Speaking of painful digging into the past, I suspect a bit of revisionist history…as it would appear that Jessica was the popular cheerleader and not at all a member of the AV club.
Turns out our little Darling was both! I guess she gets the audiovisual gene from her Mom, Jan Murdoch Darling, the famous television producer whom we never met. I’m resorting to the bulleted list format to get through everything going on in today’s strip.
- Another tribute to another obscure comic. How ironic is that banner ALWAYS ALL NEW STORIES ? Nothing says “ALL NEW” like cutting and pasting your character’s head onto a half-century-old comic book cover. And would it have killed Batiuk to maybe Photoshop a suggestion of boobs onto that figure in the red spacesuit?
- The Three Faces of Jessica:
- Jessica’s disembodied head at the “top” of the panel has been lifted from the “model sheet” on the FW site’s Meet the Cast page.
- On the comic book cover: “she” is apparently diving to avoid raygun fire…why the hell is she smiling?
- In the inset, TB finally manages to make her look attractive…meanwhile Summer needs an eyebrow waxing, and Les resembles a Muppet with cleft palate.
- A little demeaning to cheerleaders, no? I guess unless a girl plays “real” sports, she’s not to be taken seriously.
Happy Easter everybody! — TFH
Son of Stuck Funky 
