Les’ yellow shirt – Page 43 – Son of Stuck Funky

Approach the Bench

Epicus Doomus
May 10, 2011 at 12:43 am
Remember his “book tour interviews” arc where the interviewers clearly never even read his book? it’ll be exactly like that, only with shallow, money-grubbing “Hollywood folk” in place of Radio Ron and etc….it’ll be a ponderously long arc resulting in Les refusing to capitalize on, alter or trivialize Lisa’s Story for fame or financial gain, which is pretty ironic when you think about it.

billytheskink
May 10, 2011 at 12:25 pm
…While I agree that this is a likely scenario, Epicus, I think it’s possible that this storyline ends a bit differently. Les may pull the ultimate smug-tactic and refuse the option before it gets to that point in order to preserve the “sanctity” of Lisa’s Story’s or whatever.

John
May 10, 2011 at 5:56 pm
…Les had absolutely no problems with exploiting Lisa’s death in prose form. Having him all conflicted and cautious about a cinematic version seems rather odd.

Yes, ol’ Spanky does seem to be conflicted, and the more I think about it, I can definitely see Les just saying no to Hollywood, Summer’s opinion be damned. Maybe that’s wishful thinking on my part, because yeah, I’m imagining a whole drawn out “Making of Lisa’s Story: the Movie” arc, going on for months, with TB getting all the details wrong…I couldn’t take that.

It’s hard to tell what exactly is happening in panel 3. Has Ghost Lisa failed to manifest? Whenever Les “talks” to her, we see her too. But today Les looks very alone. Has Lisa not only gone from his eyes, but from their favorite park bench too? Has she at long last been exorcised?

O.B. Dan
May 10, 2011 at 3:14 am
Les’ ~~final book of the Bible~~ non-fiction book is about to move to a new level of media greatness…the followers, disciples, and apostles are gathered at The Grounded One’s feet…Lisa is about to be beatified…

Ladies and gentlemen, The Grand Finale as I described it is back on track.

Dan, my friend, I admit to being one of those who scoffed when you began suggesting that TB was working towards TGF…but when you yourself started to doubt that eventuality, I felt a little sad. It’s good to hear you declare that it may yet come to pass. From your lips to TB’s ears!

Bingo, Shakespeare

“Are we still going to be allowed to talk with you now that Hollywood has come calling? Because, you know, even before this movie option thingy, you were already an insufferable egomaniacal prick. Oops, was that last part out loud?”

Could Be a Movie Deal Here. Or Not.

John
May 10, 2011 at 5:50 pm

…See, an option (despite what Tom [Batiuk] thinks and is depicting in-strip this week) does NOT mean the studio plans to actually make the darn movie! All it does is make sure one can’t sell the story to anyone else while they decide whether or not they want to put it into development.

Les (and TB) are a little slow on the uptake regarding what “optioned” means, and Apple Annie’s explanation clears things up not one bit. I guess “straight-to-cell-phone” is one notch below “straight-to-DVD”? Who knows? Even if the movie never gets made, though, Les does stand to see a nice chunk of change (and his agent slash publicist will get her cut). Maybe he’ll be able to afford one of those newfangled cordless phones.

You Got Optioned

Annie has actually insisted that Les sit down before she tells him the news, and Les dutifully complies. Since Les is new to the literary biz (remember, this is only his first second book), he doesn’t understand what “optioned” means. His glib reference to the Cleveland Indians is intended to be funny, see, because Les is so terrible at sports. Or maybe he’s confused: Les hasn’t been optioned, his book has been optioned. By Hollywood!

Tales of the Unlikely

Jeffcoat Wayne
May 6, 2011 at 12:17 pm

…[S]ince Funky has become such a non-entity in this strip, I’d like it if Batiuk just renamed the damn thing “Tales of the Unlikely”. If this week wasn’t bad enough, next week is as good a time as ever to rename the strip once and for all.

You said it! What’s worse than another week of more Les? More of Les’ friggin’ book tour! I don’t have the time or inclination to research bottle feeding’s link to adult insecurity (and neither does Batiuk), but if one exists, then Les is the poster boy for LaLeche League.