Big thanks to my right hand man David O for guest posting lo these last two weeks!
Although we’ve only just met him, it seems like “the sportos” are well acquainted with Jarod Posey. His arrival in uniform is greeted with disbelief and jeers. “Posey the Nosey”? Just because it rhymes, I guess; loners are typically more interested in securing their own privacy than violating others’. We’re given an inkling of Jarod’s tumultuous home life, as well as a look at his newly-blond, though still receding, hair.
The Blind Sided
MKay: I’m not all that into sports – is there a position in football in which a trench-coated player stands smoking in one spot, occasionally pausing to hurl a football a great distance? Because this guy would be GREAT at that!
Apparently Coach sees the same thing in Jarod in Today’s strip!
Team-work, strategy, nimble-ness, speed, stamina, co-ordination, not to mention grades be damned, this boy can throw a football!
Considering Coach goes around “rehabbing” people with shredded ACLs with no medical training whatsoever, this almost makes sense.
Still, like MKay, I don’t know a lot about sports, but doesn’t Westview already have a quarterback? It’s such a played out plot that I think we’re just one step away from a goal-kicking mule.
The One
It would appear that Neo Jarod is able to throw a football tens and tens of feet and have it land somewhere near where he wants it to! From the look of Coach in
today’s strip, this is not a common occurrence. I’d be more impressed if Jarod wasn’t using some kind of a Dragonball Z powerup in panel 1 to get the job done.
Gross Anatomy
Whoa!
I know things get a bit rushed sometimes, what, with everyone’s busy schedule but what in the heck is going on with the human form in today’s strip?!
P1. Coach is literally as wide as he is tall. Jarod looks like he swallowed an ironing board while Wedgeman… whoa, dude, is your head even attached!?
P2. Wedgeman suddenly has the body of an 80 year old man while Coach’s legs deflate like two leaking innertubes as Jarod devolves even further…
P3. It’s the Geico Caveman!
Could Be A Movie Deal Here
Anyone waiting for some sort of Bautikian demise for Coach better stop holding their breath; no, from the look of today’s strip we’ve got at least a few months of “Unlikable loser no one likes teaches coach a few things about football, and, in turn, learns a lot about life.” strips coming down the pike. Now, if Jerod is supposed to be the new coach’s assistant or new quarterback I couldn’t tell you, but prepare to wallow in 80s high school movie troupes that’ll culminate with Jerod being crowned the Westview Homecoming King.
Not bad for a 30 year old who still hangs out at school!
Son of Stuck Funky 