Comics I Don’t Understand

It’s All Coming Back to Lila Now

Cidu Bill on Aug 29th 2009

People routinely mistake Boyd for Lila??

Filed in Bill Bickel, CIDU, Celine Dion, Meaning of Lila, comic strips, comics, humor | 16 responses so far

16 Responses to “It’s All Coming Back to Lila Now”

Elyrest Aug 29th 2009 at 03:33 pm 1

We know Boyd is gay. What we don’t know is if he likes to go out and “camp” it up” a little - maybe by borrowing some of Lila’s clothes.
Lost in A**2 Aug 29th 2009 at 03:59 pm 2

Or it’s a “blame it on the dog” kind of thing.
cheekychico Aug 29th 2009 at 04:05 pm 3

I don’t read this comic so might be way off here, but I took what Lila said to be a joke at Boyd and not that someone genuinely mistook him for her. As I have it in my head, if this strip carried on, Boyd wouldn’t understand, Lila would explain it to him with a kind of “that’s what you’d probably do because you’re camp/gay”. It could just be that’s what my friends are like but thats how I’d see it!
Tim Aug 29th 2009 at 04:35 pm 4

I guess the gag is, “No, you didn’t see me there. You were drunk and saw somebody else and thought that person looked like me.” Too much explanation for a cheap gag.
Kevin A Aug 29th 2009 at 07:24 pm 5

Tim - There are 2 different guys in the strip. (I recognized my own original interpretation in yours.)
jjmcgaffey Aug 30th 2009 at 02:34 am 6

Oh - I just assumed they were both there and she was a) pretending she hadn’t gotten drunk there and b) passing it off on him (the guy presumably saw Boyd drunk as well as Lila). I hadn’t thought of cross-dressing - I don’t recall there ever being a mention of that before.
bAT L. Aug 30th 2009 at 04:51 am 7

Maybe the two main characters were in the bar together belting out that song that night, but Boyd was doing most of the actual singing. Either that or she thinks Boyd should have hooked up with that guy instead. I can’t say for certain on this one.
Sam O'Vartea Aug 30th 2009 at 08:09 am 8

Lila and Boyd both got drunk at Sullivan’s and belted Celine Dion songs from the top of the bar, but Lila only remembers that Boyd did it. The joke is that Lila is in such deep denial about being a blackout drunk that she finds it easier to believe that someone would conflate her with Boyd than to face up to her drinking problem.
Mitch4 Aug 30th 2009 at 10:51 am 9

Sam O’Vartea’s [is there like an anagram in your handle?] explanation seems to work best. But the strip was indeed pretty confusing.
zbicyclist Aug 30th 2009 at 06:45 pm 10

I think Sam’s got it. “Lila” is sort of a guilty pleasure — it’s funny, but Lila is so fundamentally a sad character you almost feel guilty laughing at her (and it’s not with her).

At least she hasn’t started dating married men (at least as long as I’ve been reading the strip).
Digger Aug 30th 2009 at 09:09 pm 11

Elyrest nailed it. Boyd was cross-dressing.
Mitch4 Aug 31st 2009 at 12:57 am 12

I do feel sad for Lila sometimes. But at least she’s not in some kind of Batiuk universe, where I suspect she would quickly lose her job, discover she has no genuine friends besides maybe Boyd, sink into substance abuse and maybe homelessness (too proud to move in with that overbearing mother). She probably doesn’t have to pay maintenance or hosting for the Lila’s Shoe Blog — her main source of independent self-esteem — but she might have to hock her computer so updates would be hard, and in any case she couldn’t afford to keep up with each season’s new shoe scene. Whaaa, it’s too sad to contemplate further
Fandango Aug 31st 2009 at 11:05 am 13

I don’t read this comic, but looking through the archives on this site, almost every time it’s a CIDU it comes down to “gay guys are like girls haha”.
Cidu Bill Aug 31st 2009 at 12:10 pm 14

Probably right, Fandango — although I don’t think we’ve seen a single case where Boyd actually has dressed up as a woman.
Adam! Sep 1st 2009 at 12:50 pm 15

cheekychico has it
Digger Sep 28th 2009 at 04:18 am 16

Sooo, Bill — Did you catch the strips on the 23rd and 26th?