Tag: Westview High School

Ro-bite-a Barkburn

Bullet points for today’s strip!

    • Today’s Breast Cancer Awareness PSA comes courtesy of Cayla, who is performing a self-exam and wearing a pink shirt in panel 1.
  • Also in P1, TB didn’t put much effort into drawing Becky’s face or hair, but as always, he gets That Empty Sleeve just right.
  • Westview’s red Scapegoat mascot, aka Satanic Snoopy, makes its second appearance in as many days.
  • According to Linda, Roberta now is trying to prohibit not just our nameless gay boys but all same-sex couples from partaking in prom.

Blackburn, Fly

Though her face is contorted with rage, and though she’s speaking forcefully enough to generate little “noise lines” in front of her mouth, Roberta musters enough restraint to delicately refer to our two gay students as “a same-sex couple”. It’s doubtful that in real life someone who’d fly into such a rage over this would have that much self control. Principal Nate is one of the rare FW characters with any kind of backbone, and surely he could relate to being discriminated against. You’d expect him to throw this idiot (and her husband) out of his office. Instead, he just looks…tired.

Raging Roberta

The fired-up Mrs. Blackburn marches into Nate’s office to express her displeasure. From Cayla’s blasé reaction, it appears that everyone who seeks an audience with the principal does it by storming in and making demands.

I’m beginning to find Mr. Blackburn even more aggravating than Mrs. Blackburn. Right or wrong, least she’s capable of expressing emotion. All he’s doing is standing around with that stupid camcorder.

I'll Get You, My Pretties!

I know what you’re thinking: “In Thursday’s strip, Roberta was putting up a poster on the wall to Jinx’s right…Friday, we don’t see her, and then today she’s standing at the other end of the ticket table…and her outfit has changed from blue to red!” Don’t be so quick to blame Batiuk’s sloppy continuity, reader. Take a look at that face! Those beady eyes, the flat beak, that wart on her…oh, that is her chin. Roberta Blackburn is clearly a witch! Even her surname is dark and evil. She simply, magically materialized around the corner, the better to spy on our unknowing teens…

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Oh Prom-ise Me

I wonder if TB will even bother to give them names…Promageddon kicks off in earnest today as we finally meet our same-sex prom couple. Too bad the Batom Inc. Pulitzer Publicity Machine has ruined for the faithful readers what would have been FW’s first truly surprising moment since…forever. And it’s not Cody and Owen, nor Summer and Keisha, nor Wedgeman and Chest Hardslab: if you had “two heretofore unseen anonymous generic teens” in the Gay Prom Pool, you’re a winner! No “coinkydink” there.