39 thoughts on “Wuss Moore”

  1. “Don’t bother making the bed, because I’m leaving for my walk and not coming back….to you or to Westview. Fuck this shit”

    This is what I wish Cayla would say, but she’s too much of a doormat to dare to speak up to His Mopishness

  2. …as if Les would do a chore that didn’t involve his precious leaves.

    Cayla, walk far and fast. You still have a chance!

  3. Once again, kudos to the author for creating great drama of looking at a dud, taking the dud out of the case, placing the dud in the dud player, and then sitting there waiting for the dud to begin.

    I may have ruined this for some who have not seen this strip yet.

    I am sorry, there is not a picture of Les taking the dud out of the case. But that would have been a great 7th panel, that would have created even greater drama!

  4. “Don’t make the bed”…ack. So The Other Woman is basically implying that after watching a DVD featuring Lisa’s inane mutterings, he’ll be “ready to go” in the bedroom, eh? Well, THAT’S certainly very normal and not at all f*cked up beyond comprehension. But it IS what Cayla’s saying here, right?

    Or is she suggesting that the “For Les” DVD is some sort of perverse sex tape Lisa made for Les? The mind reels and the stomach regurgitates at the very thought. But that doesn’t mean I’d put it past Lisa & Tom either, as I damn well know it’s not that far-fetched.

    Or is she simply ordering Les to pleasure her later, right after he watches a DVD his long-dead wife recorded for him eighteen years ago? Because that’s not exactly “normal” either. BanTom screwed his brain all up with these nutty Lisa fantasies of his, it’s what happens when you try to squeeze a character you killed off eight years ago into a present-day scenario she has no business being in. You start thinking that insane and idiotic plot contrivances are perfectly normal and/or that no one will notice anyway. This time around, though, it seems like everyone everywhere agrees that this is one seriously messed-up arc.

  6. “Don’t bother making up the bed”?

    Yuck.

    So Cayla gets all horny by watching Captain Pike?

    @TFH: I may have to have a mind bleach cocktail after thinking about Les crying out Lisa’s name while getting it on with Cayla.

  7. Oh I can’t wait for another week of Dead St. Lisa the Cancer Chew Toy of the Misdiagnosed Mammogram Who Was Cremated espousing another author filibuster for an entire week.

    Basically it’s one author avatar (DSLtCCTotMMWWC) meddling with THE author avatar (Les). Just let that last sentence sink in.

    Of course, we all emerge as losers in this shameless excuse for a nationally syndicated comic strip.

  8. Alice Cooper – I Love The Dead Lyrics
    I love the dead before they’re cold
    They’re bluing flesh for me to hold
    Cadaver eyes upon me see nothing
    I love the dead before they rise
    No farewells, no goodbyes
    I never knew your rotting face
    While friends and lovers mourn your silly grave
    I have other uses for you, Darling
    We love the dead
    We love the dead, Yeah Lisa that’s you.

  9. I’m pretty sure this “arc” will end with an exterior shot of the house, where we can see Les crying out “Lisaaaaaaa!”, and then a closeup of Cayla smiling, thinking “Oh, that’s my Les!”.

  11. Give Pasties credit for taking criticism in stride, at least.

    As for today’s strip…please, as if Les has made the bed or even changed the sheets since BSD Lisa passed on. He probably makes Cayla sleep in the guest room so she won’t disturb the indentation on the pillow.

  12. I’ve been following the strip every day and haven’t commented in a long time, but now I must speak and all I can say is: arrrrrgggghhhh

  13. More wasted space today. And to think that Watterson used to lament the lack of space given to cartoonists. Watterson sought to add beautiful details and depth to his strips. Batty pretends to be adding depth, but we all know he is just milking the clock.

    PS. Check out Bloom County. This past week he had some nice artwork, and funny stories. Notice I use 2 spaces…

  14. Coming later this year: While renovating the basement, Les discovers a secret Lisa parchment written in an unintelligible language. Lisa comes to Les in a vision and translates the parchment only to him (with a little help from Crazy, of course). Les then founds a new religion, Lisaology, and devotes the rest of his life to spreading Her bland gospel throughout Westview. Cayla gets turned on.

