Nothing like waiting til they’re being dropped off at Akron-Canton Airport to ask Cayla’s blessing. Summer tries so hard to look sincere in the fourth panel that her face is starting to melt. Not to worry, Summer: Miss Cayla doesn’t “do” camping (she doesn’t “do” mountains either). Cayla: nice job of dismissing the epic father-daughter trek as a mere “camping” trip. And so much for “wither thou goest, I will go”, huh? Well, you haven’t taken any vows yet. In fact, since you’re already at the airport, here’s the perfect opportunity to get tickets for yourself and Keisha to fly far, far away from “Les”view.
Tag: air travel
Action Packed
Apparently Les has a penchant for arriving at the airport three hours before one of his frequent flights. So what? Is that a bad thing? I haven’t flown in years, but I imagine that’s a good idea in light of current airport security measures. No doubt Batiuk arrives at least this early when he’s jetting off to the next comics convention.
Misery Trip
Funky grudgingly accepts the travel agent’s generous donation of a trip to Tanzania to climb Kilimanjaro. Judging from his reaction, this makes for such a lame prize (especially compared to a Disney vacation) that he has no choice but to foist it off as a “mystery trip”. Kind of weird coming from an author who’s actually climbed Kilimanjaro himself!
"Kil" Me Now
I know “it’s called writing”, but TB’s been doing a lot of it this week: once again today we’re treated to a first panel jam packed with Funky’s exposition.
Anybody who happened to read this September interview with Tom Batiuk already sees where this is going (spoiler alert!):
Without giving too much away, are there any more “big events” planned for the cast…?
TB: Sure! There are a bunch of big events, inside and outside of the strip…the girls’ basketball team is going to be vying for the State Championship…In the middle of the year, Les and Summer are going to climb Kilimanjaro.
This tells us that Funky’s improbable raffle idea will succeed (of course!) in saving Scapegoat athletics, and also that TB’s avatar Les will be making a Kili expedition, just as TB did in February 2010. Hopefully Summer’s bum knee will hold up!
Wishing my readers a safe and happy Thanksgiving! –TFH
The Way We Were
Sigh. I don’t want to pick on TB’s 9/11 effort…but I must.
Remember in Act II when the Westview High School Band performed at Carnegie Hall? Me neither. But let’s just say it happened. So excited are Wally and Becky that their faces have become frozen masks of maniacal glee! Of course, that was before shit got real. Flash-forward to — today? Or sometime in the past ten years. Sgt. Wally (we assume) in his dress uniform, is going to or returning from Iraquistan, by way of New York City…looking glumly at the “new normal” skyline, his smirk turned upside-down.
Meanwhile, over at Crankshaft:
More careless time-jerking from Batiuk. Late last month TB posted on his “blogs“:
“I jumped everyone in the Funkyverse ahead in time in 2007 and I didn’t do the same with the cast of Crankshaft [emphasis mine].”
But in today’s CS, Cranky sits in front of the TV, watching a news program entitled “9•11: TEN YEARS LATER”. The reporter is none other than Cindy Summers, reporting from Ground Zero; apparently following the attack, since she’s surrounded by the ruins and ashes of the Twin Towers. Cindy must work for the only U.S. news outlet using pink and yellow in their 9/11 onscreen graphics instead of red, white and blue.
Son of Stuck Funky 
