Tag: Darin

Re-Pete Teenage Years

Oh boy, everything in today’s strip not only unsurprisingly goes back to comics but even features what appears to be a 18 year old Pete getting the chance to haul Darin in to the clutches of the evil Hollywood.

“We’re ready to get started on the story boards, Pete?” I wouldn’t be surprised if they didn’t film first and then do storyboards later, given Tombat’s understanding of Hollywood.

So now we have Darin, an MBA, working at a pizza joint, raising a kid, developing apps and sidelining a job storyboarding for a major film for Hollywood. Yes, this is a normal person, sure. At this rate, by next year he’ll also be doing anesthesiology and training circus seals.

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Moore Moping

Really? A 4th plague is about to be unleashed upon the world in form of Les’s literary scribblings? Today’s strip is the first tease we’ve gotten at this, and Darin is grinning like he just saw The Last Guardian preview at comic-con. If his last books are any indication, this book could take years to write. Yep, we’ll probably be in for the treat watching Les deal with writer’s block, pushy publisher dealines and rewrites well into 2018.

Sophomoric Sighings

Oh boy, more puns, which are, aside from smirks and bitching, pretty much the currency of Westview. Today’s strip gives us a confusing insight into Darin while serving up a lame, lame pun that’s been done so much better before.

Is he an MBA hotshot app developer who helped Funky develop an app or a full-fledged pizza employee? And when does he have time for all this work when he’s supposed to be raising a baby, too? What happened to Les’s neck in panel three!?

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Real life, which is 1,000 times funnier than this strip

Fun-ky CancerCancer

SoSfDavidO here! Hmm, it appears that the word “fun” is being tossed around again in reference to Darin illustrating the long battle his mother had with the cancer that eventually killed her. Today’s strip is really a head-scratcher. Usually I’m in the “Ok, Tom, we get it, cancer sucks” crowd” but this week’s crop of strips have flipped around to make cancer seem like it has all the medical annoyance an impacted wisdom tooth.

On top of that, is any of this stuff even cleared with Les’s publisher? I assume Les doesn’t really own the rights fully to Lisa’s Story anymore since he sold the book. I’m sure this being Westview that things will all somehow work out but dumping this box of doodles on your publisher’s doorstep and expecting a book deal out of it seems like a long, long stretch.

Edit: Actually, it would appear that the “How Les Met Cayla” is what Darin has been illustrating this whole time. Sorry for the mixup! *slaps self!*

Cancerous Attitude

I guess drawing a comic about someone slowly dying of cancer is a lot of fun because from the looks of things in today’s strip Boy Wonder can’t get enough! If it’s not too much trouble, maybe Les can get crippling gout so we can have a comic about that, too.

Obviously, things get a bit meta here with the existing Lisa’s Legacy book existing within the comic. It’s amazing how fast this thing was crapped out compared to how long the book Les was working on and the yet-unmade movie is taking.