OK, now it’s Nate’s turn to be incredulous. Odie and Cohen’s idea of making the robot “look really cool” is to haphazardly bolt a football helmet on top of it. They actually succeed in making the robot look less cool. And in what sense of the word is this a “spinoff”, Cody? It’s more of a kludge.
Tag: random students
Pimp My Robot
OK, well, my query from yesterday’s post has been answered: the boys are not in the Technology Club. Rather, they are in the “Special Effects Art Class”. This sounded even more implausible than a high school comic book club, so I set to Googlin’…and found the “[o]nly school district in the nation to offer [a] high school Visual Effects Art Program“…the Berea (Ohio) City School District, about twenty miles from TB’s home in Medina.
Hassle With the Castle
It’s already November and we’ve yet to meet a single student other than the perennial Sophmores Cody and Owen. Oh, wait! One of these faceless slumping shadows has been given a name!
Castle. Are we supposed to care about this guy? Are we going to find out he’s a regular at the Comix Corner and the love child of Lisa and DSH or are we never going to see him again!?
When It Rains We Snores…
Sourbelly: Meanwhile, you’re not missing anything in this strip. More “jokes” about high school marching bands marching in bad weather. For the TRILLIONTH time, I have to ask: Why is this supposed to be funny???
Sorry, Sourbelly, it looks like you’re going to have to ask a trillion and one!
It’s raining during another Battle of The Bands. Because band competitions happen outside, when it rains, marchers get wet. Somewhere there’s humor in this, or at least, 35 years ago, it was somewhat able to elicit a slight chuckle from the hardest core of band directors who have had rain affect any band competition they may have been in.
This sort of thing might be cute in a local band fundraising coupon flyer or something but for the most part it’s retread over schlock. Bill Watterson and Gary Larson are looking more and more like geniuses for leaving at the top of their game.
BLAM!
So the cash-strapped Westview football can shell out between four and seven grand for a football helmet tunnel to give the team “some real class” (because “real class” is what wins football games). And from the looks of panel 4, they inflated it with…highly flammable hydrogen? It took me a long while to discern that those aren’t leaping flames but rather letters spelling out “BLAM!” Of course, by the final panel, things aren’t as bad as they looked (unfortunately). Evidence found at the scene will later reveal the blast to be the result of sabotage by last Sunday’s player-turned-ballboy Jason Williams!
Son of Stuck Funky 