Tag: Cayla

Milking the Joke

Question for snarkers in the Buckeye State: is “selling milk at lunch in the cafeteria” something that Ohio school students are really called upon to do? Isn’t that the cafeteria ladies’ job? I’m asking because Batiuk brings this up again. Though I can imagine helmet-haired, bespectacled teenage Les in a hairnet, sheepishly proffering milk to his fellow students . I bet Bull even intimidated Les to give him milk for free. And if that activity is worthy of a yearbook mention, what about Les’ gig as machine-gun wielding hall monitor? I’ll bet that would impress his bride-to-be!

Note: today’s post briefly went “live” along with Monday’s post. The first few comments below were posted before I caught the error.

Beating 'Round the Bushka

Epicus Doomus
June 5, 2012 at 12:39 am
Panel two [of Tuesday’s strip]  = worst Summer drawing ever?

Well, maybe…that is, until today! What the hell happened here? Looks like TB put down the “Funky felt tip” and went for the Sharpie Magnum 44! Summer’s crudely rendered mug resembles that of an an Egyptian mummy.

Jeffcoat Wayne
June 7, 2012 at 12:48 am
Bull’s gonna help Les train to climb a 19,000-foot mountain? Riiiiiiight. Bull looks like he can’t even climb into the team bus without breaking a hard sweat. Christ, he looks like he’s about to pop a spleen just climbing out of his minivan.

Meanwhile, fat, lumbering, old Bull Bushka is all of a sudden this powerful, bellowing drill sergeant, and for the sake of a “punchline”, Batiuk has un-retconned Les and Bull’s high school history. Today’s strip just sucks on so many levels.

Con"Grads"ulations, Class of 2022–err, 2012?

Guest blogger DavidO here, reporting for duty for my last entry before passing the reins back to someone with much more talent than I, TFHackett!

Confusing, impossible to decipher time-jumps aside, Summer and Company (Aka, the nameless, faceless rest of her class) has finally graduated from high school!

Call me an ol’ softy but I can’t find too many faults with Sunday’s strip, aside from the smirk on Summer’s P1 baby picture. It’s actually rather well done and paced at a level that lends itself well to a one-shot Sunday strip.

Enjoy it, Snarkers. Dailies like this are far and few inbetween.

It's Called Cloning.

Things sure are moving quickly in this story arc; today’s strip makes it obvious that _____ has gotten a scholarship to Kent State!

Now, I have to admit, _____ has always been one of my favorite characters for the following reasons:

1. Despite being raised by a single parent, _____ has been able to really push herself and become a star basketball player on her high school girl’s basketball team; so much so that Kent State has invited her to the campus and she’s even been able to get a scholarship out of it.

2. ____ is incredibly cool about the fact her parent has entered into a mixed marriage, and is even very close to her new “sister”, _____.

3. ____ May be a girl, but she’s all tomboy at heart, and isn’t afraid to throw down with the boys.

4. _____ loves Montoni’s pizza! Thankfully, she has a parent that works there so she can get a good table. She also has parental figures that work at the local high school that she attends.

Seriously, is there any reason to have Keisha around if she’s just going to be Summer II? How much more interesting would it have been if Keisha didn’t get a scholarship to Kent State and had to slog through classes at a local community college? There’d be resentment, drama, jealousy over Summer’s charmed life and Keisha’s valiant struggle to validate herself…

But what do I know; I’m not a writer, apparently.