Susan – Page 11 – Son of Stuck Funky

Ménage à Twit

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It was Memorial Day when TB left off with the Les/Cayla/Susan triangle, and after a summer of time-travel and PTSD-afflicted dating (but ironically, no Summer), he picks it up again. The top-right panel is quite well-drawn, and portends much drama. Taken by itself, there are many ways one can go with it: is Cayla driving past Montoni’s when she happens to spy Susan walking in? Or is she parked outside, lying in wait? In the next panel we learn that both ladies have been summoned to the pizzeria by Les, “The Man”. Of course, Susan has made it a point to arrive first.

Note the ladies’ astonished expressions in the penultimate panel at Les’ un-ironic use of the phrase “long and hard”.

What Did Happen?

I guess getting detention on the last day of school means the poor kid is going to have to sit in the classroom for the next three months? Susan appears so baffled by this turn of events that in panel 2, she momentarily develops a Jay Leno-esque jaw.

Super Sunday

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“It’s Susan Smith, grown up and pretty! She’s winning Les away from me by reminding him that he saved her life when she attempted suicide!”

I think today’s space would have been put to much better use depicting a wild cafeteria catfight to the death between Cayla “the Crusher” and Susan “the Snake”, as Les appreciatively looks on, wearing that smug smirk we see on his disembodied head at the top of today’s comic.

Anyone sitting here?

The school lunchroom is an absolutely ideal setting for what had damn well better be the final chapter of this juvenile love triangle. It took twenty (thirty?) years, but Les the Nerd is now Les the Stud. Get in line, ladies. Cayla: now do you get it? Les: Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last ? Have you left no sense of decency ?

Relent-Les

This woman will not take no for an answer. Lunch room duty? No problem!

“Thanks, but sadly…I’ve still got diahrrea from our dinner the other night at Toxic Taco.” “No problem! Just bring the chapter and we’ll work on it in the crapper!”

“Thanks, but sadly…I really haven’t spent much time with Cayla lately. I think I should see if she’s around.” “No problem! I tied her up in the janitor’s closet!”

“Thanks, but sadly…you’re really getting to be a pain in the ass.” “No problem! I’ll try killing myself again and you’ll have to rescue me!”