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Not too long ago I was going back and forth with the SoSF staff and I mentioned how I don’t always mind getting a Les arc, as at least there’s something to really hate there as opposed to the typical “Funky is fat” idiocy. Well, the gods of the Funkyverse must have been listening, because this week something I’ve long-dreaded has come to pass…Summer (shudder) is back. Never tempt the gods of the Funkyverse, friends. The consequences are simply not worth it.
I’ve always despised Summer almost as much as Les (and Lisa for that matter). She’s always too twee, too gritty or, as you can see today, too snotty. The hair, the neck, the hoodie…it’s all so grating. Summer is truly her father’s daughter. So today she’s back in her (surprise!) robin’s egg blue car to remind us about an arc we’d all prefer to forget. If that wedding was any crappier you’d have to scrape it off the bottom of your shoes with a stick. Meanwhile Dickface is (surprise!) furiously raking leaves, as Leafpocalypse ’14 has begun. The Funkyverse’s stars are all aligning in some sort of grand confluence of boredom and misery, it’s gonna be a long, long week, snarkers.
Son of Stuck Funky 
Autumn hits hard in Westview, Ohio. Meanwhile, it looks like Keisha is on a hunger strike.
Ecch….
I personally am thrilled to see Summer again. Although with our luck we’ll never hear any more about school beyond that “it’s killing [them].”
And now we see why they haven’t come back to Westview until now–things were clearly going too well for them. Now that they’re miserable, they’re allowed back within city limits.
With all due respect, Epicus, I believe it’s, “Don’t Ask . . . Don’t Tell . . . Definitely Don’t Show!”
The entire Moore clan is like some horrible experiment in bio-weaponry gone wrong.
Considering that Summer was at the big fun run just yesterday, it seems a little odd that Less would be surprised to see her… unless that’s not Summer at all, but Mopey Pete.
Oh, yes. University is a misery factory because they’re not actually prepared for life outside of their bunker-like home town. The alien sights, the odd foods, the refusal to admit that eating grocery-store quality pizza and smirking about Silver Age DC Comics is the apex of human accomplishment and the expectation that they do things instead of passively moan is killing them.
So. After years of indecision, has Summer oficially been retconned into a boy?
World, meet Winter Leslie Moore.
As I mentioned in the other place, Cayla does not seem to be whitening, rather she has become deciduous. Note that as the leaves turn color, so her face begins to turn color also. Now the question is, like the symbolic leaves, will it, too, fall off?
Stay tuned for the next exciting episode of Die da unten.
Ugh, that pencil neck! Something about the way he draws necks that would snap if they were proportioned that way in real life – (shudder).
Well, now that we’ve caught up with Summer and Keisha, it’s time to move on to the real story this week – Les and Cayla’s gala first anniversary celebration – or more accurately – Les’s gala first anniversary celebration.
My parents did not put nail-biting pressure on me to succeed in college, but school would not have been what I would be worried about killing me had I shown up at home complaining about it on a day when I was supposed to be in class.
Summer’s been out of the strip so long Bat-Hack forgot how to draw her. Seriously, what is wrong with her face, nose and neck in that last panel?? She actually looks like Pete!
Glad to see I’m not the only one who thinks Summer looks like Pete, seriously what a terrible, woefully inconsistent artist.
” Now that they’re miserable, they’re allowed back within city limits.”
I’m wondering if maybe, just maybe, FW is set in THAT part of Westview, and there really is a part where normal people live and laugh……………………
And once again another resident of Westville finds the outside world too hard to deal with. Really this is place Its as if ‘It’s A Wonderful Life’ had George Bailey being beaten with wooden staves and dumped in the town square everytime he tried to leave.
captaincab: IMO she’s been scarce because he CAN’T draw her. Same thing happened to Cayla before he de-rasta-fied her hair.
School is killing you…and you decided to go back to Westview to relax and unwind??? I guess Plato’s Cave IS a real thing.
There was a strip I was reading from 2008, where the first two panels were flashbacks of Lisa talking romantic to Les, and the third was summer finishing the sentence in the present. Summer was literally exactly the same as Lisa, just with dark hair. Identical face, identical haircut. That’s one of the things that disturbs me about here especially given how obsessed Les was with her.
Thing that amazes me about this is that Summer and Keisha are both supposed to be turning 21 this school year. They’ve just entered their junior year of college, and yet look at them. Cayla’s head is about 40% larger than either Summer’s or Keisha’s. Summer looks all the world like some dopey, bored 11 year-old boy with an infection that bloats her face. And while it’s nice that she actually looks like a female person, with a couple more lines on her neck Keisha would look like a withered 85 year-old whose physical development was stunted by the Great Depression.
Again, these are supposed to be women at the height of their youth and vitality.
And nice not calling ahead, dumbasses. What would you have done if Les and Cayla had gone away for the weekend, or simply weren’t there when you arrived? “Well, we can go to Montoni’s. You know that useless fat pantload and his dumpy wife are always there.” More evidence that no one in this universe owns a working cell phone.
Also, Keisha and Summer are the age where “school trouble” most likely means that they’ve realized they’re not going to graduate before their scholarships run out. Good thing that Les got all that fat Hollywood money from the movie of Lisa’s Story, because now he’ll be able to pay for…. OOPS.
But if it’s just that classes are too hard, it’s good that they have solid, serious educator Leslie Moore to give them advice on how to cope… OOPS.
Also, how totally convenient that both Keisha and Summer were having school trouble, and that their experience at college so closely mirrors one another. That prevents Batiuk from actually having to make Keisha an individual character with her own traits. Instead, he can just craft a story for Summer and say “yeah, her too” should he even bother to think of her stupid little buddy.