20 thoughts on “Zombies, Come Home”

  1. Shouldn’t Cody be speaking in panel one, then Owen in two and three? Is this a screw-up or just typical Batominc indifference? I guess all that Jarod action over the last two weeks really wore him out.

  2. Forget the people who come back for Homecoming. Have you seen the ones who come back to join the faculty? Ba-da-boom!

  3. What the hell is that writing on that rock? Spring Roll? And i do, mean writing, since I don’t think anyone sprays graffiti in cursive.

  4. Actually, no. I mean, I know they call it “homecoming” because all the alumni are supposed to come back, but I don’t know anyone who actually bothered with it. Of course, I’ve never lived anyplace as patjetic as Westview.

  7. Around O.B. Land, people do come to the homecomings – but it’s just the cool kids who went to cool college, often under cool circumstances (i.e. football scholarship), and who were coming home anyway, as it is always scheduled for Thanksgiving weekend. The big Thanksgiving game is usually a one-time-only thing, unless you have family there, or ,by some stroke of bad social luck, you have a high school girlfriend who expects you to go with her. Same thing applies to the high school-sponsored homecoming dance, though there is the saving grace of knowing the king and queen titles will go to whoever is you a year later.

    Fortunately, if you are in the service, and are between assignments and have only so much time for sex with your soon-to-be-former-girlfriend (usually her doing) and killing beers with the boys, you are excused from that other crap.

  8. A sense of foreboding settles over the small town. The residents scurry homeward and dread the night. The dead are coming home! Death, that slender tuxedo-bedecked gentlemen in the porcelain mask, is coming to call, with his servant Chat Noir riding on his coattails. For whom does the bell toll? Hopefully for thee, Les, not me.

  9. Stupid Hat Kid just hopes Summer will come back, to save him from getting beaten up by the Class of ’43.

  10. You know I meant Le Chat Bleu, not Le Chat Noir. Totally skanked that. Anyway its about time for that crazy feline to emerge from the cobwebs of Les’s mind.

  11. “Hey, it’s that kid with the stupid hat again.”
    “At least it’s finally cold enough to wear that hat.”
    “It’s not cold enough in Antarctica to wear that hat…”
    “Someone painted ‘Seniors Rool’ on that boulder the school district was to cheap to have removed? What is this, 1992?”
    “If it was 1992, they would have painted “SeniorZ Rool!’, and it wasn’t that the school district was too cheap, the boulder-removal levy failed.”
    “Whatever. I wouldn’t really care except that it’s the last thing I’m gonna see before I hit the ground, get raked into a pile, and burned to death in an old chemical storage drum.”
    “Actually, I think the lawn-raking levy failed too…”

    OK, so after a brief flight of imagination, I can see why TB’s once talkative falling leaves no longer speak.

  12. No preview for today? That’s all right, it’s pretty much the same thing as Monday – Dear Author is finally admitting that Westview is populated by zombies, walking dead people who can’t find the energy to leave their dead town.

  14. Thirty days till Halloween, and I’m already tired of Zombies! And I’m tired of Halloween! I wish Roberta Blackburn would make a move to ban the Homecoming Dance, and then make a move to ban Halloween. I’d be with her 100%.

  15. It’s all wrong. In panel one, Owen expresses his disbelief re: the zombie dance. Then Cody explains that actually it “makes a lot of sense”. Then Owen inexplicably explains WHY it “makes a lot of sense” even though he just expressed disbelief. Huh? Why doesn’t Cody deliver the “punchline” here, which would make sense seeing how he was the one about to explain it in panel two. I know, I know…who cares, but shit like this really bugs me.

  16. Epicus, I pointed that out on NJ. Of course one of Batiuk’s apologists got angry that I would criticize him when I’m not a cartoonist. My favorite thing about those people is that they can’t actually provide any argument for Batiuk being good, all they can do is say that the people who criticize him are bad.

    Will say that even if Batiuk didn’t realize it, he actually got some realistic plot today. It would be just like a small town school to try to get behind a fad popular among teens without realizing that by now most people are getting tired of zombie-themed ideas.

  17. Batominc has forgotten how to draw Owen & Cody. What happened to Cody’s head in panel 2? What happened to his feet? By panel 3, he has sprouted an enormous beer gut.

    Panel 2 may be my favorite panel ever. Not only do we have the most distorted Cody ever, we also get to enjoy a young woman with a plastic helmet instead of hair, and the worst graffiti on Earth. “Spnion RooL” indeed! It even features the first correctly drawn L in the strip’s history.

     

  19. OT, from a Yahoo story about dogs:

    “But Golden [Retrievers] have had more than their share of breed-related health issues, the most common and most tragic is cancer. … Many of us veterinarians not-so-secretly call this breed “The Cancer Retriever,” …”

    Wally’s dog Buddy is a Golden isn’t he? Have I stumbled upon a future arc?

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