TheDiva
April 12, 2012 at 12:53 am
…Tom Batiuk just cannot draw an attractive woman to save his soul.
O.B. Dan
April 12, 2012 at 8:24 am
Tom Batiuk can’t draw an attractive anything to save his soul.
Haha, it's true! Check out Cody's rival! He has Ed Crankshaft's nose. Of course, he's an Adonis compared to Cody, whose looks on in abject dismay. If I were directing this strip as a movie, panel 3 would be a "dolly zoom" (I had to look up the term), aka the Vertigo effect. I've worked up a crude animation to illustrate.
It's the eyes, I think. Every Tom Batiuk character has those same sunken, half-closed, lifeless eyes that make them look like they're quietly contemplating suicide at every moment of their lives. This is particularly awful when coupled with those half-smirks he's so fond of drawing, as it gives the impression that Westview is a town populated entirely by stroke victims.
….Come to think of it, that's probably exactly what it is.
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has Batshit been near a highschool since forever,girls have booby's already,by girls i don't mean Summer
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Big day in the Funkyverse as we FINALLY discover that Summer actually has a “type” guy (yes, “guy”)-wise: aggressive, square-jawed buzz-cut behemoths with hatchet-faces and multiple nose fractures! And she's sorta “easy” too! Just paw at her hoodie and you're in! Who knew?
It would have been better if Wedgeman was the guy smoothly sidling up to the…uh…”goddess”. Then maybe we'd get a “very serious” prestige arc addressing suicide (murder/suicide, ideally) and…oh, that's right, it's already been covered. My bad. Has he done a "school shooting massacre" arc yet? It'd finally give Cody and Owen something useful to do plus it'd be a good way to thin the herd and eliminate some of these useless peripheral characters, like Cody & Owen.
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Is panel 2 some sort of dream sequence wherein a bespectacled Summer watches herself get hit on by a young Crankshaft?! (Perhaps that should be "nightmare sequence"…)
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Of course, this anonymous behemoth is pawing at Summer's hoodie because that's the only bulbous part of her entire body.
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For me, the most shocking, jarring thing in today's
turdepisode is the smile slumber flashes to Hoodie Toucher Boy. I would have fully expected her to react to being touched by a boy with "EWW! EWW! EWW! EWW!" and a swift kick in the nuts (his). Is this someone she knows, or just some random guy sent over from the Anonowanker Agency just this afternoon? And if this is a guy she knows, why haven't we seen or heard of him before?I think we all know why he's here and what's going on.
As it was recently revealed, the gay prom guys would be new characters. Bet this is one of them. And because he's gay, Summer is cool with him. I mean, God Forbid she get involved with a guy, and vice versa. So this dood, as hunky as he is, is just one of girls. Just like Kameesha, but his mom is probably not as White as Kameesha's.
On the other hand, how do we know for sure this is a guy??BatSuck (or his fat, furry little friend Chuckles) draw females to look like doods. Could just be another ugly chick like Slumber. Just sayin'.
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Summer has never looked uglier than she does in panel 2. Although panel 1 is a close 2nd. And for the love of crap, can't she change out of that red hoodie? Seriously. Has she even showered since her flu-sweaty championship game? As far as I can tell, she just might be the LEAST desirable girl at Westview High. Her stank alone should keep all males at a 10' distance at the very least.
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Awesome work on the dolly effect!
Buck up, Cody. Chinless in panel one isn't going with anyone to the prom, unless that's supposed to be a guy. I can't tell.
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Be grateful, ya little douchewad. Jockboy just spared you mind-scarring humiliation on a few levels.
Now, you and Fuzzy go find some total skank willing to pull a train with you both, and get that need out of your system. You'll never speak to her again, but you'll be forever grateful for what she has given you.
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Or, more specifically, for the burden she has taken from your mental shoulders…
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That P2 is a doozy. Summer's eyes are literally popping out of her head. The left one is standing taller than her petite schnozzola. The elongate smile/smirk adds another dimension to the raging madness that has overtaken her upon encountering an obvious stranger. "What is this creature, and what does he want with me? HmmmmwahhaHaHAHAHA?!?"
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Looks like Cody's "rival" for Slimber's affections is about to pull on the hood of the omnipresent sweatshirt there in panel 2. Maybe he's about to tell her to change her damn clothes once in a while.
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doh – Slimber = Slumber = Summer, TomBat's other wish-fulfillment character.
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Looks like Summer's first date since the Bush administration is going to be with a tapir. That's… better than I thought she could do, actually.
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All I can say is Huh? i'm not sure if the guy with the W.C. Fields style nose is greeting Summer in a shall one say romantic manner or is pointing out that a there is a dead chipmunk in the hood of Summer's hoodie.
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I'm with Beanie Wanker in thinking this is one of the New Gays Students. If so, he has now used up one of his two appearances, with the other one being as a disembodied hand asking for prom tickets. The rest of the month will consist of Summer, Westview's PFLAG-chapter founder, lecturing strawmen on why tolerance and diversity are great things.
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In panel 1, the part of Cody will be portrayed by Bo-Bo, the Monkey Boy. Either that or poorly drawn.
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Raise your hand if you think this new hunky guy will actually be the first half of Tom Batiuk's "unambigously gay duo"?
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…looks like we can rule out the "summer has daddy issues" story arc and further investigate her interactions with Bull (or Bulk).
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Summer's a jock. Jocks date other jocks. Jocks don't date nerds. This dude in panel1 is probably a football player. Batiuk is illustrating Summer's lack of depth, she's as superficial as any other jock.
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Dreamer, you're talking as if Batiuk actually put some thought into this.
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The more I look at him, the more this new guy looks like a blind kid feeling his way through the dark. Or maybe that's just his gimmick for meeting chicks in crowded hallways.
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I don't think there's any doubt that Punt Speedchunk here is one of the new characters for the gay storyline. It's called writing for a reason, you know.
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Cody: 'There's Summer now, this is my chance!"
Ponytail: "Um, why are you talking to me? Do we know each other?!?"
Cody: "Oh, no, I just enjoy narrating my life!"
Ponytail: *backs away slowly*
Cody: "Wh-what?!? My virgin goddess, allowing a male person of the masculine gender who is NOT ME to touch her?!?"
Ponytail: *dialing on her cellphone* "Hey, is this the office? We have a creepy guy saying and doing creepy things! Does he have a weapon? …*…eh, well, he has a zip-tone t-shirt that's radiating waves of ziptone force out into the hallway, permeating the very atmosphere with ziptone! Does that count? It does? Good. Send help, quick!"
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