“…this girl that he had been with“? Do these Hollywood clowns realize that that’s no way to talk about Our Lady of Westview? Darin is trying hard, very hard, to keep his cool, but that cocked eyebrow in panel 1 tells me that he’s seconds away from losin’ his shit. And I’ve been trying not to imply that their “partnership” is more than “strictly business,” but Lenny is practically feeling up “his man” in panel 2. Maybe Lenny is Frankie’s “Leon”, and whatever loot that they manage to pry from Darin and Les is going towards gender reassignment surgery, like in Dog Day Afternoon…
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This storyline just keeps getting stupider and stupider….
…and more boring and boring.
You guys: I didn’t get what all the fuss was yesterthread about Lenny turning white. I don’t visit the Comics Kingdom page often (it loads slow even on my work computer). Once the strips for the week appear online, I save them locally and refer to those archived strips when I post. But I just checked the site and indeed, Lenny and Frankie are now the same skin tone. I’d love to know what’s behind this.
Well, I guess when you get down to it, I don’t read a lot of books either. I mean, I read constantly, but there are a many books that I don’t read and avoid on general principle. Lisa’s Story would almost certainly be such a book.
So in Frankie’s version, Jess will play Lisa. Darin will play Frankie.
Act 1: Lisa and Frankie meet. It’s love at first shudder.
Act 2: Lisa begs Frankie to let her see his Big Walnuts. Frankie the gentleman says no.
Act 3: Frankie’s dad – Montegue Capulet Pierce – asks his son WTF? and orders him to quit seeing that scrawny, four-eyed stick from Westview. In their final moments, they give in to passion (shudder) – cue the porn music.
Act 4: Realizing Lisa is knocked up, Frankie is about to go against his dad and do the right thing and marry Lisa. But a tragic car accident puts him in a coma (hey, he’s a Big Walnut guy. They don’t get cancer).
Act 5: After years in a coma, Frankie loses track of Lisa and the little bastard. But he never stops looking. Finally, in a dollar store, he spies a large stack of “Lisa’s Story” paperbacks. He buys one for his friend Lenny, who realizes that this is the Lisa that Frankie cried himself to sleep thinking about lo’ these many years.
And that is the movie that Frankie wants to make.
the horror,someone hasn’t read Lisa story,you can not graduate from westview high without reading
I envy Frankie for not reading.
@ Flappy… But Frankie went to Big Walnut Tech
@Jeffcoat Wayne, so stupid it makes my posting yesterday of “Hard Rock Zombies” look like an intellectual exercise in cinematic existentialism.
@ BC: Boring? I remember the Pizza World arch…you don’t know boring.
@ George: We had a dog named Indiana
If Batwad really wanted to show that Frankie’s not a good guy, he could say something like “Get OFF of me, you faggot!” in the second panel, even if they weren’t into each other. It would liven up this trainwreck, admittedly.
Lord Frankie and Lenny are stupider than they look. Its kinda more than obvious they wanna make a movie. Just because Les is making one.
You know how in FooB Better or Worse, all the characters act like 60+ year old women because the cartoonist can’t create characters that are essentially different from herself? Mikey Patterson – perfect example. In fact NONE of the men in that strip act or talk like men.
For the same reason, BatPutz can’t create real villains. These two guys are just a couple of dorks. To create them, Tomboy just looked in the mirror.
Why did this need to take up the entire strip? That could have been reduced to two panels and avoided that obvious attempt at making Frank more obviously a bad guy by saying he doesn’t read a lot.
In re. Hackett: Where exactly do you get your scans?
TFH sez: There’s a super-secret formula for parsing the image URL from the Comics Kingdom pages. There’s one character in the URL string that increments by one each day.
Frankie didn’t even read the book. He’s here only because his Baldywood friend told him to show up. So. Clear away, people, nothing to see or car about here! Other than the bad-guy dad trying to cash in on…what, exactly?
I never saw the Pizza World arc, but I’ve been reading this dreck for a few months, so boring really isn’t a surprise…well, I take that back. It is “surprising” how Tom Batiuk can take something which shows a glimmer of promise and wring its neck until it’s just as dead as every other plotline in this strip. Les going to Kilimanjaro, the wedding, Cory joining the army–all those things had the potential to be interesting, and each was done in the least interesting manner possible. It’s like Tom Batiuk has some kind of mutant superpower, like the X-Men. His name could be The Crashing Bore, except the word “Crashing” has too much action in it.
In the case of this arc, we know it’s all building up to Darin saying something like, “Don’t you talk about my mommy, you you, you!” Just get it over with, Batiuk.
