Pushed so hard? Is there some other comic strip Les is starring in that I’m not aware of that’s being referenced to in today’s strip? For the past three years he’s sat down at his computer a handful of times and bitched about no one understanding his genius but done very little actual writing. From his MS Word’s point of view Les has been in and out of a coma for the last couple of years.
3 years = 1095 days
1 page of script = 1 minute of screen time. (old rule of thumb)
With that in mind, Les was hunting and pecking out a paragraph a day, if that. Some inspiration Saint Lisa was!
The cat should have walked across the keyboard. It would have probably had better results.
Son of Stuck Funky 
This means that when he’s getting all those messages from Anne about how her friends in Burbank are waiting on him to get the lead out, he doesn’t realize it’s HOLLYWOOD!!!! because she uses words like Burbank and Century City.
Ah, well. I guess I shouldn’t sourpuss too much. At least we ain’t getting a crappy flashback about Les’s mom draining his precious, precious manjuice like he’s Jfffff.
Les, throw that stupid cat off the cliff. Then follow it.
I think Depression Cat isn’t saying Les has been working too hard; she’s saying that demanding to write the first draft of the script was a bad idea and probably made a bad impression with the people at The Misery Porn Channel. Which is, I think we can all agree, the single smartest thing anyone in this strip has ever said.
Why would the production company be mad at Les? Being that Les wrote the book, it’s logical that the first script should come from him so they at least have a baseline to work with in the re-writes. Even more so, since he LIVED through the damn thing, he would have more insight into Lisa than any scriptwriter would!!!
If Le Chat Noir et Blanc is making it his mission to depress people, Westview was a poor choice of venue. The people are already born depressed.
Panel 2 contains the most rhetorical question asked in history.
If TB pulled a Snuffleupagus and Le Chat Bleu turned out to not be one of Les’ hallucinations, think about how hard its job would be, finding people in Westview who are not already depressed.
This is a thing now in FW. This isn’t some one-off idea. This is an actual extended story for the week.
Who in hell is going to understand this? Do you know what readers are doing? They are looking at this and wondering if Les has lost it.
I just realized something–there are no pets in Westview other than Wally’s Wonderdog. And Les’s hallucinatory cat.
@TheDiva: yes, but the cat is not a “she”—it’s «le chat bleu». If it were female, she’d be called «la chatte bleue». So it’s a Tom cat—hence a representation of Batominc’s own insecurity.
In consequence thereof, can there be any doubt that the blue cat (which of course is inexplicably drawn as a bicolor black/white cat—“blue” being a term of art in animal husbandry for a sort of steel-gray hue) will have its comeuppance, proving Les “I’m really Tom B.” Moore is a snowflake of supreme specialness and auctorial preciousness? Lisa’s Story will be the first TV movie inexplicably to win the Pulitzer, an Oscar, a Tony, an Obie—well all of these.
Just when you think Les couldn’t possibly get more annoying, stupid or whiny along comes another day to prove you wrong. His irritating self-indulgent simpering makes every other FW character’s irritating self-indulgent simpering seem hilarious in comparison. I really have no idea what he and his imaginary feline friend are babbling about but I do know that Les has been complaining about every single thing associated with “Lisa’s Story” since the day he sat down and started writing it. He just never stops bitching, it’s incessant.
Hollywood is probably having casting problems. “Okay, who can we possibly get to play The Most Hated Man in Comics?”
My take is that the cat is saying ‘if you weren’t such a self impressed jagov thisi would not be a problem.” Another shame eruption from the Author.
And we’re supposed to not like this cat why?
I don’t why we’re not supposed to love the cat. Perhaps the cat is Les’s good side trying to break through all the self-defeating bullshit.
@beckoningchasm, Dick Cheney. Nah, he still isn’t as despicable as Les.
No one is more despicable than Les. He is the worst fictional character ever.