The dramatic turnaround of Westview’s girls’ basketball program has drawn some media attention, and Coach Bushka is inspired to channel Damon Wayans’ Oswald Bates character from the old Fox series In Living Color:
Tag: Westview High School
Hats a Fact, Jack
Before we really dive into the insanity that is today’s strip: isn’t Dinkle retired? Is he still on the schools’ payroll? Get a load of him, strutting right into the high school like he owns the joint, not displaying one of those clip-on ID’s that TB painstakingly draws on every teacher. Where my kids go to school, this would be verboten.
As would be the wearing of hats by students. While it’s clear that these students are just arriving to school on a cold morning, we haven’t seen Owen without that stupid chullo stuck on his head since before Halloween. (Okay, once.) So, do you reckon TB went to a mall somewhere (would have to be about a year and a half ago), noticed a couple kids wearing these hats, and made the assumption that this is what “all the kids” are into these days?
Something Wiki This Way Comes
Les’ verbal caning of Owen continues, as does Owen’s dim perception of right and wrong. To quote the late John Wayne, “…it’s gettin’ to be re-God-damn-diculous…” It’s bad enough that TB revisits the topic of internet plagiarism again and again. But he compounds the monotony with four consecutive days of sputtering Les setting up Owen for an unfunny “punchline”.
Just Not My Type
Yes, Les Moore is the avatar we love to hate, but at least give him credit today for not losing his patience and smacking the living shit out of Owen…minus a few points for referring to Owen’s choice of “typeface” instead of “font”.
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It's Called Recycling
Today’s lesson from the Cartoonist’s Studio: how to turn one unfunny gag into two!


Seriously, Mr. Batiuk? Seriously? Groundhog Day isn’t ’til tomorrow, dude.