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Way to Go, Ohio

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Young Les, who retroactively grows handsomer by the day, gazes out over the mighty Cuyahoga and plans his “getaway”. This would be much more poignant if we didn’t know that his post-college trajectory would land him right back in Westview!

Bonus Location Footage! Our Kent, Ohio correspondent crisis du jour has once again provided pics of the actual locations in today’s strip! Les’ reverie unfolds not very far from the KSU campus.

Pufferbelly Restaurant
(behind Les in p1)
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The old Bisslers building and the bridge
over the Cuyahoga (panel 2)
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Moore than This

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Tom Batiuk Les Moore and his old college pal share a sepia-toned memory. Ronnie’s present-day wizened appearance belies the fact that she once was a hipster coed who drove a bitchin’ VW Bug.

Les’ comment in panel 3 sent me to look up the definition of “cocksure” (I’ll leave the dick jokes to everyone else):

  1. feeling perfect assurance sometimes on inadequate grounds
  2. marked by overconfidence or presumptuousness :cocky

…so the “punchline”, while not funny, certainly has the ring of truth.

Update:
Reader “crisis du jour” has very helpfully pointed out that today’s scene plays out on the campus of Kent State. He even included a picture of White Hall, the building in the background.

Ruh-roh!

Again: in the interest of full disclosure, I never served in the military, and have nothing but the utmost respect for those who have. That said…we know that in the considerable amount of time spent by Wally “in the shit”, he was nearly blown up by a landmine, survived a chopper crash, and spent God knows how many years as a POW. But what incident seems to haunt him the most? The time that he nearly killed a young civilian. Fortunately, Buddy’s PTSD-sense begins to tingle, causing his ears to fly up; he joins his Master on the bunk and Wally can resume catching some “Zzzz’s”.