wasting every ink drop, electron and brain cell in its hideous vortex, the path being cleared by the Drain-O of smug conceit.
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