Poor Wedgeman, you hate to see a kid throw away his eighth year of high school over getting involved with illegal laxatives like that. A kid’s fourth senior year should be the highlight of their young life. When will these kids today learn that there’s no chemical solution for a dietary problem? And not only is Wedgeman disappointing himself, but he’s also letting down his teammates who he’s no doubt established quite a rapport with after starting for the Goats since 2005 or so. Their next 43-7 loss just won’t be the same without him.
I love Wedgeman’s surprised expression, as if he had no idea there might be repercussions after being filmed while stealing drugs from that middle-aged woman that hangs around the cafeteria sometimes. And I likewise love Bull’s expression in panel three, as if not allowing Wedgeman to pay-to-play on the worst high school football team in the state is some sort of cruel merciless death blow of pain, shame and regret. Just think…THAT was the toughest punishment Nate and Bull could dream up. And they wonder why these kids are in high school for what seems like seven years at a time. The school’s other bullies must surely be trembling in blind naked fear right now.
Son of Stuck Funky 
And not being allowed to play for the worst high school team in Ohio is a punishment?
That would be like Batiuk saying to us snarkers that he’s going to retire just to spite us.
Next Bull is going to threaten to throw him in the briar patch.
Well, at least Wedgeman had enough dignity not to make up a laughable story about how he was only pretending to harass Alex but really they were good friends. Right, Bull?
Great now, Wedgeman will have even more incentive to go after Owen for snitching on him!
I mean, Seriously Owen. Other than you or Alex, you were like the only who could even have provided proof to the Principal.
Five seasons of The Wire and Breaking Bad have proven to us that if your going to snitch..make sure it’s not obvious who the source of the info is from!!
Oh, well. At least Owen’s chullo will be helpful in soaking up the blood from the knife wound Wedgeman inflicts on his liver.
Seems much more fitting a punishment.
wedgeys face ran into panel line ?
The rest of the team walks by the locker room door and wonders what that yellow liquid is that’s seeping out.
BTW, What is the deal between Alex and Chullo Boy? Are they an item? Will they be an item? Does Tom Batiuk really care about his readers to explain if their an item?
I’m surprised Wedgeman is even academically eligible to play football.
And I wouldn’t be surprised to see Westview win at least one game next year – the one against the team Wedgeman is on after he transfers from Westview.
Look, you’ve got it all wrong! Wedgeman has severe diverticulosis, and can’t afford Metamucil or bran flakes. He can’t get coverage, because it’s a preëxisting condition, and he’s 27.
What I’m saying is that this is a sensitive story about health-care issues facing middle-aged high school seniors who have to steal laxatives from each other.
In one case being on the team is punishment. In another being kicked off the team is punishment. I get it. Everything is a punishment. The FW world view in brief.
This is really theft and not bullying. Given that, the school system has to inform the police, and there will probably be some suspension or detention over a couple weeks, and he would not be allowed to participate in extracurricular activities. The idea that (a) the football coach is responsible for solely responsible for punishing the kid and (b) that the punishment would last for more than a year is ridiculous.
It’s such a lazy sequence.
Bully bullies something from a “girl” and stupid hat slobboy tells the principal about it and the principal sends the football coach to punish the bully in a half-assed informal “oh-by-the-way” manner. And that’s probably going to be it. And we’re supposed to cheer or something. Because we’ve all been bullied by football players and this is supposed to be our triumph over those nasty football players who bullied us. Looking at it that way, it’s funny in how pathetic an attempt it is.
Instead, Bull should have been aghast at the principal’s proposal of suspending Wedgeman “because he’s our best defensive player!” And then Nate realizes it’s true and if the football team suffers the school district will have a harder time convincing the community to pony up when the next school budget comes down. So they don’t do anything to Wedgeman. Instead, the start a whisper campaign against Alex and Slob Hatboy, which Bull coordinates with the football team. They sell drugs! And Slob Hatboy has vandalized school property! And they hang out at that disreputable comic hole above the pizza place, the one owned by that weirdo that spouts off quasi-communist theories while enticing them with apocalyptic video games and pornographic hyper-violent Asian comics.
Pretty soon, they’ll be excoriating Wedgeman for only threatening to beat up Owen or Cody, rather than actually following through with it.
So this bully here will miss all of next year…. his “senior” year?
If so wouldn’t Bull have said you’re off the team forever!
Then he’d be a sophomore right now…. a sophomore as the school bully?
Only in Westview.
Aaaaaand… Epicus Doomus hits it out of the park!