Hmmm, in light of yesterday’s strip, is Les talking about Funky participating in the annual Cancer Fun Run or is he questioning whether Funky will have to urinate during the event (not an invalid question given his obviously very poor condition, I might add)? Wouldn’t surprise (or entertain) me either way, I suppose. Totally generic “Les and Funky jog” strip here: Les being annoying (that headband makes him even more unbearable), Funky bitching (although those miniature ankles of his gotta be hurting), gazebo, bench, Lisa’s tragic death, sweat beads…it touches all the bases even as it strikes out looking. Generic as it gets. Have a happy 4th of July, all!
Son of Stuck Funky 
Seems to be some downtime before the next 2 month long story arc. So far this year we’ve had Beardo get canned from the Post Office and switch to a rewarding career working for Dead Skunk Head selling comic books, Crayola beats Les because he holds a shrine to Dead St. Lisa, Freddie’s stroke, the movie deal about Dead St. Lisa prompts Bio Dad Frankie to fail to make reality show. So what’s next? We haven’t seen PTSD perpetual POW Wally and his therapy dog lately, or Uni-arm. Or maybe Batty will introduce the urinating jogging girl as a new character? Whatever it is it should be exciting.
Les: “Do you Lisa you’ll be able to Lisa in the Lisa’s Legacy Lisa this Lisa?”
Funky: “Um, Les, I know you’re apparently the only other human being I ever interact with ever these days, but do you think we just once, ONCE could have a conversation where it’s taken for granted that I -know- the name of your dead wife and I -know- there’s a run to commemorate her each year?!?”
Les: “….*…but Lisa, my wife who died of cancer Lisa my wife who died, cancer run, Lisa did the Lisa my Lisa Cancer Lisa!”
Funky: “AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!”
“Sorry, Les, but I won’t be able to participate in Lisa’s Cancer Fun Run this year, because… I CAN’T SEE!! I CAN’T SEE!!”
Ah yes, the Lisa’s Legacy Run, otherwise known as the Westview Death March.
I’m trying to remember the last time I saw anybody wearing a headband like that in real life. I’m pretty sure I was in elementary school.
I’m pretty certain they just jogged the Lisa’s Run course, which always ends at the fucking gazebo. So yeah, Les, Funky can probably handle that grueling race, considering that he was your trainer for strolling up Kilimanjaro. Has Wally been promoted from dishwasher yet?
I swear to God, that’s gotta be a least the twentieth time that first panel has appeared. TB loves to recycle.
Les: So, are you going to run in this year’s Lisa Lisa Lisa, you know my deceased wife, Lisa, who died Lisa my dead wife, Lisa Lisa Lisa, run in her annual race this year?
Funky: Yeah…
Les: You know because we’re having a Lisa’s legacy race this year. Lisa lisa lisa. Will you be able to race this year? lisa lisa lisa
Funky: Yep…For the love of God Les, just shut up! Shut up! I already agreed.
When will Funky call the cops to see if Wally is still alive or not?
Am I crazy or does Les’ goatee thing look like it was colored with a marker?
I was about to write that we’re clear of the clunky FW Independence Day strip, but then I saw the bunting. Judging by past years, we should get to the July 4 installment around early October.
Who is this “lisa” that everyone seems to be talking about? She sounds delightful!
Yes, Les’s goatee often looks like someone took a black Sharpie and scribbled a beard on a potato. It’s really apparent in that strip where he changes the rules of his quiz without telling his students, then smirks up a storm.
Usual crap. Thanks, Ohio!
I still haven’t let go of Batiuk working up a story with actual potential (Cory and the missing Lisa funds) and just letting it die. So I’m not getting too excited about this one, either…
All mentions of Lisa’s Legacy Run(tm) are actually funny to me, now that the race has apparently died in real life after the 3rd run in 2011. Maybe folks realized “honoring” the memory of Batiuk’s Mary Sue was kind of… weird?
Oh, please. Like participation is a optional.
Oops
Lisa Lisa Lisa Lisa Lisa Lisa Lisa!!
Cayla?
LISA!!
Sorry, I’m still grossed out by yesterday’s strip – having to take a pee outside in a park while Les and Funky stand resolutely by! The stuff of nightmares, I tell you.
USA!
They didn’t ask questions like that back in 1776! No, they didn’t have time back in 1776. Back in 1776 they were too busy singing songs like…..
“Yankee doodle came to terms,
Writing Martin Buber.
Stick a Fuhrer in our back,
and called it Shicklegruber.”
~ Happy 4th from the Merry Pookster
What the hell is that mark next to Funky’s eye in panel 3? Did the Funkmeister just get himself a Mike Tyson style face tatoo?
Batboy is skating mighty close to Pluggers terri’try, I tells ya, mighty close.
In Japanese manga, that type pf smudge under Funky’s eye indicates that the character is sexually aroused (or so I’ve heard), which puts yesterday’s strip in a new, repulsive light.
Wait… Lisa who?
What a terribly constructed sentence in that first panel. This from a supposed author and English teacher. By the way, judging by the way it’s squeezed into there, who thinks as I do that the “able” was a last minute addition?