Career Sue-icide

TheDiva
June 19, 2011 at 2:01 pm

…[Batiuk] can indulge in Les heroically facing his strawman accusers, while Cayla stands by her man and Susan ultimately takes the blame and willingly sacrifices her career so Les’ will survive.

Not sure if TheDiva peeked ahead to today’s strip, but I don’t imagine there could be any other outcome, since Batiuk can’t allow our “Absen-teecher of the Year” to become embroiled in such scandal. I really want to interpret Susan’s dispassionate demeanor as a prelude to a psychotic episode where, realizing at last that Mr. Moore can never be hers, she takes out half of Westview before offing herself. But that would be too entertaining, not to mention it would also fullfill O.B. Dan’s TGF prophecy. Most likely, Susan Smith Westbrook will vanish from this strip just as abruptly as she reappeared.

Subordi-Nate

So Susan has also been summoned to Principal Nate’s office, and Nate’s waving a blank piece of paper and giving them hell, throwing in a completely random climate-change reference just to keep it 1/4″ from reality. Before Les can give his side, which I’d really be interested in hearing, Susan goes into her dead-eyed zombie mode and takes the fall.

Summoned

For lack of anything new or interesting to comment upon today, let us focus on Principal Nate’s messenger. I don’t know if it’s the custom in real-world high schools, but apparently students at Westview are pressed into various and sundry clerical positions.Which must really suck for students such as our Miss Generic Brunette, as evinced by her disdainful expression, terrible posture, and the way she’s holding the message from Nate like it’s one of Cody’s discarded Kleenex.

Kiss Catastrophe

Today we see what Cayla was hiding under that pirate shmatte: a(-nother) new hairdo! So preoccupied is Les with his own situation that Cayla has to prompt him for a compliment, and she receives only a halfhearted one at that.

Meanwhile, in the Computer Lab, the number of “people on the internet” who have witnessed The Kiss grows to at least a million six. Even Cody and Owen share in the hilarity!

Today’s post title comes courtesy of the Damnwells:

“Kiss Catastrophe”, the Damnwells