I guess Batiuk’s not gonna bother refreshing our memory about this Mickey character, or how she, a kicker, scored the winning touchdown 11 years ago. He’s content just to have her mentally undressed by a locker room full of teenage boys while her stepdad looks on.
Gang, that wraps up my turn in the SoSF barrel for now. Be sure to tune in tomorrow when a brand new surprise special guest author steps into the breach for the next couple weeks!
It’s Batiuk’s party and he can pull long-absent characters out of his ass if he wants to. Mickey is Linda’s daughter from a previous whatever. I can’t get my hands on those Act I strips but as a teen, Mickey was seen hanging out at Montoni’s. Bull’s “how’s your kicking leg” query is only half in jest: if he can get away with putting the team mascot in the game, what’s to stop him from recruiting an adult female?
Yeah, so that Scapegoat football team that, back on picture day, their coach suggested would not only lose but would be reduced to unidentifiable corpses? Today they are “one game away from the conference championship.” You’d think a reality-based comic strip that depicts contemporary issues affecting young adults blah blah blah would get some mileage from the story of a historically losing football team fighting its way to the top. But this “comic” strip’s really about the way these teachers utterly despise the student body.
Jim, rotten, hateful, possibly psychotic Jim, who, like Les, couldn’t give a shit about football or any sports, only brought up the team’s success to launch another slam against the kids (does Jim have kids? Or a wife? Never been explored). Bull accepts the backhanded compliment of his coaching ability. Les, who like Bull, is himself a product of this “lousy gene pool” Jim’s talking about, smirks appreciatively.
While we’ve spent October following the Life of Les (he’s appeared in all but one strip this month), the Fighting Scapegoats have somehow made it to the championship game. Is Coach Bushka ready to take his team to the top? Of course not. Making it to the championship just means extra “game prep” for Bull. It’s the worst! See, this being the Funkiverse, every silver lining has a cloud; like when Hollywood wants to make a movie out of your book. In fact, maybe Les’ negativity has begun to spread to his fellow Westview faculty…let’s call it “Les-fluenza.”
Son of Stuck Funky 
