Slager
October 1, 2013 at 1:16 am
Huh, I worked on an amateur short film called “Zombie Homecoming”. It wasn’t very good.
Yes, in case you missed yesterday’s strip, they’re doing a zombie homecoming, and Owen finds the eerie theme so enticing that he’s tempted to attend his first homecoming of his five-year high school career. No prizes for guessing who Owen will wind up asking do be his date, but if TB really wanted to explore a same-sex storyline…nah.
Son of Stuck Funky 
Well which one is it, Owen? Yesterday he “couldn’t believe” the school was holding this zombie dance, now today he’s all into it. And aren’t these two guys getting a little old for the annual “oh golly I can’t get a date for the big dance!” arc? And didn’t Owen sort of have a girlfriend not all that long ago? And wasn’t there just a zombie-themed party a few months back….oh, never mind, that was the Dinkle party.
Well, Owen certainly picked the wrong time to experiment with heterosexuality!!!
With J-Rod’s newly found celebrity status as Westview’s football god, all the Westview girls are already lining up to be his first date rape victim.
So Owen seems to be the “Benjamin Buttons” of Westview. Came on the scene back in 09 or 10 as a goofy freshman, and has since regressed to a fat 6th grader.
Maybe it’s from watching too much of “Breaking Bad,” but I have come to associate that kind of woolen cap with the long earmuffs with a meth head.
Do you think TB is even familiar with meth heads? Or what “Breaking Bad” is? He does seem to know how to draw fat twenty year old sixth graders!
Wait a minute… Owen was hanging out with that 35 year old high school Goth chick. He defended her honor…they play video games together at komic korner ….heck she even looks 1/2 dead.already.
35-year-old Goth chick aside, Batiuk still hasn’t twigged to the notion that female geeks are a thing.
Epicus, you’re trying to keep track of bit part non-40+ Westview graduate characters who are introduced and then not mentioned again?
And I think I see a problem here. Killer Queen is probably banned from being played at high school events.
Cowen and Odie as killer queens! That’s stone cold crazy! Even better if Jarod is voted homecoming king and the mean kids dump a bucket of pigs blood on him. Then he burns down Westview with his pyrotechnic powers. But more likely to happen: Les chaperones and makes some snide remarks. Story ends.
A tip, Owen: when asking a woman out, always lead with a notarized statement that you will not, repeat, NOT, wear that moronic headgear at any time, from the moment of her acceptance until she is deposited at her front door at evening’s end. That should give you a snowball’s chance in Hell.
MKay, Batiuk doesn’t know how to draw Owen without the headgear. Seriously, can someone give me an example of a time when he was in class or something and not wearing it?
@Gyre: Owen’s chullo made its debut on October 24, 2011. He has rarely been seen without it since.
–Do you think TB is even familiar with meth heads? Or what “Breaking Bad” is——
It is interesting to note how much more inspirational Walter White is to cancer patients than Lisa ever was.
Though Skyler may have Les beat in the least likeable spouse department.
Owen and Cody are such inconsequential characters. Too bad. I imagine these little brainiac wannabees at a sleepover, wearing panties on their heads and playing with a car battery, a lightening rod and a Barbie doll, trying to make a woman. No thought of romance for these two and it’s a by-God high school themed strip! Probably the closest to action that these two get is thumbing through Wonder Woman comics and staring at Rachel’s chest in Montoni’s. Cody and Owen are like the two guys in Scooby Doo except they don’t have girls, a van or a big dog.
As the old Emo Philips bit goes:
“My classmates would put the make on anything that moved, and I said ‘ why limit yourselves?'”
It is a zombie-themed prom in Westview, after all.
No one will go to the prom with you loser! Not only that, your entire existence will be a misery and you will die alone smelling of pizza. Of course one could say that about almost everybody in FW – except for Les who will be one of the blessed raptured into heaven when Lisa returns to judge us.
You know what would make this “zombie homecoming” the most awesome story in the history of the strip? If a bunch of women attended dressed and made up to look exactly like Lisa.