Westview High School – Page 91

Body, Can You Spare a Dime

It’s strips like today’s that make your humble scribe just want to…auughhhhh! “Body up”? A guy who’s lived his life around sports doesn’t know that it’s “buddy up”? This “meeting” between Bull, Funky and Les (and what is Les even doing here?) has degraded into a game of “Let’s Get Bull to Say Stupid Things”.

Jock-ularity

A raffle to raise money to fund the school sports programs? Are you shitting me? OK, Mr. Chamber of Commerce president, let’s “get all the businesses in town to contribute something”…I’m sure the Village Booksmith will— oh, nevermind. Maybe Komix Korner? He hasn’t paid his rent in over a year. What about Citizen Khan’s Deli? Hell, nobody’s seen him in over six months.

Today’s strip would have worked just fine as a two-panel, with Bull blurting out his “athletic supporter” remark as Funky and Les exchange knowing smirks. But how much more fun is it to have Funky patronize him, while Les looks on as if to say, “I know, right? The big oaf didn’t even get my Shakespeare reference earlier!” Stupid though he may appear, Bull at least knows when he’s being mocked.

MMM, Crepes…

billytheskink
November 15, 2011 at 11:30 am
…I think that Westview sports, girl’s basketball and band at least, will be saved, though. Probably by the sale of the Starbucks Jones 1991 collector’s edition foil-hologram cover issue 175 printed with ink containing the blood of Harrison Schmitt.

Les’ startled reaction in panel 3 must be because he thought Funky said something about “hanging the creep“

I guess there was more than one rare, valuable comic book in that vault. TB has positioned Act III Les as the gifted author, caring parent, wise teacher and sensitive ladies’ man (even though the rest of us see Les as a smug, self-absorbed schmuck). Funky’s function in Act III is the workaholic/philanthropist. Since the last time jump, the Funkster has stepped up to:

Rescue a stranded Les from NYC following Lisa’s death.
Make good on the Lisa’s Legacy proceeds that were stolen (by his son).
Sell a rare comic in order to pay the rent for his own commercial tenant, Dead Skunk Head John.

And now, when all appears lost for Westview’s high school sports programs, Funky once again descends from the rafters, checkbook in hand, to somehow save the day.

We Have Heard the Chimes at Midnight

That Shakespeare Halloween costume must have gone to Les’ head. Did he really expect Bull to pick up on a quotation from Henry IV Part II?

Quota-Bull

Screw football, boy’s basketball, and all other Westview sports: everybody knows that the Lady Scapegoats basketball team reigns above all other sports teams, thanks of course to Summer “Specialest Snowflake” Moore. Whatever will capture the imagination of the Westviewvians now that there’s no more girls’ hoops?

Re: panel 3: “You can stack the deck all you want…but chance gets the last deal.” I thought the whole point of “stacking the deck” was to eliminate chance. Maybe TB is really just tipping the Funky fedora to his fellow cartoonist Chance Browne?