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Today’s Breast Cancer Awareness PSA comes courtesy of Cayla, who is performing a self-exam and wearing a pink shirt in panel 1.

Also in P1, TB didn’t put much effort into drawing Becky’s face or hair, but as always, he gets That Empty Sleeve just right.
Westview’s red Scapegoat mascot, aka Satanic Snoopy, makes its second appearance in as many days.
According to Linda, Roberta now is trying to prohibit not just our nameless gay boys but all same-sex couples from partaking in prom.

Though her face is contorted with rage, and though she’s speaking forcefully enough to generate little “noise lines” in front of her mouth, Roberta musters enough restraint to delicately refer to our two gay students as “a same-sex couple”. It’s doubtful that in real life someone who’d fly into such a rage over this would have that much self control. Principal Nate is one of the rare FW characters with any kind of backbone, and surely he could relate to being discriminated against. You’d expect him to throw this idiot (and her husband) out of his office. Instead, he just looks…tired.

Raging Roberta

The fired-up Mrs. Blackburn marches into Nate’s office to express her displeasure. From Cayla’s blasé reaction, it appears that everyone who seeks an audience with the principal does it by storming in and making demands.

I’m beginning to find Mr. Blackburn even more aggravating than Mrs. Blackburn. Right or wrong, least she’s capable of expressing emotion. All he’s doing is standing around with that stupid camcorder.

SoSF's Second Anniversary Giveaway!

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The Grim Gay Ghost

No sooner does the much-hyped Coming Gay Prom story get underway than we take a detour into “Sundays with Crazy Harry”-land. No wonder the United States Postal Service is on the brink of bankruptcy, with goldbricks like carrier Klinghorn on the payroll. I’ll overlook John’s improper grammar in panel 4, to focus on what I hope is the real gag today (because the punchline sucks, as usual): in the penultimate panel, John is expressing optimism about the state of his business; meanwhile he’s holding a comic book titled The Grim Ghost. Irony?

It gets better (hah!): Maybe TB is a little more clever than we give him credit for! A little more “komix” research turned up this factoid courtesy of Wikipedia:

An earlier and somewhat similar character called the Gay Ghost has since been named the Grim Ghost due to the modern connotations of the word “gay”.

Is Batiuk going meta on us? Naw…probably just a coinky-dink.

SoSF 2nd Anniversary Giveaway Announcement
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