  15. Ugh oh god “don’t bother making the bed” WHAT DOES THAT EVEN MEAN. Les gets sexy alone time with a DVD of soon-to-succumb-to-cancer Lisa? Is that what this is?! What the fuck!

  16. I suppose it’s inevitible that we’re going to have another week of Lisa trying to control things from beyond the grave. It’s too much to hope that insted we’ll follow Cayla on her walk and see some character development that makes her more than the chess piece she is now.

  17. “Don’t bother making up the bed”?

    Because nothing is more erotic than an unmade bed.

  18. Great. Either we get a week of Lisa making maudlin comments, vague guesses about the future and generally being a pissy bitch about the possibility that people might actually think that the world will go on spinning after she dies OR we jump to something else because what she says to Les is private and not for our eyes. Either way, we lose.

  20. @Jon I Am: Hahaha, you beat me to it! That’s almost exactly what I was going to say!

    I think Mr. Batiuk might have found the “Funky CreepyCreepy” parody a while ago–and has been trying to turn this strip into THAT ever since.

  21. The grand deception going on here is that all along kind readers thought the ongoing arc was about Lisa, but it has all really been about Les. Of course it has. *collective slap upside the head*

  22. I remember years ago Josh made a FW joke about Les asking Cayla to put on a bald wig for sexy times. May as well add the pink baseball hat.

    Seriously, Cayla is turned on by Lisa’s harangue? WTF? TB must be a very lonely man.

  23. CauCayla’s going down the street to borrow some ‘ludes from Mr. Cosby, figuring that if she drugs herself into a simulation of death, Less might find her a fitting substitute for Dead St. Lisa.

    By the way, wouldn’t “Dead Saint Lisa” be a great name for a rock band?

  25. So Cayla is taking a long walk. Don’t worry, Funky Fans, Crankshaft, his eventual aneurysm, and an out-of control school bus can’t be far away.

  26. It could have been worse, you know. Rather than tell Les not to make the bed, Cayla could have told him to lay down a towel first.

  28. What I want to know is, does anybody actually make a DVD player without a tray, where you just stick the disc into the slot (the way you do with a CD player in a car)?

  30. @don

    I don’t think so, but even if they did, Batty would still waste space dragging out the whole process of loading the DVD. For Crankshaft, he would show Ed getting his tie stuck in the player and saying something stupid about this show really “pulled him in”.

  31. This is going to have Cayla get pregnant down the line – isn’t it? We are going to get another child (I am guessing a male – not a Lisa girl) for the Moores, and this will be the only child that gets attention because – Les fathered him. Ick.

  32. @Nathan Orbal: All to the applause of other idiots who think that we’re trying to cheat him out of his money instead of telling him that no, we’re not bullying him when we tell him how awful his characters have been allowed to become. I mean, the man requires people who might to contact him to supply their phone numbers and street addresses so his mouthpieces can go after them if they say something he doesn’t like like “Les gets more pathetic and punchable every day” or “For God’s sake, quit talking about Lisa.”

  33. @Rembrandt36 – I hope not. (Shouldn’t they be in their 40’s which can be a time of dangerous pregnancies?) But given TB and his seemingly elastic time sense, we can’t rule that possibility out.

  36. I believe Cayla is supposed to be younger than Dick Face, although because her character has been barely developed I can’t recall how or why I believe this. She wasn’t part of “the gang” though, she’s strictly an Act III character. IMO they’ll definitely have another kid, that’s prime BanTom material right there as it’ll give him an opportunity to re-live the Teen Pregnancy arc yet again, as Cayla will no doubt go into labor at Montoni’s. All Westviewian women do.

  37. Lisa is going to urge Lea to finally come out as gay. She is going to say that the ‘other woman’ (Cayla) will be fine with it because she told her in the other tape to accept Les as he is.

  38. Hmmm. It would appear that Red “I’m not Tom Batiuk, yeah, that’s the ticket” Ronin is being a poor sport about our not loving this horrific exercise in worshiping a dead crazy woman.

  39. See, here we go again with this ridiculous Red Ronin theory. If only there were a snopes entry for something so insiginificant. Or, we could just stop letting the CK board troll us by proxy.

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