Tag: Les

Autoboregraphy

SoSFDavidO here for the next two weeks, takin’ the reins! Here’s today’s strip, in which Mason, having realized the sorry lump of half-man sitting across from him actually lost his wife after an extended illness, looks amused as hell.

What in the world is he smiling about? It can’t be his own cold-cribbed comment, whatever that means. Was there some part between “Lisa’s Story” and “The Other Shoe” where Les and Lisa adopted a unicycle-riding bear and ran a wacky New Zealand B&B? Because that’s how amused Mason looks.

Ego Driven

SoSFDavidO here for the next two weeks, takin’ the reins! In today’s strip, Mason, the actor who’s got the unenviable task of playing Les Moore in the upcoming cancer drama Lust for Lisa makes the mistake of asking our humble writer to talk about his favorite topic: himself.

I only hope Les is honest.

Well, you see, Mason, I’m a self-centered, arrogant prick who uses other people as footstools to get what I want, belittling everyone from student I’m supposed to be educating to my own family members. And speaking of that, I have a daughter and daughter-in-law who I haven’t thought of in over two years because their personal achievements were starting to overshadow my own.

Mason is going to want a new agent by the time this is all over.

Les Do Lunch

SoSFDavidO here for the next two weeks, takin’ the reins! It looks like we’re back in Hollywood for more insights into the makings of a TV movie about cancer in Today’s strip.

“Grab a bite to eat”?! People in California “Do lunch”. Trust me, I know, I live there and it annoys the heck out of my Midwestern family to the point of me consciously trying not to say it but it’s impossible.

I can’t imagine what Mason could possibly have to talk to Les about other than: “I just thought I should spend time with a world-class putz as yourself before I attempted to play one.”

Puff the Magic Wagon

Link to today’s strip.

I just have to shake my head at Holly.  Riding around in a cart is “a good idea”?  I guess it could be fun, and it gets you out into the open air, away from the human-stuffed Comic Con anchovy tin…it just doesn’t strike me as something she’d enjoy, and it definitely doesn’t strike me as something John would suggest.  It looks like something Tom Batiuk saw somewhere and said, “Hey, I gotta use that.”

If he were a far more interesting person than we’d been led to believe, I’d think John would suggest going to see Homestar Runner’s skull in the background there in the first panel on the left.  Or going to eat at Buster’s Crab.  (Can you believe I didn’t get that for a couple of minutes?  I’m getting senile.)

Physical activity for these three would be a choice of last resort.  And maybe that’s how this happened.  Maybe all sorts of suggestions were made, and Holly sighed about all of them, and Harry was no help at all, fitfully moaning into his blanket, and John, internally screaming from boredom, finally saw this cart thing, and pointed, and that’s how this strip came into being.  Another deadline met, Mr. Batiuk!  Whew!

Oh, and the answer to your question, John, is no.  None of them are helping you at all.  You’ll die alone and afraid, not knowing what’s happening to you.  Enjoy!