While I have no idea what the deal is with “black ‘n white Lenny” and his chameleon-like ability to shade-shift, but I do know he’s rapidly getting on Boy Lisa’s nerves. Mine, too. As is Frankie The Disappointment. There’s no need to point that out re: Boy Lisa and the dimwit, they’re regular characters so it goes without saying.
Duh. Of COURSE you’d realize it was the same Lisa after reading the cancer book, as it apparently contains a complete and comprehensive overview of Darin and his bio-mom’s entire 45 minute relationship, including complete details of his conception, birth and his adoptive parents’ identities. As any quality cancer book should, I might add.
Wow! Paul Shaffer is really into Zippy the Pinhead!
What’s going on around here? I have to keep re-entering my user name and email, while scumbag spammers get to join up and blatantly post ads.
Story gets stupider and stupider…blog gets, well, different…
In re. OB Dan, there are programs designed to do that for spammers.
On the Comics King site, Lennerp is white again today.
“I don’t read a lot of books published by an obscure Midwestern university press about someone whose only notable aspect was that she died from a very common form of cancer. Not everybody hangs out in their dreary hometown their entire lives haunted by the dead, you know.”
Still talking about a one night stand, in the back of a van, many years later? Frankie, your only time getting laid?
You know this plotline is starting to become reminiscent to the story of how “Manos: The Hands of Fate” got created. With Frankie being the Hal Warren of this tale. If thats true then perhaps these characters really are going to suffer a terrible fate at the hands of Frankie The Rapist.
This is so obvious, now. Frankie and Lenny want to do a “Lisa’s Story” spoof for YouTube. They’ll call it; “Lisa’s Gory”, and it will be a “Red Dawn”, meets “28 Days Later”, meets “PS I Love You”, meets “Breakfast Club”, flick where an experimental cancer treatment goes horribly wrong, and turns terminal patients into flesh eating zombies.
Fortunately, a group of plucky youngsters will be able to hole up in a Pizzaria, (Montoni’s, natch, because there aren’t any Pizza joints in LA with that kind of atmosphere), where they’ll talk about their personal problems until the zombies’ cancer metastasizes to the point their muscles dissolve and they can no longer maraud.
Man, you could cut a roast on
Lyle Lovett’sFrankie’s face there in panel 1. And, is that Tintin’s dog Snowy guest-starring as Darin?[img]http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9PS-o8Fp0vo/SWfVvzikjHI/AAAAAAAAAHw/84QwiI0b3mE/s320/2007-05-16-tintin.jpg[/img]
I think I’m one of the few here who gets this strip in print, and I can confirm that Lenny is decidedly black in the strips that have been running in the newspapers.
I’m stuck on imagining Frankie telling Lenny all about his past encounter(s). In a prison cell? At a Guys’ Night, while drinking Cosmos and watching a chick flick?
I was hoping (but not betting on it, as it would never happen) that Batiuk had the balls to retcon Lisa into not quite the saint he made her out to be. It’s been about five real-world years since Lisa died, so Batiuk might take some liberties.
Señor Tortilla: What he’ll actually do is retcon her into even way MORE of a saintly deity. In fact, it’s the only reason this stupid arc is happening. Now I seriously doubt he’ll retcon her fling with Frankie into “rape” per se, but he definitely will re-tell the story with a very hefty dose of “peer pressure” and possibly alcohol as well. That “mark” on Lisa’s sterling repuation has been bugging BatBoy since forever and now that he’s given himself a chance to alter it I think he’ll pull out the cornball stops.
Senor Tort: Only Frankie has “taken liberties” with Lisa, nudge nudge, wink wink.
So Lisa von Shtupp is really Lisa Moore?!? godDAMN!
there are a many books that I don’t read and avoid on general principle
Dear Lord, do I need a proofreader.
In re. Hackett. Wait, so the pages aren’t automatically with Lenny white? What in hell is going on?
That’s Batyuck for ya. He’s King Midas in Reverse, to borrow a song title from The Hollies. He can take anything interesting and turn it into crap.
I saw a Omaha paper….and Lenny is a Negro
I saw a Omaha paper….and Lenny is a Negro
Yes, Lenny Gro.
I’m not a genius, but I do have a three digit IQ, I’m pretty sure. Still can’t think of a single scenario where Frankiebeans stands to make money off of the Lisa’s Story book OR “movie.” Can’t wait to see where Batwit thinks he can take this, but it already has jiveass written all over it.
Yep he is dumber than he looks. Last time I checked the book was about her battle with breast cancer. Why would anyone wanna watch a reality story about the guy that knocked her up? I could get it about like a doctor who lives with seeing realities of it or husbands of wives who battle with cancer. But Frankie had nothing to do with Lisa, he wasn’t holding her hand when she went through chemo.