You know what? I like today’s strip! I like it because in recreating a couple Act I scenes, TB has actually recalled the cartoony style of that period. Funky, Les and Crazy Harry, Holly and Cindy are their old 70s and 80s selves again. The punchlines are nothing to write home about, but I’ll settle for gentle humor over hamfisted melodrama any day of the week.
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.
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.
Makes. No. Sense. The food in the Westview cafeteria is so bad (How bad is it?) that the students are in no hurry to load their trays and eat. In fact, Nerdlinger there in the varsity jacket (didn’t know the Debating Team got varsity jackets) is already retching in disgust. The teachers, though, smile, grab their trays, and muscle the students out of the way in their haste to get to that Meatloaf Surprise.
sourbelly
March 31, 2011 at 12:57 am
Oh, OK, I get it. Mallory didn’t reject Cody because he’s a greasy, creepy, smarmy piece of crap. She rejected him because she’s a stuck-up bitch!
Not only that, she’s also materialistic to the point where the mere suggestion of a threat to her accustomed lifestyle triggers a fainting spell.
Boy, TB’s all over the place this week, huh? In the interest of continuity, I’ve reworked today’s panel 2 so it flows a little better from yesterday’s strip:
Son of Stuck Funky 
