Westview High School – Page 95

It's Called a Flair for Writing

I had no idea that online term paper mills had become so specialized that you could select not just a topic but also the grade that you were shooting for. Meanwhile, does anybody get the joke here? Is there even a joke to be gotten? And who’s this kid in the background?

Hi, Jinx

Maddie makes the mistake of confiding in Jinx, who blurts out her secret loud enough to send Curly Blue Haired Kid looking for a faculty member to snitch to.

Inspiration Meets Desperation

Hey Bull: maybe you could save the school some money by eliminating alternate-color helmets for away games!

As the ‘goats gird their loins for the game, Bull waxes philosophical, quoting Lily Tomlin but also pretty much summing up the day-to-day lonely hell that is life in Westview, Ohio.

Scapeghosts

sourbelly: “…it looks like…Cory’s face has been run over by a steamroller.” Looks like that steamroller has struck again!

“Ghost? Haunt? Get it?” Anybody else making that statement would be credited with possessing some wit. But since the speaker is brain-dead Bull Bushka, Les immediately assumes that it must be an inadvertent Yogi-ism.

Quiz-ling

By my reckoning, today’s Cory Winkerbean sighting is the first since May of 2010. The strip’s most underexposed and therefore most interesting character comes off the bench to play hatchet-faced straight man to Maddie the Hat, who appears to be wearing Mr. Moore’s yellow shirt.