Y’all thought that the Les-Cayla-Station Wagon Sue thing was going somewhere, didn’t ya? Nope. Welcome to Act IV. Les is finishing up his first year back from a ten-year sabbatical following his suspension for inciting the Great Cafeteria Catfight of 2010/2020.And that student giving him the stink-eye? Not Cory, that’s the hitherto-unseen Wally Jr., now in his sixth year at Westview.
Ten years on, though, Les is still rockin’ that yellow shirt.
“It’s Susan Smith, grown up and pretty! She’s winning Les away from me by reminding him that he saved her life when she attempted suicide!”
I think today’s space would have been put to much better use depicting a wild cafeteria catfight to the death between Cayla “the Crusher” and Susan “the Snake”, as Les appreciatively looks on, wearing that smug smirk we see on his disembodied head at the top of today’s comic.
The school lunchroom is an absolutely ideal setting for what had damn well better be the final chapter of this juvenile love triangle. It took twenty (thirty?) years, but Les the Nerd is now Les the Stud. Get in line, ladies. Cayla: now do you get it? Les: Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last ? Have you left no sense of decency ?
This woman will not take no for an answer. Lunch room duty? No problem!
“Thanks, but sadly…I’ve still got diahrrea from our dinner the other night at Toxic Taco.” “No problem! Just bring the chapter and we’ll work on it in the crapper!”
“Thanks, but sadly…I really haven’t spent much time with Cayla lately. I think I should see if she’s around.” “No problem! I tied her up in the janitor’s closet!”
“Thanks, but sadly…you’re really getting to be a pain in the ass.” “No problem! I’ll try killing myself again and you’ll have to rescue me!”
For a high-school jock, Summer’s got a rather girly-girl bedroom. Pink walls, pink draperies…anyway, in panel 3, why is she giving that “hmmmm” look? Unless this scene is taking place on a Friday, of course Susan will see Les tomorrow. They work together.
I have to say that Summer’s profile in panel one reminds me of this famous “ambiguous image”: which do you see, a young girl or an old woman?
Son of Stuck Funky 