19 thoughts on “Les knows nothink! Nothink!”

  1. “What he plans to do?”? He’s coming to read comic books with Les, it’s not a huge mystery. Of course the way this strip is written he’ll probably end up acting out scenes from Harry Dinkle’s latest book or something.

  2. Yeah, I guess we can all relate to the plight of a guy who invites someone he barely knows to stay with him for an indeterminate period of time without asking a single pertinent question, right? So in order to keep this story from, you know, maybe actually going somewhere, TB opted to have his main character act like a complete moron instead. It’s like TomBan has OCD and he’ll flip out if he doesn’t repeat every premise at least six times.

  3. So today’s Funky Winkerbean features an insufferable blowhard confronting another insufferable blowhard who is taking in another insufferable blowhard for the sole purpose of reading the back issues of a fake comic book.

    Only from the mind of Brooke McBatom®.

  5. Hang on, he says “Mason,” without any context–is this Mason Jarr, the Actor, Mason Jarr, the Movie Actor, or Mason Jarr, the Tragic Misspelling Which Led to the Famous Tragedy?

  6. “Cross your heart”?! Wow, that’s some hard-hitting investigative journalism there!! Lois Lane (comic book!!!) would be proud!

  8. By the way, I love what you’re doing with the banner right now! Giving us a warning of who’s coming up next. It’s like Tetris. 😀

  10. ComicTrek: If Tetris was only one single block that took four months to get to the bottom.

  11. I should think that Les thinks this a particularly courageous admission owing to his usually being certain as to what’s happening around him….despite always being the least aware of his surroundings. His courtship with Dead Lisa could, after all, have been called Casablankstare.

  12. For once, I applaud Les being an insufferable dick. Cindy would walk over anyone for the story. But I still hold out hope that a suddenly homicidal Holly will attack Cindy because Funky, going through Les in the process.

  13. “Well, I may have spilled the beans about Mason Jarr the movie actor coming to Westview, but at least I kept the important secret that he’s going to read comic books while he’s here! Oh shit, did I say that out loud?”

  14. Did one of us hack into Batiuk’s computer or something? That last panel almost seems like it was SOSF altered strips. Fess up, which of you guys did it!!

  15. oddnoc wrote: In today’s strip, Les admits that he’s an intellectual cipher. And Les is the author avatar, so… the prosecution rests.

    Just what I was thinking when I read today’s strip: Finally, Batty admits that he’s intellectually adrift on a vast, empty ocean.

  16. I think TB wanted to prove that comics weren’t just for kids, so he decided to start making comics that weren’t for adults either.

  17. @billytheskink: “I think TB wanted to prove that comics weren’t just for kids, so he decided to start making comics that weren’t for adults either.”

    Or for anyone with a pulse and an IQ above 9.

  18. I love how this entire week Les has had this visage of existential dread. The guy’s got a famous person coming to stay with him and rather than be excited or happy, Les looks as if he just got a crank call from his oncologist. Whatever he’s involved with, he’ll do his best to give it tragic and dramatic tension. He obvious shouldn’t be a teacher. He should plan children’s birthday parties instead.

  19. It’s no wonder that St. Les the Righteous Smirker hates being in this position. Because he only sings in one note – the key of me.

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