Behold Mount Kilimanjaro! Thankfully Batiuk took a little more time rendering its majesty today than he did earlier this week (see detail, right), and it actually looks quite impressive. Also impressive is the spear that James is toting; probably just something he uses to keep the tourists in line. And Summer, naturally, is representin' in her Westview hoodie. Not shown in today's tableaux are the 46 porters who will schlep all the gear for Les and his merry band. Les' punchline, though lame, is met with appreciative smirks all around: are they smirking with him or at him?
Les is a Wimp
Filed under hoodie, Kilimanjaro, Les, Summer
James' sword is very special. Made by the Elves, you know. The blade glows blue when smug jerks are close. And it's times like that, my lad, when you have to be extra careful.
Extra careful not to get blood on your clothes.
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don't know if i can take much more seeing Les in that f-ing sterotypical hat
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What can you even say at this point? On the plus side, it appears that they're actually going to climb the damn thing fairly soon…finally. Les just refuses to stop with the dismal, annoying, obnoxious wordplay and Summer is still an irritating snot-nosed little know-it-all (what the hell does she know about “technical climbing”, she lives in Ohio). And I don't know what happened in that last panel but damn, that's as “Mopey Pete” as she's EVER looked. Blech.
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oppsy, need to take Les spelling class or maybe use preview
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Once again, I have to do Tom Batiuk's work for him.
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when i seen that pic from other day i thought it was elephant with blanket on eating leaves
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How many extra "Likes" can I give Beckoning Chasm?
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Les: "I think I'm starting to feel a little TRIP-idation!"
*long, awkward silence*
Les: "Didn't any of you get that? Hmmph! I weep for the American education system!"
Summer: "Dad, don't. Just…don't."
Les: "HMPH! I guess there -were- some children left behind!"
*Les waddles off*
Summer: "So! Hello, fellow climbers! Don't mind my dad! See, he won this trip in a raffle designed to save my sports program! I mean, my school's sports program! And my heart told me to follow him here! Well, actually it was my dead mother! Er, a VHS tape of my dead mother. And I didn't…didn't want to work in a pizza par-…*….PLEASE! I know this sounds so stupid and contrived! Please stop looking at me like that! AAAGH, I can feel your eyes, burning into my SOUL!!!"
*Summer bolts away*
James: "…*…well, as you can no doubt tell, the free entertainment on this expedition BITES."
*the other climbers guffaw, the tension broken*
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Summer goes full potato-nose Pete in panel 5. Oof.
BeckoningChasm wins all the points.
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Again with the freakin' Westview hoodie. Soon it's going to need its own tag, like Les' yellow shirt.
TFH sez: There are 51 posts (and counting) in the category "hoodie": http://sonofstuckfunky.com/category/hoodie
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Batiuk made Les perform two lousy examples of wordplay within a single strip? That's actually kind of impressive, in an "America's Got Talent" sort of way.
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Do all native African tour guides carry spears around even when dressed in modern clothes, or does Batiuk just think they do? Because either way is pretty sad.
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Beckoning: it's like you channeled my very thoughts. Too bad James didn't have a pitchfork, he could have run them both through at the same time.
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I read the title of this post, and this keeps going through my head:
Les is a wimp
Summer is a gimp
Funky named his car after the Ice Capades
And oh I don't know why
Oh I don't know why
Perhaps they'll die, oh yeah
Perhaps they'll di-i-ie–
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Beckoning Chasm, I stand in line. We all stand in line.
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"It looks pretty technical to me."
I want someone to explain this punch line to me. Seriously. And said explanation had better be damned funny!
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"Trip-idation"! HAWHAWHAW. Looks like Les took Air Guitar-zan's advice and ate the first three dotted "i's" he came across in the Tarzan book stuffed in his MacDuffle.
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The last panel of Beckoning Chasm's version made me laugh more than, well, ANY FW strip ever. Good show!
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I meant penultimate, but still, great job.
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Getting the idea BatPutz has created this whole arc for the benefit of those who are still undecided about whether Goatee Boy is the most detestable character in the history of comics. At this point, there must be dozens of clergymen and 80 year old women now referring to Les as "a fucking dickface."
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Les obviously is getting his African countries mixed up and thinks he's going to have to ride up the mountain in a Toyota pickup with a machine gun mounted in the bed.
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I think I found a way to make Les more hate-able, but it would probably involve an evil wizard or two. I'm posting this as a link, not an image, because once you've seen it, you can't UN-see it.
http://beckoningchasm.com/graphics/other/sdlm01.gif
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Hilarious. I think I even see a waggling eyebrow.
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