Blond Moments

Holly = fat, frumpy and blonde with misshapen head. Donna = fat, frumpy and blonde with HORRIBLY misshapen head. Got it.
–Epicus Doomus

Throw another shrimp on the barbie ’cause here comes another middle-aged blonde woman! The fact Mindy rhymes with Cindy and she’s Cindy– err, Cynthia Summers’s doppelganger isn’t helping matters in today’s strip. Living outside of Westview seems to have some advantages though, you don’t randomly wake up every six or seven years to find you’ve suddenly aged a decade overnight.

I don’t want to peek ahead, but I feel like I’m Nostradamus or something with what is about to go down. The thing is, Batty Tom has already done the Hey, stranger, your son is in the military? Have my $900 comic for a dollar.” schtick. I assume the more issues she gets the ones left over are scarcer and worth more money.

Not to coin nerd out here, but it’d be like finding out a friend of your coworker’s nephew from out-of-town is working on a penny collection so you offer to sell him a 1877 Indian Head Cent in XF condition for one cent because you think kids that still collect pennies are cute.

11 thoughts on “Blond Moments”

  1. Mindy is Crankshaft’s granddaughter, right? She seems to have graduated from “teen model” to “vaguely 20-30 something model” in the interim between the strips.

  2. I’m going to mostly ignore the idiotic “Crankshaft” cross-over cameo. Nice try, Tom, but hell itself will have an NHL franchise before I wade into the Crankyverse, sorry. F*ck Pm and f*ck Jff and f*ck the bus driver too.

    The two “geeks” she’s dealt with so far couldn’t possibly have been any nicer about it, particularly in light of the fact that she’s exerted pretty much no effort at all (and spent no money either) during her “quest”, instead relying on Skunky to tell her where to go and what to do. Yet there she is, still bemoaning the “geek” culture she’s being forced to endure, like it’s some weird cult. But hey, it’s a big part of the premise and when you have no story you gotta repeat that premise as much as possible just to remind the readers that there’s supposed to be a point to these unknown people and their idiotic babbling. Last week he avoided “writing” a story about comic book collecting by trotting out a dead & buried old gag, this week he’s throwing “Crankshaft” into the mix…just so shameless and lazy. You can almost imagine the self-satisfied Les-like smirk on his face when he completed this piece of self-indulgent tripe.

  3. I think I’ve figured out what is going on with TB and this comic book arc. He’s never gotten over being rejected from the comic book industry and at long last he is taking his revenge. He’s doing this by making sure no one will ever want to be in the same room as a comic book, much less read one. Never thought I’d say this, but well played TB.

  5. Hopefully “Mindy” will explain that these comics are from her dead father’s collection….her father died in a fiery school buss accident along with her grandfather

  6. This whole “Your son is in the military? OMG have this comic for $1!” shtick would work a lot better if the son in question wasn’t Rotten-To-The-Cory Winkerbean.

  9. I had forgotten, Mooch did call back… it resulted in screaming. Again, too bad.
    The results are telling. Mooch has apparently escaped Westview while Mindy is still in Centerville and apparently still lives with her parents. Wait… which one is named “Mooch” again?

  11. Getting tired of the “Time Warp” Tom?
    We are.
    Mooch, Mindy and Durwood are all the same age?
    But Crankshaft is still living…..What age is Jeff now…
    Has Sum-more ever played a game at KSU.?
    Did Les ever get any cash from evil Bollywood?
    *** I hear that Wes Anderson is interested.
    Glad to see that Wally was given one panel to show he still has PTSD and hasn’t shown up for work or school in 9 months.

    I think it’s time for the nuclear option.
    TGF O.B.Dan

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