The high school flashback arc comes full circle, back to Les’ main crush, Kelly. Good luck striking up a “casual” conversation with her, Les, after she’s already seen her name written obsessively all over your notebook.
Tag: Funky
Rap-porch-ment
Funky arrives at Moore Manor to find Les sitting on the porch swing in that peculiar splay-legged position of his.
“Hey.” (Douchebag.)
“Hey.” (Tubby)
“I screwed up.” (Get over yourself, you thin-skinned poseur…)
(Nah, buddy, I deserved it. Besides, what’s a little good-natured ball-busting between old friends?.) “Yes you did”
(I’m afraid my obese ass will break your porch swing, so I better just stand.) “Can I sit?”
“Sit.” (Kneel!)
“So tell me about it.” (Get over yourself, you thin-skinned poseur…)
All That Azz
bayoustu
June 9, 2011 at 1:32 am…TB is just rusty at depicting anything other than despair, dejection, fear (and/or loathing), grief, pain, consternation, anguish, hopelessness, and — of course — cancer.
True, Stu! But on the other hand: what other cartoonist renders middle-to-late-middle-age-male ass better than our Tom Batiuk? Just look at the back porches on Bull, Tony, and, in today’s strip, Funky:
No Child Les Behind
Crazy Harry and Funky are laughing way too hard about Les’ “problems”, but Les’ bizarre reference to the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 instantly turns their mirth to bafflement. Sure, it’s all fun and games until somebody loses an eye walks out in a huff.
Better call the “Wahhhh-mbulance”…Les has got hurt feelings!
Les Needs Women
Today’s strip repeats the formula from yesterday’s: flashback vignette from the “Classic Era” followed by a friend of Les saying something that nobody in the real world would ever say. “Rethink my entire world view”? “Game-changer on a galactic scale”? The hyperbole-as-punchline is irritating enough, but made even moreso by the fact that Les’ lifelong friends are completely uninformed about his relationship status.
Son of Stuck Funky 
