Money panels exchanged for store credit only
I’m back from wherever it was that I was! But besides a couple insane action baseball games, looks like I didn’t miss a whole lot. Until today, of course which is just action-packed with….ugh, yeah, I can’t sell this comic as exciting, sorry. But at least there are a few things I can pretend are exciting. Like Elmer’s new goatee and experimentation with collagen lip injections…or his father’s rapid descent from cool lookin’ Vito to lame lookin’ Fredo.
The third panel is today’s money panel*…Not only do we have dialogue so stupid I’m not even going to try to explain just how stupid it is, we also have the first documented appearance of NOMAR GARCIAPARRA’S EXTREMELY WIDE SANDWICH AND CHEESE EMPORIUM, a lamp post tagged by the Valley Central vandals using both colors, and faceless Brendan-Oyl and Elmullet denting up the newest car in town, a 2001 P.T. Cruiser, by smashing in the hood with their fat asses and an industrial-sized block of cheese.
*Approximate panel value: 12 cents.
It looks more like a Mini Cooper to me. I think it’s the narrow grille.
Comment by El Santo — April 28, 2008 @ 9:45 am
I was thinking a bizarre cross between a Mini Cooper and the Scion xB (my own personal ride). But whatever it is, it’s a hell of a lot cooler than Frank 2’s fleet of Trabants.
That street scene… is that Milford, or Paris? The trees, the wide boulevards, the antique lampposts. Doesn’t look like any American town I know.
This whole Vargas Family/Immigration thing is a nice setup for a timely plot. I assum that Rubin’s gonna find a way to screw it up.
Comment by johnw — April 28, 2008 @ 10:09 am
In panel two I keep visualizing Senor Vargas saying in a Don Corleone voice “I never wanted this life for you”.
Panel three: What the hell does being Rotary Club Man of the Year has to being an illegal alien??
Comment by Regina — April 28, 2008 @ 10:12 am
I think the eatery is more likely to be titled simply “NOM” (in lolcat speak).
Comment by Scott de B. — April 28, 2008 @ 10:12 am
Speaking of goatee’s. Look out Jack Kerouac. Put one on Elmer in panel one and he could pass for Maynard G. Krebs from Dobie Gillis. Panel two..Many Mafioso were not legal citizens either. The humiliation really shows in panel three as both Elmer & Branden lose face literally.
Comment by kenzo — April 28, 2008 @ 10:17 am
I say Elmer marries Brendan in a wacky green-card plot.
Comment by Mac Thomason — April 28, 2008 @ 10:35 am
I can see why they had kept the news from young Elmer. No vault.
Comment by Gray — April 28, 2008 @ 10:38 am
Johnw: “The trees, the wide boulevards, the antique lampposts. Doesn’t look like any American town I know.”
We have a lot of small towns in my area with renovated downtowns that look like this. Usually the old main street has been converted to a pedestrian-only plaza, complete with trees, antique lamposts, and brick pavers. I looked at this and just thought that Elmer was illegally parked.
Comment by AirForbes — April 28, 2008 @ 10:45 am
If its a mini Cooper, it’s really riced up with those fatass tires. Oh, those crazy teens.
Bonus today for ginormous man-hand gripping Elmer’s left shoulder.
Any speculation as to Elmer’s real name? El Mar - the sea? Probably better than El Bote de Remos, which is how the Vargas’ presumably washed up on the shores of Milford.
Comment by julienne — April 28, 2008 @ 11:41 am
Tonight’s Lou Dobbs poll question…
Should the Milford Rotary Club continue to heap awards on illegal aliens when great Americans like Marty Moon go unappreciated?
Comment by Kevin — April 28, 2008 @ 11:41 am
Branden! Guess what! My family and I are illegal aliens. Be sure to tell only your
very closest girlfriends.
Comment by dale — April 28, 2008 @ 12:37 pm
Once Branden spreads the news, I wonder what kwazy scheme the Milford girls will concoct to not really fix this situation. And will it involve Marty Poon again?
Comment by sourbelly — April 28, 2008 @ 12:55 pm
Don’t worry about the immigration problem.
There is an ethical/moral/SPORTS issue. Is Illegal Elmer ineligible?
Will Gil tell Principal Dr. Hairbun or Mimi?
Will Mimi tell Marty?
Will Milford have to forfeit its losses and the titles it didn’t win?
And you thought this was just a comic strip for teenagers. It’s a veritable modern
morality play.
Comment by dale — April 28, 2008 @ 1:42 pm
#12 — Hopefully it will once again involve the girls softball team shaving their heads in solidarity. Because they’ll misunderstand what Brayden meant by alien and decided to walk around looking like those characters from the “Alien Nation” movie.
Comment by El Santo — April 28, 2008 @ 3:50 pm
People, people, please. The following photographic evidence will prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the mystery car is, in fact, a Mini Cooper Clubman…
http://image.automotive.com/f/cuvs/2008-mini-clubman-preps-for-fall-debut/6741448+w646+cr1+re0+ar1/2008-mini-cooper-clubman-front-right.jpg
Though considering it isn’t imported to the US, what it’s doing in Milford is a mystery to me. Maybe it’s an illegal immigrant too?
Comment by Tweeks_Coffee — April 28, 2008 @ 7:12 pm
Marty Moon is gonna pose as an Dept of Homeland Security agent?
Comment by sam — April 28, 2008 @ 8:26 pm
14: This is MILFORD. Do they really HAVE to shave their heads to look alien?
Comment by Zaq — April 28, 2008 @ 11:01 pm
Yeah Julienne, that’s an especially gnar-gantic hand in panel one, alright — and if you ignore the dialog and the “story,” this is the most sinister tableaux I’ve seen in this strip.
Poor Elmer. Why doesn’t anyone help?
Comment by Striker — April 29, 2008 @ 12:00 am
Maybe Branden can use the fact that she’s “too cute!” to win over the immigration people.
Comment by furious styles — April 29, 2008 @ 12:14 am
Maybe it’s not a giant hand, just a rumpled towel?
Comment by JanB — April 29, 2008 @ 5:09 am
Well, if they’re aliens, they came from E.T.’s planet, ’cause that’s his hand.
Comment by Striker — April 29, 2008 @ 9:23 am