Keisha: it didn’t sound weird until you followed it up with “as weird as that sounds.” And of course Les will like it: he’s not crazy; he’s (say it with me now) the last sane person on the planet.
Tag: Cayla
Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby?
Keisha returns home from workin’ up a sweat with her BFF. She’s greeted by mom Cayla, who unveils her latest strategy to woo Westview’s most famous scribe: a new ‘do. Am I reading too much into the look of glassy-eyed desperation in Cayla’s eyes in the last panel? Younger…please oh please tell me I look younger…
Read-undancy
As the Pizza Summit drags on, Les’ Harem of Two cannot get enough of The Grounded One’s wisdom. We learn that as a kid he was, what else? a fan of comic books. But rather than stash his comix away as a hedge against economic uncertainty, Little Lester would endlessly re-read them, “always hoping that the endings would change.” But didn’t Einstein once say that “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results”? So much for Les being the last sane person on the planet.
Les’ point about writing one’s own endings, though, should strike a chord with readers of this blog. A number of you have come up with some endings of your own: a lesbian affair for Summer…a catfight between Cayla and Susan…Wally going out with guns blazing…all of these more compelling and plausible than the “endings” that TB makes us “earn”.
Bonus maddening detail: Les has been wearing what looks like a yellow Livestrong bracelet on his left wrist that seemingly appears and disappears, and goes from yellow to white and back. Nice attention to detail, TB.
Chalk Talk
Les continues TB’s manifesto from yesterday. Interesting qualifier in the very wordy panel one: “I used to spend whole mornings in the summer making what I considered to be beautiful chalk drawings on the sidewalk…” Substitute Tom Batiuk for Les, and this strip for chalked scrawls on the sidewalk…It’s clear that our author considers his work to be a “masterpiece”. The rain, of course, represents haters like us who go and piss all over it.
Susan Says
Once again, Susan serves as Batiuk’s mouthpiece, preaching about the function of “art”, especially as it relates to stories about cancer. Meanwhile, Cayla apparently has checked her backbone at the door.
Son of Stuck Funky 
