The three amigos check in at what looks like the San Diego Marriott Marquis & Marina, already decked out their Comic-Con attire: John’s exchanged his customary black t-shirt with a Batman logo for a black t-shirt with an even bigger Batman logo, Crazy Harry wears a Jedi outfit, and Holly has gotten out the fabric marker to make her own Komix Korner pink t-shirt; all three are sporting their smirkiest smirks.
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Son of Stuck Funky 
Is that Chester the Chiseler in the background?
FYI, the hotel rooms are usually the most expensive part of the trip. Even shared three ways, you’d be looking at a pretty hefty tab.
I wonder how the Funk-Man reacted upon hearing that his wife was traveling to San Diego to blow a fortune on a comic book? With Harry and DSHJ no less? Ahhh, who am I kidding? Just another day for Funky, you lose some, you lose some by more.
Hand-lettered T-shirts? These KK characters have no shame. I like how it specifies that KK is in Westview, Ohio too. I guess that’s in case they get lost or something.
Funky can use this week to rekindle with Cindy
@bigd1992–I hope so, it would be the most exciting thing to happen in this strip in ages.
“Of course you are–this is the San Diego Marriot Marquis which is right next door to the convention center, so it’s a pretty safe bet that the vast majority of people here this weekend are here for Comic-Con. Even if you hadn’t been wearing a rough approximation of “geeky” attire, that would have been a really stupid question.”
Is that Frankie the Desk Clerk?
I imagine a person like Holly, with a skimmed over knowledge of exactly one comic book title that hasn’t been published in years, will find lots of other interesting things to do at Comic-Con.
Business in the Westview Pizza & Comic market is pretty good for these three to trek out to San Diego . HEY… not far from Less in Bollywood.
I wonder how happy she’ll be after all the promised missing getting it just by seconds.
@Epic Doomus, bigd1992
I think that it’d be darkly funny, in a Virginia Woolf / Tennessee Williams kind of way, if while Holly was getting her brains humped out by Harry and John-boy there were cut-ins of Funky getting his brains humped out by Cindy. But that would be actual humor in a comic that thinks that Rawhide Kid headswaps is a kneeslapper, so that’s not happening.
@Merry Pookster
Say, What are the odds of Les attempting to cheer himself up by taking a rental car from Hollywood to San Diego to nerd it up? Google Maps says that it isn’t too bad of a journey, about 4 hours round trip, which exponentially raises the odds of these plotlines meeting. Bonus points if Les brought along a seabag full of Lisa’s Story books and decided to just set up a book signing stall without getting the permission of the convention organizers first — and whining after the mean ol’ MANAJERKS ejected him from the premises.
I mean, it combines all of Batiuk’s favorite things: Les, whining about Hollywood, comical books, Lisa’s Story, and persecution complexes. Now if only he could work in nasty Ohioan pizza in there, too…
@Merry Pookster, whoa hold on a minute there fella. If the sainted and revered Lisa’s story got the Bollywood treatment it might be watchable. I can almost imagine the big dance number with hundreds of extras about Lisa’s cancer returning.
@Howard and Nester, “Now if only he could work in nasty Ohioan pizza in there, too…”
I’m sure they brought a supply with them. After all hot, cold, fresh, or old Montoni’s always taste the same.
DSH John can find like minded people to hang with http://m.ajc.com/news/news/dragon-con-co-founder-pleads-guilty/nb8rN/
I hope Les’ producer is at Comic-Con and options Holly’s story for a TV movie, just to see how infuriated that would make Les.
More infuriated than when he was still unpublished and Creepy Pete was cashing checks signed by Stan Lee? Probably too much to ask, but wouldn’t that be glorious?
There won’t be a Les in Hollywood/The 3 Stooges Do Comic-con crossover, because Les will have inexplicably teleported to Africa to participate in the naming of an ox-cart. He’ll name it “Dungball.”
So Holly couldn’t have Schmuck and Schmucker pick up the comic for her if they found it? She had spend hundreds to go to San Diego with these two South Park wannabes who will undoubtedly be jackin’ it in San Diego before the weekend is out. What I am fearful of, however, is Bats-in-the-Attic drawing the Big Bang Gang at Comic Con in the same grotesque manner he rendered the Seinfeld principals when Les was farting around New York. Ghastly, that was.
With Holly gone, Montoni’s is short-handed. With DSH and Harry gone, the Korner is closed. So how will the average Westviewian survive? Longer waits for pizza and NO access to comic books…the suicide rate is going to spike dramatically throughout the town.
The opening sentence of today’s post got me thinking… One of my favorite Three Amigos quotes works quite well in today’s strip.
@Epicus Doomus: Perhaps that’s the real tragedy Batiuk hinted at in the article: they go home to find an empty town.
Where did Holly get a Comic-Con ticket? Didn’t they all sell out within hours of availability?
Speaking of comics…and Les…I’m surprised the idea of turning Lisa’s story into a graphic novel hasn’t popped into anyone else’s head yet.
I don’t know why, but if Batiuk doesn’t have Gross John and Crazy go full bonkers cosplaying, I’m going to be quite disappointed. He has no trouble showing high school students and teachers get completely into it with full-body costumes each Halloween, (with a new costume each year for everyone) so there’s really no excuse for these two hardcore crazy-ass comic-lovers to go all in. Reveal that Gross John built an entire perfect replica of Christian Bale’s Batman suit which fits him, rather than his lame Batman shirt that he always wears. I wouldn’t even mind Crazy running around in a loincloth cosplaying as his favorite comic character, Tarzan, which would be a lot more in-character than the Luke Skywalker outfit he’s got on today. I mean, he’s already blown it if the excuse is going to be that they can’t afford that shit, because in that case they wouldn’t have been able to afford this trip in the first place. The only reason why he wouldn’t have Gross John geek out completely is because he lacks both the creativity and the desire to bother.
But then, considering that this sequence exists solely to get Holly some stupid comic book and no other reason, Gross John’s appearance is perfunctory at best. Why bother doing anything interesting or unusual? The guy owns his own comic store, what more characterization could we possibly want?