The Ridger
January 7, 2012 at 2:46 pm
…Is TB gearing up to tread on Pat Summitt’s turf with his craporiffic “storytelling”?
A tip of the SoSF tinfoil hat to The Ridger for that very prescient comment from over two months ago! Today’s strip is also notable in that the girls’ roster has expanded from seven to eleven or twelve (the girl to Bull’s right wears a shirt with no number and might be the equipment manager).
Don’t forget to check out TB’s latest blog post on the official FW site!
I read today’s strip and suddenly had a hunch as to why TB chose to elevate second-stringer Ann Fairgood to such a prominent role. It took her years, but Fishstick Annie has gone from equipment girl all the way to assistant coach of the (Division III) State Champs! Her life is now complete. Now she’s taking a mental picture of the empty arena. Next month: Ann visits the doctor and gets some very bad news…
I would’ve welcomed a “Sundays with Crazy Harry” strip here, but I suppose TB’s gotta let the Sunday-only readers revel in the Westview girls’ triumph. Fishstick Annie cuts down the net— jeez, somebody hold that ladder! And the gray-jacketed OSHAA guy (they all wear gray jackets) passes out the Ohio-shaped medallions (round on both ends and “hi” in the middle!). Superstar Summer and Second Fiddle Keisha pass out the hugs to the nameless scrubs. The rather cheap looking trophy is hoisted, Stephen Hawking Annie admires her medallion, and Channel One is on the scene to record Bull spouting his idiocy.
Epicus Doomus
March 9, 2012 at 11:42 pm…Now for the Annie Goats victory lap, which TB will no doubt treat like V-E Day or something.
Yeah…that’s coming…
Today’s strip is just packed! More of TB’s trademark bald exposition (either that or Holly is so sports-illiterate that she can’t even read a scoreboard). Les looks like he’s about to hurl; must be that flu bug. What the hell is doing Keisha sitting next to the coaches on the bench? Summer’s game face is replaced by a mask of bewilderment as she is handed the ball by Newark, NJ’s Mayor Cory Booker. I think that’s a basketball, although in the POV shot in panel 2, she’s holding it like a flatbread.
Scary-looking Background Character
o’ the Day
Epicus Doomus
March 4, 2012 at 12:15 am
I was kind of hoping against hope that [Sunday] we’d get the ENTIRE title game in one quick, relatively painless day. How foolish of me.
Epicus, you know “endings have to be earned”! And we all know that after all the buildup, the big game will take at least a full week to play out. Ergo: although TB established yesterday that Summer was feeling the effects of “this flu thing”, why not ratchet up the “suspense” a little more with today’s wacky hijinks?
Son of Stuck Funky 