Westview High School – Page 98

How Can I Miss You When You Won't Go Away?

O.B. Dan
June 24, 2011 at 6:33 am

Station Wagon Susie is not gone, not by any stretch of the imagination.

Nope, first she needs to pack up her belongings. Les pops in to share a little chuckle over the whole “being forced to resign in disgrace” thing. What should be an awkward, regretful farewell turns into another smirkfest. Les looks more than a little creepy in panel 3; he’s smirking so hard he resembles a bespectacled Jack Nicholson. Les looks like he’s about to bend Susan over a desk.

Hot Ellipses

Weird, lazy punctuation in the first two panels of today’s strip…“Susan is resigning, dot, dot, dot…” “She shouldn’t have to, dot, dot, dot…” And come on, Cayla: like you’re not happy to see Susan go? Meanwhile, the Unabomber returns in the last panel. Meh, just…meh.

Career Sue-icide

TheDiva
June 19, 2011 at 2:01 pm

…[Batiuk] can indulge in Les heroically facing his strawman accusers, while Cayla stands by her man and Susan ultimately takes the blame and willingly sacrifices her career so Les’ will survive.

Not sure if TheDiva peeked ahead to today’s strip, but I don’t imagine there could be any other outcome, since Batiuk can’t allow our “Absen-teecher of the Year” to become embroiled in such scandal. I really want to interpret Susan’s dispassionate demeanor as a prelude to a psychotic episode where, realizing at last that Mr. Moore can never be hers, she takes out half of Westview before offing herself. But that would be too entertaining, not to mention it would also fullfill O.B. Dan’s TGF prophecy. Most likely, Susan Smith Westbrook will vanish from this strip just as abruptly as she reappeared.

Subordi-Nate

So Susan has also been summoned to Principal Nate’s office, and Nate’s waving a blank piece of paper and giving them hell, throwing in a completely random climate-change reference just to keep it 1/4″ from reality. Before Les can give his side, which I’d really be interested in hearing, Susan goes into her dead-eyed zombie mode and takes the fall.

Summoned

For lack of anything new or interesting to comment upon today, let us focus on Principal Nate’s messenger. I don’t know if it’s the custom in real-world high schools, but apparently students at Westview are pressed into various and sundry clerical positions.Which must really suck for students such as our Miss Generic Brunette, as evinced by her disdainful expression, terrible posture, and the way she’s holding the message from Nate like it’s one of Cody’s discarded Kleenex.