Faint That a Shame

Link to today’s strip.

sourbelly

March 31, 2011 at 12:57 am
Oh, OK, I get it. Mallory didn’t reject Cody because he’s a greasy, creepy, smarmy piece of crap. She rejected him because she’s a stuck-up bitch!

Not only that, she’s also materialistic to the point where the mere suggestion of a threat to her accustomed lifestyle triggers a fainting spell.

Boy, TB’s all over the place this week, huh? In the interest of continuity, I’ve reworked today’s panel 2 so it flows a little better from yesterday’s strip:

Practice is Everything

Here’s today’s waste of newsprint and ink.

billytheskink
March 28, 2011 at 11:15 am 

So a self-admitted mediocre trumpet player that the band director claims gives the rest of the band performance anxiety was given the LEAD SOLO at that big concert in Cincinnati a few months back? The stories, they do not fit together too well…

David O
March 28, 2011 at 4:30 pm

…TB sorta glosses over the fact that Owen was First Trumpet, Lead Solo not too long ago.

Owen’s lack of trumpet practice causes Becky to throw up her hand in despair. The “punchline” is that Owen only dimly perceives that his teacher is criticizing his work ethic (or lack of same). Where a real-world kid might say, “You’re right, Ms. Howard, I’m sorry”, or offer some excuse for not practicing, Owen has to process what he’s hearing.

I have created a new post category, “clueless students”, to be used for strips where Westview’s teens demonstrate such an utter lack of comprehension.