Baldo by Hector D. Cantú and Carlos Castellanos for September 13, 2023

I believe he asked a yes-or-no question.

Maybe I’m stupid, but I don’t get it.

Are Javier and Moe from Clavin and Hobbs cousins?

Sorry Javier, that would be a hard pass.

Gracie, sometimes being smart means curating your vocabulary to match your current audience.

Pen him a missive.

He is blissfully free of the ravages of intelligence

If she helps him reform, this could be the beginning of a beautiful brains-and-brawn team-up!

Generally “beyond pleasurable” would mean extremely pleasurable.

This could be the beginning of a very bad situation.

There’s some level of malice that’s pleasurable? No! No! No! It’s notoriety that can be pleasurable.

Translation: WRONG!

You got that right…

“You ain’t digging what I’m laying down, you dig?”

Just the facts ma’am

C’mon, Gracie. Javier may be unpleasant but no one likes a sesquipedalian.

“I like girls who use big words, " said no bully ever!

Gracie is not known for her one-word answers.

I have never understood guys who claim women as ‘theirs’ when the girl hates their guts.

Javier likes Gracie? Why? He’ll never understand her.

Most students find it pleasurable that you are mean. That seems like a strange thing to say.

Is it possible that our author messed up that sentence? It just isn’t coherent.