Well. The tree managed to hang onto its beautiful golden canopy of leaves until the big day. And Mrs. Les Moore hangs on to her groom, the better to flash that band o' gold (remember Les still has his from last time). The guests (where is Cayla's family?) are all choked up, but Jim goes even further by inexplicably declaring this union to be the best thing that ever happened to him.
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Crayola calls having all that cosmetic surgery to get married to a doofus, self-centered, egotistic, self absorbed, fixated on his dead wife, pizza eating Avatar of a megalomaniac the best thing that ever happened in her life?.
Please tie your tubes girl.
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TFH: Re: haven't seen this one yet….lucky you, because it's a real slab of shit. At first glance I was wondering what the hell Klabichnik was talking about, but it turns out that TB was just too lazy to put the dialog bubble arrow in the right place. Once again Cayla "The Lip-Less Wonder" Moore (ugh) demonstrates her potentially serious problem with depression, which makes me wonder how she'll handle it when she realizes that marrying Beardo was the HIGH point of her life. What a bunch of maudlin, faux-sentimental crapola. Once again TB lowers the bar to a point previously thought to be impossible.
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I can't wait until I wake up and find that it was all a dream and FW isn't really the Bat-wipe of a cartoon that we think it is.
Oh, wait. I AM awake…
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how is this high point in Mark Twains life ?don't get it
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OK, then. So is that Klablichniklip talking, or is it that spray-tanned teenager that Leslie is hugging?
Regardless, can we just pretend that this whole "wedding" never really happened? Please?
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Explains why your standards are so low, whitey.
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The sickness spreads. I said nice things about a beardless Les yesterday, and now I am punished. I am surrounded by leaking pus, which, by the way, is better than being held by Les. (Not that I have any experience with the latter, nor do I wish any first hand experience.)
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Cayla declares her utter happiness, and Les says nothing. Just like when she first declared her love for him. Memo to Batom, Inc.: you are not depicting a healthy relationship here! Your author avatar is a sociopath!
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Today's strip makes me think Louis Farrakhan might be right.
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To TB's credit, not one image of Lisa all week. And today's strip would actually be kind of sweet — except that I'd really hope that having a daughter would still be the "best thing that ever happened to me moment". Poor Keisha.
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Have to repeat this:
"I love you Les."
"I love me too."
So having her daughter was what? Something she did for a girl scout merit badge?
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Where did Keisha come from, by the way? Was Crayola married before, divorced, widowed, or did she just have too much to drink with a stranger one night? I'll swear that backstory has never been explored in this strip. The point is, I agree with those who have said that Keisha ought to be the "best thing that ever happened" to her. I can only see a wedding trumping that if it was to Keisha's father and they were still together all these years. If Les said marrying Crayola was the "best thing that ever happened" to him, we all know he'd be lying. Of course, he won't say it because then Ghost Lisa will become very angry and wreck havoc on Westview, and Batiuk isn't competent enough to draw that except through smirky reaction shots. Anyway, Ghost Lisa didn't show up, but the soul of Original Cayla is sitting right there behind Tony, thinking, "Yeahhhhh, it was totally worth compromising my integrity to bag this douche for my very own." I get the feeling Batiuk is going to up the ante with the biggest cliche in the book and actually have these two create a baby, because he's not through saying "Fuck you!" to his readers yet.
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"This is the best thing that could have happened to me, since there are no brothas, and nobody closer to my own age in town. And everyone ELSE is a fat load like Funky or Bull, or a comic book perv like John or Pete. So by process of elimination…"
So today, Crayola not only looks white, she looks 19 years old. It's called "drawing," Swishy Tom. Take an art class.
Hey, maybe Crayola and GoateeBoy have this wonderfully tender, loving, intimate, nurturing relationship. It's just that BattyBoy never shows it. Only shows Les punning and smirking and Crayola moping or shooting him dirty looks. Hey, what do WE know? Nah, I doubt it.
Cayla's relatives? Already at the Wankerville city limits — Women crying and men punching the dashboard. Couldn't take another second seeing their race-changed, lobotomized relative marrying this goateed nitwit in this dysfunctional pizza town.
