School Records: Making stalking easier since 1998
Curtis, 10/8/05
“Oh, yes! You’re the child that insisted that you were in a relationship with her despite her denials, and threatened her with violence if she dressed ‘inappropriately,’ aren’t you? How dear! Yes, I’m happy to supply whatever information we have about her. Would you like the address of her new school? How about her home phone number?”
As unlikely as I find this storyline, with everyone in the school knowing about Michelle’s transfer except for the one boy who’s been psychotically obsessed with her forever, and with the school records officer freely handing out confidential information without any money even changing hands, I have to admit that I like it for a number of reasons: it showed us Curtis rendered zombie-eyed with grief; it allowed for some quite evocative art in the third and fourth panels; and it seems to finally, finally put an end to the increasingly tiresome Curtis-Michelle-Chutney triangle. Or so it seems, at least. I’m sure if there’s a way to drag it out even further, Curtis will find it.
kippetje2000
October 9th, 2005 at 10:01 pm
first. Andy Cap’s flaccid member remembered!
J.
October 10th, 2005 at 12:08 am
2nd!
yellojkt
October 10th, 2005 at 6:56 am
Unfortunately, like Aaron Hill and Dirk the Diggler, Michelle will be back. Comedy gold like the Curtis creepy stalker triangle has to be strip mined until every tail end is extracted.
Kaliflower
October 10th, 2005 at 7:34 am
Today’s Curtis proves that when one Curtiscliché is seemingly over there is always another one waiting in the wings to quickly supplant it. After Curtis is finished inexplicably watching 50s horror movies at the local temporal time shifted theater he’ll probably take Barry to his favorite clandestine store o’ ‘rap’ music that the parents ‘burn down when they find out where it is’.
Adouble
October 10th, 2005 at 8:45 am
God, another week of Brad and Toni’s lunch. Luann’s turn from crappy joke strip to crappy soap-opera strip seems to have come with a change to glacial, Apartment-3G-style pacing. It’s like watching “My Dinner With Andre”, if Wallace Shawn and Andre Gregory were replaced by two of the pre-verbal brats from “Laguna Beach”.
Jessica: I mean, you like to be comfortable and I like to be comfortable too,
but comfort can lull you into a dangerous tranquility.
Alex H.: I like that shirt.
Jessica: Thanks, but that’s not your line.
Alex H.: I like those pants.
Jessica: What? Aren’t we supposed to be talking about the nature of an examined
life? Whatever.
Alex H.: I like your face. Let’s make out.
Zorba the Geek
October 10th, 2005 at 8:48 am
Unfortunately, the little stalker already knows Michelle’s home address and phone number, since he’s always calling her or showing up at her apartment. Maybe she’s also moved and acquired an unlisted number. One can only hope.
Irina
October 10th, 2005 at 10:32 am
Nice strip summary Kaliflower, but you forgot to add that when Curtis gets home, he’s still got to berate his father for smoking; eat a whole leftover chicken, then get teased by Barry, who will promptly run to Mommy, and say that Curtis was bein’ mean to him again.
Sheila
October 10th, 2005 at 12:42 pm
And then he’ll visit the barbershop and Gunther will call him “Chalmondeley” and drop some names while telling tall tales. Yawn.
I wanna see the plot where the headless guy in the junkyard eats both the Wilkins children.
oblivious
October 10th, 2005 at 3:45 pm
i just noticed that you have blog-related hoo-hah. hoo-hah! such obcenity! that’s what my wife calls her, well, you know!
oh, as far as curtis is concerend, definitely overdone MAT.
Gradioc
October 10th, 2005 at 3:55 pm
Does Curtis’ apt building have a basement? Because I see a pit in his future “This girl will never leave us, will she precious?” And Chutney STILL won’t be able to get any action.
Mibbitmaker
October 11th, 2005 at 1:13 am
Don’t forget when his cross-eyed foreign white friend inevitably shows up again, his invisible pet will raise havoc and do its usual better job at framing Curtis than Barry can even hope to do.
I just wish the talking bed can make it into rotation again. At least for our sake; that was great mocking material.
sally
October 11th, 2005 at 10:47 am
Man, I’m bummed, because now I’ll never get to find out why Michelle dressed so badly to go to school. Here’s a chick who fancies herself a model, actress, who knows what else, but went to school dressed like a four-year-old boy headed for preschool every day. I had better fashion sense in high school — and I had no fashion sense at all. What was up with that?
Guy
October 12th, 2005 at 7:45 pm
I’m a bit weirded out at luann right now. Why did Toni become a blonde halfway through the car ride? Did brad chloroform her set her to his “liking?”