Tag: Les

Mind Is Because All of Made Up

Sgt Saunders
June 24, 2011 at 1:47 am

…By the way, I don’t think that’s Screweasy, but rather Fembot Screweasy…Tomorrow, she’ll begin to spark and shake and smoke will come out of her, and maybe some sparks will fly from her jubblies.

I was sure that Sarge was right about “Screweasy” when I saw today’s panel 3. Susan appears to be experiencing a short circuit, a stroke, or even a very heavy burtation. “Mind is…because…all…of made up.” Th’ hell? I finally figured out that she and Les are talking over each other: “You don’t have to resign because of…” “Mind is all made up.”

Besides Cayla, do you know who else will be happy to see Susan go? Whoever colors the daily strips. Susan’s bangs have always presented a coloring dilemma: where does the brown hair color end and the forehead fleshtone begin? Panel three Susan’s part goes nearly to the crown of her head, but she’s been rendered far worse (see right).

How Can I Miss You When You Won't Go Away?

O.B. Dan
June 24, 2011 at 6:33 am

Station Wagon Susie is not gone, not by any stretch of the imagination.

Nope, first she needs to pack up her belongings. Les pops in to share a little chuckle over the whole “being forced to resign in disgrace” thing. What should be an awkward, regretful farewell turns into another smirkfest. Les looks more than a little creepy in panel 3; he’s smirking so hard he resembles a bespectacled Jack Nicholson. Les looks like he’s about to bend Susan over a desk.

Career Sue-icide

TheDiva
June 19, 2011 at 2:01 pm

…[Batiuk] can indulge in Les heroically facing his strawman accusers, while Cayla stands by her man and Susan ultimately takes the blame and willingly sacrifices her career so Les’ will survive.

Not sure if TheDiva peeked ahead to today’s strip, but I don’t imagine there could be any other outcome, since Batiuk can’t allow our “Absen-teecher of the Year” to become embroiled in such scandal. I really want to interpret Susan’s dispassionate demeanor as a prelude to a psychotic episode where, realizing at last that Mr. Moore can never be hers, she takes out half of Westview before offing herself. But that would be too entertaining, not to mention it would also fullfill O.B. Dan’s TGF prophecy. Most likely, Susan Smith Westbrook will vanish from this strip just as abruptly as she reappeared.

Subordi-Nate

So Susan has also been summoned to Principal Nate’s office, and Nate’s waving a blank piece of paper and giving them hell, throwing in a completely random climate-change reference just to keep it 1/4″ from reality. Before Les can give his side, which I’d really be interested in hearing, Susan goes into her dead-eyed zombie mode and takes the fall.