No Lisa YET. Also no Moore relatives.
This is like Cinderella in The Bizarro World.
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"My first marriage, the birth of my daughter, watching said daughter grow into a young woman, graduate high school, and get a college scholarship, my entire professional career, and a lifetime of experiences with friends and family all let me down–but chaining myself to a smug self-absorbed asshat who can't let go of his first wife? Jackpot, baby!"
Again, I say: Fuck you, Batiuk. Fuck. You.
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"Oh, Leslie- I mean LesTER, sorry master, humiliating myself waiting for you to make a commitment for four years while you strung along Station Wagon Susie and talked to your dead wife in your head instead of me every time you had a problem has been the best thing that ever happened to me."
Oh well, on the bright side, this is the seventh day in a row where Les hasn't said anything.
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Les hasn't said anything because he's been listening to those Screaming Lisa Voices In His Head berate him for tossing her aside in favor of some dopey-mopey school secretary who has to iron her hair every two hours.
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Where to begin…first of all, great snarking today. Many laugh out louders both here and at Comics Kingdom. Great stuff. Makes it hard to explain to the wife what I'm laughing at though.
The Klabichnik speech bubble is just typical of BatHack, on a one panel strip he still can't get it right. Kudos to those who snarked on this detail weeks ago, today was your payoff.
Anyone who previously said Less looked punchable in prior strips needs to take it back because he has NEVER looked more punchable than today. His smug look just screams "you have NO IDEA how lucky you are, babe. Just wait 'till Mr. Toads wild ride tonight! It just may be the best 30 seconds of your life". Seriously, comic cancer claimed the wrong victim, BatHack.
Finally, I can't believe no one has commented on Saint Summer's wardrobe change. The ceremony has been over what, like 10 minutes (just long enough for the unpaid help to schlep their chairs into the tent) and she has already changed clothes. Or is that not Summer?
Either way, Bathack has outdone himself again this week. Just when you think FW has hit rock bottom, he grabs a shovel and starts digging.
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I wish i could have pasted in a pic of Keisha crying in the corner.
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This is truly a murdering of Cayla's character to please the Author Avatar, and it just makes me retch.
At least no Ghost Lisa, I can take solace in that.
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Bleh. The sad thing is, if you only see today's strip, it's actually pretty sweet. Looks like the conclusion to an adorable romance. I could show it to my girlfriends and they'd "aaawwww". But if you have the context, it's sickening. Ol' Bats has no idea how relationships work, does he?
I know I shouldn't be shocked by this, but I'm kind of a newcomer in the comics community.
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What a load of crap this whole week has been, and it gets topped off by Cayla saying the most insipid thing possible. Of course, Less says nothing, because, of course, he knows he the best thing that can happen to anyone! He's a pure textbook case of Narcissistic Personality Disorder, which is defined as:
"Narcissistic personality disorder is a condition in which people have an inflated sense of self-importance and an extreme preoccupation with themselves."
Is there any better description of Less; and to think, The Doormat buys right into it. Less is one sick dude.
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I'm always amazed how the entire town just absolutely loves the most snide, smug, obnoxious and unfunny guy in Westview. In real life he'd be as despised as he is here.
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(Another well-past the sell date response, but whatever)
Keep in mind what precisely Cayla is saying in this panel. She isn't simply saying that this was the best thing that ever happened to her. Lord knows that'd be bad enough but whatever, she might have gotten swept up in the moment and blurted that out without thinking about it too much. It's still vomit-worthy, but not deranged.
Instead, she's saying that she *never* had a moment in her life that she cherished until her wedding to Les. People keep mentioning all the things she might have considered to be her greatest day ever, and that's fine, but Cayla is in fact saying that she didn't value any of them. It's not "The birth of my daughter was wonderful, but not this wonderful." It's "I don't consider the birth of my daughter to be a wonderful moment." And extend that to every single accomplishment or incident in her life. It's horrifying. And this is precisely what Batiuk intended to write.
What the hell is wrong with him?
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