Lisa’s Legacy – Page 9 – Son of Stuck Funky

Run-Up to the Run

“We’re here to help with the preparations for the Lisa’s Legacy Run™,” Cayla helpfully exposits. Well, it’s a safe bet she won’t be assigned to sandwich-making duty. Already Les is in such a tizzy that he can’t even put down that box (which is probably not as heavy as he makes it look) to greet his fiancé and her daughter.

It's Called Running

Today’s strip feels like two daily strips, one stacked upon the other, and neither one being funny. It also feels like a rehash of the July 10 strip, only this time Les wears the Lisa’s Legacy t-shirt, and Funky has gotten even fatter; his panel 4 silhouette resembles the Michelin Man.

I Am the Eggman

Les has dispensed with the jerky questions and now proceeds to his list of demands: “I want to be able to write the screenplay.” Sure. And maybe you’d like to portray yourself while you’re at it, you egomanic? Ann has no doubt heard such highfalutin’ assumptions before, and quickly puts Les’ formidable ego in check by equating his masterwork with mere henfruit.

Funky Cold Medina

I guess TB needs to remind readers once a year that Funky is a recovering alcoholic. Although taken with the strip from two Sundays back, could he be setting Funky up for a relapse? The Winkerbeans waltzed to that tune with the line “Till [sic] I can gain control again…” Is he losing control? Are Funky’s demons “exercising” him?

1/4″ from Reality Dept: the gazebo figured so prominently in the past week’s strips, and is rendered so lovingly in today’s; I took a notion that TB must be copping a real-life structure somewhere in, oh, I don’t know…Ohio? Sure enough, a bit of Googling yields pics of the real-life gazebo in Medina Square in TB’s hometown. And true Batiuk completist collectors may pick up a CD of the Medina Community Band‘s 2009 “Salute to Sousa” concert; cover artwork by you-know-who.

Shut Up huff and Run puff

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“Don’t look back: something might be gaining on you.” Funky disregards the advice of the great Satchel Paige, and frets about the old lady and the stroller mom who are hot on his heels. He should be more worried about Masky McDeath catching up with him.

As he did last week with the name “Jitters Coffee Shop”, TB once again manages to squeeze in the link to lisaslegacyfund.org. Oh well, I guess it’s for a good cause.