Running? Gag

Hey, the thing actually ended!

Poor Skyler. As evidenced in today’s strip, you’re never too young to be drug kicking and screaming into the Westview life of lowered expectations and disappointment.

Don’t worry, kid, as you get older, your face will elongate into a shovel-shape like your dad’s and you won’t look like a Peanut’s character so much. That is, if Batuik doesn’t decide to do a very special weeklong arc about SIDS, or, more likely, just completely write you out of the comic entirely.

14 thoughts on “Running? Gag”

  2. It makes sense that Les thinks that coasting through something via the suffering of others is something that deserves to be rewarded.

  3. I actually laughed out loud at this one. Les has Lisa’s Legacy Memorial Cancer Fun Run medals made up for the race and everyone gets one? Every single person in the background has one. Were there medals awarded for things like awful wordplay, droning complaints and unfunny gags about getting old? Because then it’d make sense. I hope the Sunday strip ends with a Gazebo Park trash bin full of discarded medals.

    And check out Boy Boy Lisa. The kid looks absolutely terrified and who can blame him? He just endured the dullest afternoon of his young life and now he has a sweaty Les Moore inches from his face, hanging some sort of medal honoring a dead woman around his neck. Poor kid, but just wait until he can actually understand what they’re all babbling about. His nightmare has just begun.

  4. You just know the medals have Lisa’s face on them. With the Latin for “Too Beautiful for this World” on it. And that Les will drop by the house everyone he gives a medal to and get real pissed when they don’t have it hanging over the mantel.

  5. Skylar (horrible name) won’t be given a speaking role until he’s 16 or so. I can’t recall a single child in the Funkyverse that has had a line of dialogue.

  6. Is a ‘one year old and under category’ for a breast cancer run even a thing? He’s probably the only baby there!

  7. What bothers me is that while we’re getting a face-full of “all have won and all shall have prizes,” real life is being lived elsewhere by people who haven’t been beaten down into settling for Les.

  8. Skyler’s terrified expression at his award says all that needs to be said. If he is lucky enough he’ll die of cancer. Otherwise, he needs to learn how to smirk.

  9. OK, Les the totals are in. Fees collected total $750, cost of T-shirts and numbers was $450, and the cost for award medals was $18500. Fork over, Ace.

  10. “OK, Les the totals are in. Fees collected total $750, cost of T-shirts and numbers was $450, and the cost for award medals was $18500. Fork over, Ace.”

    Who cares about the money? They raised awareness! Awareness!! AWAAAARENEZZZ!!! Because we all know people there might be someone, somewhere in Westview who doesn’t know about Saint Lisa.

  11. Wait Less, we have one more award. The medal for worst name given to a male character in a comic strip goes to…Tom BatHack…or as we know him, The Creator, for Skyler Fairgood. Thanks for coming everyone, see you next year! Cory, put that money down!

  12. He doesn’t seem terrified. Skyler seems merely startled.

    Which is silly, because there’s not a single one year-old on this earth who wouldn’t be shrieking and crying in terror if they had Les doing that to them, even if we ignore how smarmily repulsive Les is. Just hand him the thing, Les. He’s a dumb kid. He’ll like it because it’s shiny.

    How much do you want to bet that sometime in the next couple years, Batiuk will suddenly decide that Les’s relationship to this child is something of a cool uncle, even though he won’t show a single panel of that development and it wouldn’t be consistent with Les’s character anyway?

  13. Charles: And the kid will no doubt begin to exhibit Lisa-like tendencies, like being ultra-profound, always thinking of others and etc.

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