Bleah, another Sunday throwaway comic book tribute, and an even more lazy effort that usual; TB hasn’t even gone to the trouble of swapping Les and Cayla’s heads onto Superman and Superwoman. He’s merely dropped in a rifle-scope point of view showing our “happy” couple, putting a neat li’l bow on last week’s arc. I’m not a comix fanboy, but Batiuk famously is: aren’t there any black superheroines he could have used to represent Cayla? There must be; but I guess the rights to those characters haven’t yet passed into the public domain. Who ever heard of Superwoman? And why is she dressed in green?
Tag: Cayla
Get Outta My Grill
Do the Cayla!
That’s a lot of verbiage to slog through to get to the joke, the joke being (I guess) that silly, indecisive Les can’t even decide between two menu items, let alone take an active role in planning his and Cayla’s wedding.
Cayla’s gesturing the last couple days has been a little too emphatic.
Tumblin' Dicey
Even as he pays lip service to Cayla’s “amazing” wedding scheme, Les searches for any excuse to get out of having it at his house (or perhaps having it at all?). October in Ohio can indeed spell “dicey” weather for such an event. Of course, Cayla’s had plenty of time to think this through while her betrothed was off on his mountain trek.
Cayla’s perpetually changing, often franky weird appearance (and the snark it has inspired from you guys) sent me off on a little tangent regarding persons of color in the funnies. Does anyone remember a relatively short-lived strip called Dateline: Danger? It ran from 1968 till 1974, and was about the adventures of two daring reporters, one white and one black: it was one of the first newspaper comics to feature a black leading character. The artist was Alden McWilliams, who got his start illustrating pulp mags before moving into newspaper funnies.
I remember as a kid being intrigued by the dramatic, theatrical shading McWilliams (a white male) used when drawing Danny Raven (ha) and other darkly complected characters. Never relying on halftone dots, McWilliams used solid tones and actual African facial characteristics to convincingly portray his black characters. Just shows it can be done, TB.
Taj Moore Huh?
Having the wedding at Montoni’s actually seems like a pretty good option right about now, as opposed to having their nuptials in front of Les’ house, under what will be a “canopy” of bare branches in a few weeks’ time.
Make Some Noise with the Pots and Pans
Aww, their first quarrel. Cayla has decided that now she’s gonna give Les shit about having to plan the wedding on her own, even though she did agree to “deal with all of the wedding plans“, and even though she declined at least twice to join Les on the Kilimanjaro trek.
Son of Stuck Funky 