Oh Cayla. We feel for you, we do. Please: take your daughter and leave Westview for somewhere, anywhere, where you and your opinions are valued. Either that, or start throwin’ down, now, right now. What the hell happened in your life to cause you to allow yourself to be walked upon time again by people like Susan and Les? Seriously, it’s starting to break my heart.
I’ve already used “Clue-Les” as a post title, but it would work almost as well as a title for this entire blog. The Widower Moore operates in his own world, totally oblivious to how his actions are perceived by others. He’s not done stringing Salt and Pepa along: again he delivers the windup: “Well, actually…there was one other thing…” and again the ladies brace themselves for a showdown. Les then produces (from where?) two prospective book cover ideas for their perusal.
Les the Wimp gets owned again, this time by Funky, who has usurped Les’ triumph on behalf of all Westviewvians.
What is with the staging of today’s scene? Funky asks a question from behind the counter, Les replies, and Funky races around the counter to exult? Susan is so startled that in panel 2, she retracts her head like a turtle.
Sure, she’s mentally unstable, but there is a method to Station Wagon Susan’s madness: allow her rival to reply first, and then give the exact opposite response, knowing that Cayla will sheepishly concur.
It was Memorial Day when TB left off with the Les/Cayla/Susan triangle, and after a summer of time-travel and PTSD-afflicted dating (but ironically, no Summer), he picks it up again. The top-right panel is quite well-drawn, and portends much drama. Taken by itself, there are many ways one can go with it: is Cayla driving past Montoni’s when she happens to spy Susan walking in? Or is she parked outside, lying in wait? In the next panel we learn that both ladies have been summoned to the pizzeria by Les, “The Man”. Of course, Susan has made it a point to arrive first.
Note the ladies’ astonished expressions in the penultimate panel at Les’ un-ironic use of the phrase “long and hard”.
Son of Stuck Funky 