Woo, the 200th strip!
This strip is one of the favorites of my mom and I hope you like it too.
One of these excuses was actually used by one of my classmates when I was still going to school. Oh, and Larisa refers to a different excuse in the last panel as the “true” one. This does not mean that it must be actually true, of course. 😉
- Caption: Biology
- Teacher: Why didn’t you do your homework, Larisa?
- Larisa: I did, but my father ate it. As part of his performance art project “JUST EAT IT!”
- Caption: Geography
- Larisa: I’m sorry, but the government of Malta has prohibited the release of my homework since it contains information that threatens the national security of the country.
- Caption: English
- Larisa: You see, we’re currently fixing up our house and my homework got sealed in somehow while
repapering my room.
- Caption: History
- Larisa: I didn’t have the time to do it since I had to help the NSA with the test of their latest project. It’s based on super-secret tracking technology and waffles.
- Caption: Math
- Larisa: Liar!! You said I’d never have to do homework again if I kept our affair a secret!
- Larisa: I know what you’re thinking, but one of my excuses was actually true!
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Oh and I actually thought the 1st one might be the true one 🙂
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I think the second is most likely, but I SOOOOOOOO want it to be the first one!
Larissa is the best <3
And, btw, I think the 2nd one is true 😉
I vote on the excuse for History to be the true one… only because I’m hungry and that excuse sounds like a tastey conspiacy. 😉
This is professional procrastination, when you spend more time thinking on the excuses for not doing your work than actually doing it. 😛
This is quite possibly the funniest strip you’ve written.
Props.
Nice one.
Math and history are tied for the first place imo. 🙂
I really hope Biology is the true one, but I guess English has the higher chance.
Ok, I am in official fear of which one may be the true one. Knowing Larisa, however, then they may all contain at least a little bit of truth…
Holy flaming crap that’s funny!
knowing Larisa I bet it’s the math one. however the only one that sounded real was the English one.
My bet’s on History. Let’s face it, only Larissa could get ahold of top secret government maps.
… well, maybe Ye Thuza could, too.
Pure win 😀
I’m putting my money on the Geography excuse, but I’m also willing to bet that we’ll never find out 😀
My guess is that English is the one that happened to Novil, while Larisa refers to Geography.
Obviously, the excuse that is true is the one she’s telling the psychologist!
None of them are true. Even the one to the psycologist is a lie.
Both biology and English seem probable to me, that is. . .IF her father is a “performance artist”.
The 2nd one sounds like it’d be true, knowing Larisa XD
The English excuse sounds like a Chuck Palahniuk novel reference…
I like the girl Larisa is talking to in the third panel. 🙂
The English excuse seems most likely, but I give the Biology excuse a close second. Although the possibility of her lying to the guidance counselor seems very plausible too. 😉
Probably the “just eat it” excuse.
“Although the possibility of her lying to the guidance counselor seems very plausible too”
Ouch, hadn’t thought of that. +10 awesome points!
Congrats on your 200th comic! 😀 this is my favorite one! also, i think the 1st one is true somehow……
I always KNEW Malta was keeping secrets from the rest of the world…
she keep her affair secret, thats what is true…
the english one seems most plausible, the math one definitely the least. i can’t recall, though, if we’ve ever seen her father or not. i’m going to have to go through the strips and find out before i judge the possibility of the biology one.
congratulations on strip number 200!
Really, really, *really* hoping that the Math one isn’t true… here’s hoping for English.
The Math one is hilarious, but I bet she simply burned them all. Homework Arson Rulez!
I think first or third are true. Larisa acting as a saint should be an automatic tip off and the fifth is just… no. Although I do want the fourth one to be the true one. Mmmmm… waffles. I wonder how waffles could be technology advanced?
What Larisa did not say is that the things are conected 😛
She helped the NSA with their project by tranforming her Biologie homework into waffels which were eaten by her father who is currretnly in Malta.
Since Malta does not want anyone to know about the NSA-Afair, in wich her Math-teacher is involved, they prohibited the release of Larisas Geography homework.
Finally as one of the experimental tracking-waffels blew up in their house they got to fix the damage with her english-homework.
And so she had no time at all to do her history homework.
So you see? It’s all true 😀
…Or she simply burned it all…
“burn homework! BURN! Bwahhahahaha!”
As there isn’t an excuse involving fire or explosives I’m going to say the english one is the real one, but who knows…
hahahaha, great one. Classic Larisa!
