His near-beatdown at the hands of the bully Wedgeman apparently has triggered PTSD-induced hallucinations in Cody. Or could it be…love? Whatever the case, Batiuk does Summer no favors with this side-by-side comparison with the Amazon Princess. Wonder Woman's curves (those thighs!) only call attention to Summer's androgynous form. And anyway, I thought Summer's comic book analogue was Supergirl.
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When did Wonder Woman start walking like Les Moore? If only Summer was still plagued with the flu. I'd like to see what she sees when she stares at Cody. Let's see… if I take my contacts out and look at Cody, he looks like… well, he still looks like a fuckin' idiot, only blurrier. That may or may not come in handy for Summer if she decides to tolerate this pursuit (assuming she's not already saving herself for Keisha or Dear Old Dad).
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Bushy 80s hair, taut grimace, stick arms, oddly rigid shoulders, thighs that are roughly the same diameter as the waist…either Cody has some weird fetishes or Tom Batiuk just cannot draw an attractive woman to save his soul.
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@ TheDiva: "or Tom Batiuk just cannot draw an attractive woman to save his soul." Well, I've never seen an attractive woman in this strip, so I'm going to have to go with that explanation. This "Wonder Woman" has Earl Campbell thighs and appears to be on the verge of falling over backwards. Oh yeah, he can't draw people walking either.
As for Cody suddenly being attracted to the girl who proved herself manlier than he…well, I guess it's been a long time since TB was in high school. Maybe TB should just stop trying to write stories about high school students. Just a thought.
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Does everyone in school hate Summer as much as we do? She walks the halls alone quite often.
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Cody HAS suffered a lot of shock. He needs a special canine friend.
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We all know BatTom Inc. loves his special little snowflake with the fiery passion of a billion exploding suns, but come on man, Wonder Woman (registered trademark BTW)? Easy there, Tom, remember: she's just a fictional character, OK? The mere thought of Summer in that costume is almost enough to make me renounce my heterosexuality forever. "Goddess"…lol, I have to assume that either Cody's glasses were somehow damaged by Wedgeman or that he doesn't get out a whole lot.
Yesterday Summer appeared to be wearing jeans while she was walking away from Cody (shudder) but today she's wearing her black pants while walking towards him. So is it another day or did she change clothes at some point during the day? Seems unlikely that a girl who wears the EXACT same thing every day would bother with a wardrobe change in the middle of the day, so I'll just chalk it up to the typical total disregard for anything resembling continuity in this piece of shit comic strip.
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"She's a goddess!"
He's a pussy!
BatFart really needs to just stop "writing" about sports and about high school kids. Clearly, he has no idea about how athletes think, or how sports are played. He also is totally clueless about how teens think, speak, and act.
Even the nerdiest boy, unless he's gayer than a purse full of rainbows, knows that being saved from a bully by a girl — ANY girl — is a major disgrace in the high school culture. It's something that will make him an object of widespread ridicule for the rest of his high school career, and will be brought up even at the 40 year reunion. Ranks right up there with being bullied BY a girl. Hell, might even be worse.
Even a smart-mouthed little twinkie like Cody wouldn't see his protector in the hall, sigh, and gush "My HERO!" or anything to that effect. Much more likely he'd be ashamed to look her in the eye than to idolize and have a crush on her.
But that's in the real world, a whopping quarter inch from what goes on in BatYuck's pointy little head.
So, no — we aren't dealing with the issue of bullying this week. We're going to see Cody develop a crush on Slumber and her smelly red sweatshirt. Wedgieboy won't bother Cody any more, unless he wants his ass kicked (off). That's done. He's gone and forgotten.
By the way, if you recall, Cayla herself was quite the softball jockette, whereas Goatee Boy couldn't swing a bat to save his ass, and succeeded only in foul tipping a frickin' SLOW-PITCH SOFTBALL pitch into his own pukey face. So as I said, in Tombutt's world, the women are the athletes and the brave and strong. The guys are helpless, weak, or cowardly. On the other hand, after seeing those recent videos of Tommi and his fat, furry friend, I can see why he might think that.
He should stick to writing about prissy 60-somethings like himself.
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@Epicus — Quite right about the "borrowing" of Wonder Woman. Whoever owns the rights to that character should slap Batom, Inc Worldwide Industries with a Cease and Desist. But not to cease and desist in the use of Wonder Woman's image. To cease and desist talking bullshit.
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@sourbelly, The second to last line of your comment ran on four words too long. It would have read better as this, "Maybe TB should just stop trying to write stories".
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I’d like to see what she sees when she stares at Cody. Let’s see… if I take my contacts out and look at Cody, he looks like…
"Oh my God…my dad has the hots for me!"
…Tom Batiuk just cannot draw an attractive woman to save his soul.
Tom Batiuk can't draw an attractive anything to save his soul.
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TFH sez: Don't feel bad Sarge…I had the same thought.
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Tom Batiuk can’t draw an attractive anything to save his soul.
But as panel 1 demonstrates, he's a master of the "Keep on Truckin" pose.
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So Cody's not gay, just a budding bondage fetishist. That's a relief.
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I see that Toni from Luann is moonlighting in costume in FW.
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You may think this meme is played out, but you have to remember that TB works a year in advance.
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Cody is a teenaged boy, right?
So this brings up several issues:
1) Why would he imagine Summer with a costume design Wonder Woman hasn't had for almost twenty years?
2) Going by the buyers I see in my local comic shop, men who buy Wonder Woman tend to be in their very late forties/early fifties.
3) Other than some brief cameos in the most recent Batman cartoon, her pop culture permutation these days is slightly above zero.
and (as so many others have noted)
4) Being rescued from a bully by a girl would lead to feelings of shame, resentment, and humiliation, NOT CRUSHING.
*sigh*
I give up. Replace this arc with evil Hollywood! With Buddy! Heck, with more #$%^*( Montoni's stuff! Anything but this hideously unrealistic drek.
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I've seen mention of how BatSuck can't draw people walking. I've noticed that too. When he shows walking people from behind, they look like they're going to kick themselves in the butt with their heels. So the "keep on truckin'" Wonder Woman took the walk to the opposite extreme.
Maybe TomButt and his fat little troll "artist" pal need to hire a third asshole to draw this crappy strip.
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Summer would need a serious makeover to look anything like Wonder Woman. Maybe she could use the same stylist who worked Cayla over three times, that certainly improves the odds for success (well, not really, since, in the end, Batiuk still can't draw for shit).
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