I’ve been waiting years to finally see this. What we’re seeing here is known as a “Westviewian baptism” ceremony. Outsiders are not normally privy to witness “The Throwin’ O The Leaves”, an indoctrination ritual involving leaves, wordplay and light-hearted banter based on 1940s pop culture. According to the faith it absolves the recipient of “original wryness”, whatever that means. Then your parents get a bunch of savings bonds they’re supposed to set aside for you. Consider yourselves very, very fortunate to get this rare glimpse of Westviewian culture.
But seriously, questionable native American faux-slang aside, these two are seriously beginning to wear on me. It doesn’t matter what they say, it doesn’t matter what they do. It’s just that they’re there, that they exist at all. Summer is the “religious missionary at your door who won’t go away” of comic strip characters and Les is incapable of being anything less than rage-inducing regardless of what he does. At least the black Sunday borders are gone, finally.
Son of Stuck Funky 
“Pizza at Montoni’s” does not count as having your anniversary covered.
I am sure that there is a special place in Hell for those who make bad puns.
Eh…in any other strip, this would be considered a win. For Funky Winkerbean, this would be considered a light-hearted romp. So–it’s stupid, not funny at all, and has Les…I’m guessing this might be a “joke.”
I fucking hate puns. Especially ones that have to be manufactured to within an inch of their life.
Geez Louise! The point of six days of a beaten to death trope about forgetful husbands was just to set up a forced pun on Sunday. TB if you put half that much effort into your strip’s art, pacing, continuity, … this blog would starve to death.
The greater horror is that Summer is just there to help in setting up the horrible party eating horrible pizza in a horrible restaurant in a horrible town.
I tell a lie. The horrible thing is that if we did see her getting crushed down by a hostile world that mocks us all and doesn’t care about Silver Age DC Comics, convenience-store quality pizza and Friday Night watching the Scapegoats lose, it’d be just as stupid as this.
I’ve thought some times that realistically it’s probably hard for a step-parent to really develop bonds with their new child. Unintentionally, we are actually seeing that. There’s a bit of interaction between Cayla and Summer and even less between Les and Keisha.
@Gyre: “I’ve thought some times that realistically it’s probably hard for a step-parent to really develop bonds with their new child. Unintentionally, we are actually seeing that. There’s a bit of interaction between Cayla and Summer and even less between Les and Keisha.”
How can this be a family in any sense, when the person that is the center of it — Less, doesn’t give a darn about anyone but himself? I wonder if BatHack has any clue how sick he presents this family? A husband who only cares about his dead wife, a wife who is a door mat, who has given up on engaging with her husband because of his obsession with the dead wife, and the kids say nothing. But hey! that’s writing in A-hi-a!
In which Tom Batiuk tries to be Stephan Pastis, and fails.
In past posts, I’ve pointed out that Ohio has at least one good writer, John Scalzi, who lives in Bradford. But John’s originally from California.
And so it goes.
While I never drop spoilers, I can tell you all that we are not finished with leaves yet, not by a damn sight.
Dickface should be throwing bricks at that snotty kid of his in light of that horrific joke. No one goes father to get nowhere than TB does, that’s for sure.
Do people seriously throw big parties for their second anniversary? I’m thinking Baituk doesn’t understand anniversaries, since earlier on Cayla made a big deal over the kids not sending cards.
And I think this might be the best panel of FW ever:
I bet this new book is going to bring the psychotic Susan back into the storyline. She left when Les chose Cayla, but she’ll be in the book. Cayla will read it and think Les has feelings for Susan. Susan will read it and think Les is in love with her and come back to Westview and try to steal him away Then she’ll try to commit suicide again.
“I fucking hate puns. Especially ones that have to be manufactured to within an inch of their life.”
I think you mean 1/4 inch.