If I were a cartoonist, and if I had gone to great lengths to create an author avatar? I would never allow my author avatar to be Such. A. Douche. There’s a difference between “self-effacing” and “self-immolating”. Les’ pose in panel 1 deserves a kick in the nuts. Summer, who has been looking weird all week, at least has an excuse in today’s panel 3: she’s about to explode in laughter at Emily’s–I mean Les’ utter douchiness.