If I were the math teacher, I’d feel really bad. Being branded as a pedo just because of some lame lie used as an excuse by a 11 or 12 years old pupil girl of my class … :-S
I’m considering two options:
a. She’s a really big liar. Meaning that even the shrink is getting a lie
b. She’s saying the truth to the shrink and the explanation of Geography is true.
Out of all of them, the excuse for the English one sounds most plausible.
The english one is the true one (meaning is an existing excuse), Ive heard that a couple of times when i was in school
Congrats on strip #200! I’ve been impressed with the quality of your comic from day 1.
I’d vote for the 2. panel. Why?
1. Too obvious and convenient.
2. I belive that Larisa would be able to look up “too much” info on a thing like that… although I’m not sure if she’d be willing to do so much work in the first place. XD
3. Repapering? Really Larisa? Is that the best ya could come up with? :p
4. I’d belive on half of that excuse, but tracking technology? That’s just a myth we all know that.
5. … I just know that’s not true so that’s that… Right? ^_^”
Congrats for the 200th comic man, keep up the great work. This page fits perfecty for that number. 😉
I think the English excuse is the real-world one, but the Biology excuse is the one to which Larisa refers. Considering that her dad does strange arts pieces, he may have just gathered lots of paper from his house for it, accidentally picking up Larisa’s homework.
I myself have come up with a few doozies in my time. From spending my time fighting evil underground cults to saving the world from being overrun by sentient cacti. I even had to come up with three separate excuses for one class because it was over a weekend. Oddly enough, after my second year of secondary school, my teachers stopped bothering to give me homework.
The one for math is definately the best one, props as usual for Larrissa. 😀
My favourite excuse was “I didnt feel like it” then is the teacher got mad I d just said “Just do your work” or “do what yo have to do” or my favourite, “Id never expect nothing less from you”
Once a Teacher acused me from “plagiarism” and belive you dont want to acuse a 16 yo writer boy of plagiarism, I scream, yelled, etc. I never got any more coments from the teacher, just one or two frightened looks
#1 Biology – We haven’t met her parents so, so it is plausible. May explain some things as well.
#2 Geography – Despite the seeming implausibility, I honestly could see this one being true.
#3 English – Doesn’t seem quite like Larisa, but it is chaotic enough it could be her..
#4 History – Seriously?
#5 Math – I find this one very doubtful, for some vague reason.
All lies – Intriguing idea. Seems counter to what we want to think…
My picks (from most to least likely)
Geography, Biology, English, All Lies, Math, History
I’m going with one of two:
Larissa’s one truth is the one to the guidance counselor, which makes a paradox in her statment, which make it even more funny ’cause she’s confusing the psychologist.
Larissa’s lying to them all. But I’m pretty sure that’s not it. Just not her style, ya know?
Larisa, how could you?
Why use a real excuse when you can invent a much more entertaining fake one?
Going to post here for the first time just to make a few observations.
Larisa is making numerous, increasingly desperate and imaginative excuses as to the absence of her homework, an infrequently occurring habit of another popular comic strip character.
The biology teacher bears a striking resemblance to a certain “Miss Wormwood”.
Larisa is wearing a horizontal striped shirt (though we cannot ascertain if it is indeed dark red).
It could be coincidental, but I find it more likely that the influences are showing.
Either way, it brings back great memories of cartoon strips gone by.
Will now resume lurking.
This comic is automatically awesome for the Malta reference!
…not to say that S&W wasn’t already awesome. 😀
Thinking about It Larisa is not a normal child, in an extent wich is dificult to say if she is not really sick, Schizoid, Bipolar, TLP, etc…
Im starting to suspect maybe she is not right in the head, after all her mom is disapointing and his dad is a performance artist. And she is Chaotic Neutral, so most likely she is nuts like Sade or the Joker
i bet on the math one
The Geography excuse is entirely realistic. It sounds like it was quoted off a BBC report I heard yesterday.
English works well too.
If she didn’t like her Math teacher she could have gone with Math and done the rest of her homework. Muahaha.
Biology appears to have been written for lulz. She’d probably have gone with a different delivery, which would take 3 or 4 frames but work better.
You know about History.
Novil has stated that there are reasons why Larisa acts as she does. Presumably beyond the simple “she’s not right in the head” sort.
It’s totally the geography one!