ZRRRNK… what? What’s happening? I fell asleep during the last 5 strips when Les was talking about nails. What’s going on in today’s strip?
Oh, C’MON. You have got to be kidding me. They’re still going on about some bent, rusty nail!? Thankfully, the appearance of an old woman who possesses a head the size of King Kong’s appears to be just about to devour Les whole.
Is something going to happen here? Why can’t Les just spout this stuff to Crazy Harry back in Westview? The reactions would be about the same. How is this advancing today’s plot at all? Today’s strip is just cumbersome. Mason is trying to be polite but Les is taking his single-word answers as interest.
Maybe I’m wrong. Maybe this story is fascinating. Let’s try an experiment tomorrow, Snarkers. Recite, word for word, the Pavarotti story to a co-worker, friend, family member or mailman. See if they seem even slightly interested.
I’ll do the same and let you know how it goes.
Les’s ability to quote random Wikipedia articles doesn’t quite pass Mason’s bullshit meter in today’s strip. Les is trying to help, but it’s going to take more than unnatural hand gestures and stories so boring that they made Mason’s skull elongate to get Mason over his anxiety about reading out-loud in a small private room to a handful of folks he already knows.
SoSFDavidO here for the next two weeks, takin’ the reins!
Here we are, still in Hollywood. It’s a good thing Les doesn’t have to start preparing for school in the upcoming week or so. Today’s strip has Les still hanging out with Mason, about to watch Mason do a table reading, which is probably some industry lingo TomBat picked up a week ago.
SoSFDavidO here for the next two weeks, takin’ the reins!
Looking back at Lisa’s Story, the other shoe, (inspiration for the script they’re yammering about in today’s strip,) it’s hard to imagine how much he could do to add or remove from the strip. Almost every part of the movie is going to take place at Int: Montoni’s Pizza or Int: Lisa’s bathroom. Sure, there’s a few trips to the hospital and that weird football catch at the beginning but other than that, Lisa’s Story would be better told as a novel or a… (reluctant sigh) daily comic strip.
Son of Stuck Funky 