Oh, come on. This joke might’ve raised a smile before polio had been eradicated in this country. But what 21st century teenager is going to not automatically associate “wearing braces” with teeth?
Tag: Cody
Shelf Life
His “ex” Mallory may be “the world’s perfect genome”, but Cody needs to be sterilized, stat. As if his lousy potential as a breadwinner didn’t make him a poor candidate for fatherhood: witness his complete disdain for his progeny. He’s set them on a shelf somewhere with the rest of his widdle toys. Perhaps barren Owen and Sara can pursue custody.
Getting into Her Genes
As a teen, your author was a nerd and a band geek, too, but my nerd friends and I could still appreciate an attractive girl…and of all the descriptions we might have used for a hot chick, I doubt “the world’s perfect genome” would’ve been among them. Is Owen concerned only with her potential as breeding stock? Is this an Aryan thing? And do high schools allow students to “drop” classes?
The Cody Code
Here’s today’s comic.
More of Cody’s assdouchery: he plans to feed his new family by “running a comics shop”. Because that career path worked out so well for Mr. Howard, right? No wonder Mallory is looking daggers at him, while protectively holding her “babies” away from this loser. Cody would pin his family’s future on his ability to acquire and resell the most collectible comic book in history.
The “graded and slabbed” lingo suggests that comics fanboy Batiuk has learned a little bit more about preserving collectible comics since the “Starbuck Jones” arc…you wouldn’t just throw Action Comics #1 in a safe…
Quasarnova!
I’ve been making a case for Cody-as-modern-day-teenage-Les; but I doubt that Les, at the peak of his nerdiness, would ever come out with anything this douchey. Although, at the risk of offending any readers who are children of hippies: Les did grow up to name his own kid “Summer”.
Son of Stuck Funky 