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Tag: park bench
The Les You Know
smartjock
May 16, 2011 at 1:55 pm
Panel 2 has Les talking with who he imagines are “Hollywood” people. The bald guy is not Lisa, and the woman is not anyone we’ve met.
OK, now that that’s cleared up…Les continues to psych himself out of the movie deal. “They’re going to want to change it…” Yes, sunshine, change it from a book to a movie. It’s a necessary step. In the HOLLYWOOD of Les’ mind, the Philistines are already hacking away. Late Night’s Paul Shaffer (when did he get into the movie biz?) wants to revise some crucial plot points, based on “some preliminary sampling”, and Les is aghast at the suggestion. Back in the “real” world, even Lisa has had it with Doubting Les, raising her hand to hopefully deliver a much needed bitchslap.
Hollyweird
Poof! Lisa’s ghost has materialized after all, and Les proceeds to bring her up to speed on the book being optioned. But in panel two the setting abruptly shifts from the park bench to…a room…somewhere…I can’t figure out where they’re supposed to be…Les is still wearing the same clothes, but Lisa is wearing glasses and a blue jacket and has reverted to her cancer-baldness. Les’ old ladyfriend Ronnie sits between them, looking like she did in college. And and then boom, back to the park bench. Very weird!
Approach the Bench
Epicus Doomus
May 10, 2011 at 12:43 am
Remember his “book tour interviews” arc where the interviewers clearly never even read his book? it’ll be exactly like that, only with shallow, money-grubbing “Hollywood folk” in place of Radio Ron and etc….it’ll be a ponderously long arc resulting in Les refusing to capitalize on, alter or trivialize Lisa’s Story for fame or financial gain, which is pretty ironic when you think about it.
billytheskink
May 10, 2011 at 12:25 pm
…While I agree that this is a likely scenario, Epicus, I think it’s possible that this storyline ends a bit differently. Les may pull the ultimate smug-tactic and refuse the option before it gets to that point in order to preserve the “sanctity” of Lisa’s Story’s or whatever.
John
May 10, 2011 at 5:56 pm
…Les had absolutely no problems with exploiting Lisa’s death in prose form. Having him all conflicted and cautious about a cinematic version seems rather odd.
Yes, ol’ Spanky does seem to be conflicted, and the more I think about it, I can definitely see Les just saying no to Hollywood, Summer’s opinion be damned. Maybe that’s wishful thinking on my part, because yeah, I’m imagining a whole drawn out “Making of Lisa’s Story: the Movie” arc, going on for months, with TB getting all the details wrong…I couldn’t take that.
It’s hard to tell what exactly is happening in panel 3. Has Ghost Lisa failed to manifest? Whenever Les “talks” to her, we see her too. But today Les looks very alone. Has Lisa not only gone from his eyes, but from their favorite park bench too? Has she at long last been exorcised?
O.B. Dan
May 10, 2011 at 3:14 am
Les’final book of the Biblenon-fiction book is about to move to a new level of media greatness…the followers, disciples, and apostles are gathered at The Grounded One’s feet…Lisa is about to be beatified…Ladies and gentlemen, The Grand Finale as I described it is back on track.
Dan, my friend, I admit to being one of those who scoffed when you began suggesting that TB was working towards TGF…but when you yourself started to doubt that eventuality, I felt a little sad. It’s good to hear you declare that it may yet come to pass. From your lips to TB’s ears!
Lisa's Lunacy
la gata loca
November 2, 2010 at 8:07 pm
…Lesismoore is simply too in love with his image of himself to share “his” space with anyone else. Even Zombie Lisa is really just a figment of his imagination and pathological self-absorption…Zombie Lisa, when she appears, is just Les patting himself on the back…
coronation53
October 31, 2010 at 10:08 pm
No mentally healthy person is as stuck in the past as this Les is. One can give the friends there the benefit of the doubt, and assume that they do not understand what Les is seeing in his mind’s eye. If they do, they should be carrying out an intervention to help direct him to a way of overcoming his depression.
November 2, 2010 at 8:07 pm
…Lesismoore is simply too in love with his image of himself to share “his” space with anyone else. Even Zombie Lisa is really just a figment of his imagination and pathological self-absorption…Zombie Lisa, when she appears, is just Les patting himself on the back…
coronation53
October 31, 2010 at 10:08 pm
No mentally healthy person is as stuck in the past as this Les is. One can give the friends there the benefit of the doubt, and assume that they do not understand what Les is seeing in his mind’s eye. If they do, they should be carrying out an intervention to help direct him to a way of overcoming his depression.
Please, please let today’s panel 3 spell closure, not only to the “Les Finally Gets Published (Again)” story arc, but to Lisa’s ghostly presence. “Spanky” needs to choose a living, breathing, flesh and blood companion; either that, or let him to join his “favorite girl” in the afterlife. Query whether this is not Les’ sweet reverie, but rather Lisa’s own hell: condemned to spend eternity in Westview, the town that joy forgot.
Son of Stuck Funky 
