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Endless Mom

A tip of the Son of Stuck Funky mortarboard to guest blogger David O for letting me have a week off!

Sgt. Saunders
June 3, 2012 at 9:15 am
…I feel sure a tape from Our Lisa the Howling Succubus is just around the corner for Butch. Graduation? Lis won’t be able to skip graduation.

Sure enough, Ghost Mom recorded a tape for this occasion. Summer dons cap ‘n’ gown (which have magically turned from white to red) and leans in close to listen to her own personal commencement speech as Les lurks nearby to bask in St. Lisa’s heavenly cathode radiance.

It's Called Cloning.

Things sure are moving quickly in this story arc; today’s strip makes it obvious that _____ has gotten a scholarship to Kent State!

Now, I have to admit, _____ has always been one of my favorite characters for the following reasons:

1. Despite being raised by a single parent, _____ has been able to really push herself and become a star basketball player on her high school girl’s basketball team; so much so that Kent State has invited her to the campus and she’s even been able to get a scholarship out of it.

2. ____ is incredibly cool about the fact her parent has entered into a mixed marriage, and is even very close to her new “sister”, _____.

3. ____ May be a girl, but she’s all tomboy at heart, and isn’t afraid to throw down with the boys.

4. _____ loves Montoni’s pizza! Thankfully, she has a parent that works there so she can get a good table. She also has parental figures that work at the local high school that she attends.

Seriously, is there any reason to have Keisha around if she’s just going to be Summer II? How much more interesting would it have been if Keisha didn’t get a scholarship to Kent State and had to slog through classes at a local community college? There’d be resentment, drama, jealousy over Summer’s charmed life and Keisha’s valiant struggle to validate herself…

But what do I know; I’m not a writer, apparently.

A non-turn of events!

A single phone call reveals what a most snarkers and my long-dead grandmother suspected; Summer will be going to Kent State. With most folks a lot more wary of the value of a college education I’m not sure Les should be making his smirk/smug satisfaction face.

In a development that should surprise no one, Summer II got invited to Kent State as well, causing Cayla to break out into her best hatchet-face.

Another day, another new character!

Whoops! Wait, what I thought was a new character is actually just Les in a non-yellow shirt. The effect is rather jarring, like seeing Charlie Brown in a shirt with veritical stripes instead of horizontal ones.

The week is almost over; a little late to be starting a new arc but we’re off and running. To no one’s surprise, (though it’s very, VERY late to be doing so) colleges all over the country are clamoring for the 5’6″ girl who can dunk.  Well, one college anyway. Most snarkers already know exactly which college it’s going to be.

I’m guessing it’ll be the college that allows Summer to continue working at Montoni’s part time while living at home and assistant-coaching at the high school after she climbs Mount Killimanjaro and goes on the road with her dad’s book tour.

 

A glitch in the matrix

Someone refresh my memory but have we not already done this joke!? It was either this or a very slight variation of it.  I’m reminded with strips like these that we longtime snarkers might be recalling the one-a-day gags as being funnier than they were.

In any case, time, or what we understand to be some rudimentary construct of time, seems to be advancing in a forward, almost coherent movement for once. I couldn’t tell you for the life of me when Summer got her driver’s license (or if she even did) but a mess of students are about to graduate from high school, leaving us with Cody, Owen and a gaggle of nameless, faceless students with pencil wrists and melting faces.