Les continues to unload like a dumptruck full of despair onto poor Cayla, who just stopped by the house to get her cell phone charger she’d accidentally left there. Get comfortable on that porch-swing, Cayla; Les is on a roll and you’re not going *anywhere*
Tag: Cayla
It's summer, and the smell of bullshit is wafting in the air…
For a comic that treats its readers to dirigible-sized word balloons with entire short stories in them some days, this strip certainly is lacking some details. I know we needed room for that sideways smirk close up but Backache, please! Unless Les was smoking massive amounts of pot and turning in pages of writing journals full of nothing but AC/DC RULES!!! scrawled all over it I fail to see how this dreaming warrior-poet could fail creative writing and be told he’d never be a writer.
I pity the poor Prof that actually did teach Tom Batiuk creative writing back at Kent State– he’s now drawn the ire of a Pulitzer prize winning cartoonist-writer!
Book Tour of Duty redux
DavidO here, filling in for TFHackett, who is currently out doing a “Son of Stuck Funky” book tour.
It must have been a slow day in the shading department when this strip was colored up; what’s with the dramatic shadowing? Maybe they’re trying to imply a nuke just went off a mile down the road from Les’s house but I doubt it. In either case, I’m glad Les said “Cayla” at the beginning of the strip, otherwise we’d have no idea who that white woman coming up the steps to snog was! Once Cayla’s up on the porch, Les does his best Ash impersonation from the end of Army of Darkness, complete with the white stripe on the side of his noggin.
Hot Ellipses
Weird, lazy punctuation in the first two panels of today’s strip…“Susan is resigning, dot, dot, dot…” “She shouldn’t have to, dot, dot, dot…” And come on, Cayla: like you’re not happy to see Susan go? Meanwhile, the Unabomber returns in the last panel. Meh, just…meh.
Kiss Catastrophe
Today we see what Cayla was hiding under that pirate shmatte: a(-nother) new hairdo! So preoccupied is Les with his own situation that Cayla has to prompt him for a compliment, and she receives only a halfhearted one at that.
Meanwhile, in the Computer Lab, the number of “people on the internet” who have witnessed The Kiss grows to at least a million six. Even Cody and Owen share in the hilarity!
Today’s post title comes courtesy of the Damnwells:
Son of Stuck Funky 
