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.
Tag: Cayla
Opposites Detract
Raise your hand if, like me, you’re roughly the same age as Les, Funky, and Crazy Harry. I know that’s more than a few of you. Now get up, go across the room, and grab your high school yearbook. What’s that? You don’t have it right at hand? It’s been packed away up in the attic for 20, 30 years? Yeah, mine too. Come to think of it: what’s Cayla’s yearbook doing on the shelf in Les’ house? Have she and Keisha moved in already? What has become of Darin and Jess?
Les the Good Times Droll
“Very droll“? Very dull is more like it. Day five of Cayla and Summer teasing Les about what a dork he was in high school, pointing and laughing at a yearbook that we’re not allowed to see; not even so much as a photo-album-cornered, sepia-toned “classic” flashback. The “stuck on a rope” gag actually did occur in Act I. Don’t know what’s “very droll” about pointing out Les’ misfortune, nor do I know what it is Cayla thinks she sees.
The Hat Locker
“Your friend Crazy Harry“, I guess so as not to confuse him with any other Crazy Harrys, or with the relatively sane Harry Dinkle. More stiff dialogue from Batiuk, and more needlessly effusive gesticulating from Les. At least he seems to be warming to being interrogated about his school days. Tune in tomorrow to hear Cayla ask “Did you really piss your pants in the janitor’s closet?”
Don't Be a Dickinson
If I were a cartoonist, and if I had gone to great lengths to create an author avatar? I would never allow my author avatar to be Such. A. Douche. There’s a difference between “self-effacing” and “self-immolating”. Les’ pose in panel 1 deserves a kick in the nuts. Summer, who has been looking weird all week, at least has an excuse in today’s panel 3: she’s about to explode in laughter at Emily’s–I mean Les’ utter douchiness.
Son of Stuck Funky 