Previous >>151551625Act II continues with 1993.Last time, Act I came to a close with the introduction of Sadie Summers and the football team winning a championship because all of their opponents forefeited. Les's date to te prom stood him up while Barry Balderman had a nervous breakdown leaving Les to give the valedictorian speech where he ranted about how exclusionary high school was.Act II started with Les, now a college graduate, returning to Westview High to take up a job as an English teacher. Funky, unable to find a job after graduation, started working at Montoni's while we were introduced to a few of the new high school class: Sadie, Funky's cousin Wally, and overachieving blerd Monroe Madison.
This storyline about the band marching in the inagural parade is going to have a lot of consequences mainly for this year but even well into late Act III.
I guess you can consider this a send off to both the gym rope and hall monitor gags.
Here we have the introduction of Susan Smith, the strip's favorite punching bag, figuratively AND literally. She'll play a fairly big role until her class graduates in 1998, then again in the first few years of Act III. She'll basically be trotted out whenever Batiuk wants to inject some drama but I get the impression that, for whatever reason, he seemed to have it out for her. I like her well enough but man, when you want to talk about miserable Funky characters she'll be up near the top of the list just below Wally.
Each Westview class is going to have it's lummox bully. Funky's had Bull, Wally's will be Ironhead (later Stonehead, then ffinally settling on Marblehead) Morton, Darin's will be Matt Miller, it skips Summer's because she's the (to use Batiuk's language) sporto, then Owen and Cody's has Wedgeman.
The kid in black will actually be the center of a later story but I can't remember if he ever has a name.
>>151581720I should mention that the first strip is the last time Ginny ever appears or is even mentioned. It's like she got memoryholed.
The introduction of the heretofore unmentioned Bill Collins. Despite his retirement, he'll continue hanging around as a substitute teacher for a few years until he passes away in what turns out to be one of the more bizarre Funky stories.
Living in the apartment above Montoni's will basically become a rite of passage for the Funky/Leses. The originals will live there as will Wally, Pete (twice, including currently in Crankshaft) and Darin.
>>151581785I just can't hate Dinkle but man, this Claude Barlow shtick is getting seriously old.
>>151581948This is basically the problem Dinkle runs into. He worked in the cartoonier Act I but in the more dramatic stuff he becomes more and more out of place which isn't helped by the fact that instead of inventing new scenarios, Batiuk keeps running the same old gags with him over and over. So you'll have something dramatic and serious and then it gets derailed in favor of another week of Claude Barlow gags, or flutophone concerts, or band turkeys or whatever so it starts to wear thin by this point.
>>151581948>>151582063It's the price we pay for him staying more or less true to form (at least so far). The rest of the Funkyverse gets progressively more dramatic whilst he remains a little whimsical island of bad puns.
Told you it'd come up again. And this won't even be the last time Bill appears in the strip. In fact in a much, much later story Batiuk will have expected you to remember that he visited Montoni's as the (nonsensical) resolution to a storyline.
Clinton's image at the time was the folksy, down to earth guy who liked McDonald's (remember the SNL skit?), not yet the womanizer image he'd later have.
We finally have the first Act II appearance of Crazy Harry.
>>151582387Well, Dinkle was right about the sloppy fingering at least.
And the first appearance of the now adult Cindy, who's basically completely dropped her mean girl shtick but not her big hair. I don't think it's until around 1998 or so that she finally gets a non-dated hairstyle. And this hairstyle was sure as hell dated even in 1993.I'd say that Batiuk did it so you'd recognize Cindy but, well, here's Lisa who looks nothing at all like she did in high school. And yes, this is the real start of what will eventually end in cancer.
>>151582549Now you'd think that this would be putting the whole "Bull bullied Les" thing to rest. But you'd be wrong because Les, especially in Act III, will still feel the need to bring it up as if them now being even never happened and as if Bull didn't do a lot for him. Even the retconning of how the bullying went down won't be enough.Anyway, we also have the introduction of Linda Lopez who will be Ginny's replacement. She'll teach the same classes, looks kind of the same, will take Ginny's role as Les's work wife. She and Bull will also eventually marry so she's sticking around for the remainder of the strip.
The introduction of Linda is followed up by the introduction of her daughter Mickey. She'll be around until, like the rest of this era of students, she graduates in 1998 and then more or less disappears from the strip entirely until the later years where she makes some minor appearances when Bull starts to have his major late era storyline.She might actually appear more than Jinx now that I think about it.
And the first physical appearance of Ironstonemarblehead Morton.
I feel like Coach Stropp's shtick transferred over a lot better than Dinkle's.
>>151582709Time for me to go to bat for Act II, because missteps aside I genuinely think Batiuk shows some improvement as a writer. Wally feels like the character Funky should have been in Act I. He's like an amalgamation of Funky and Les; While he's clearly low in the pecking order like Les and victimised as a result of it, he's also got some of that Funky snark and charm. In Act I Funky basically got sidelined in his own comic because if was obvious Batiuk preferred writing Les, but Les often came across as just too damn pathetic. I think Wally strikes a better balance, he's a more rounded character.
>>151581367>>151581560>>151581889Damn, that's pretty fucked up what happened to Wally>clothes get stolen>had to get eight stitches after the towel fight>gets mugged for his shorts>exposed to the world on national television
>>151583016For what it's worth, Wally is generally one of the characters that people, even the snarkers, like. >>151583030Just think it's only going to get better for him from here.
You could probably make a case that in-universe, Mickey getting attention for being a girl on the football team means Sadie wants her in her group since that would make them more popular by extension. On a meta example it was likely more because she's now the only other girl of note in this class.Also, at least Cindy still has a bit of the old spite for her sister.
Lisa is so famous for one story that she's getting ahead of things by already appearing as a ghost.
What ever happened to 1989?
That finishes up 1993. Next time, 1994 will bring us some incremental advancement on Les and Lisa's relationship, Skip bringing more troubles for the marching band, and a serious incident when Bill subs for Les.These first few years are definitely transitional ones.
>>151583147You must have missed it because it's in the same thread as 1988 >>151506847Also, I wound up organizing mine even more autistically. First the folder is split into Act I, Act II and Act III folders. Then each folder is split into years. Then each year is split into months. It's just folders all the way down.
>>151583157Thanks OP, are you going to put all these in a MEGA when you're done? Otherwise I'll go back and save the threads.
>>151582443>>151582487Huh so he showed up an unannounced and nobody naming him, and then you get hit with the revelation at the reunionI wonder how longtime fans reacted
>>151582586Yeah like I'm more lenient on a lot of the stuff in the comic but even I just stopped and wondered what the hell? when Les brought it up at Bull's grave the way he did. No acknowledgement of how far both of them had come from their high school days? It felt extremely backwards and I wondered if he forgot that it didn't work with the way he'd been writing the two since Act 2. Like if we'd seen them antagonistic throughout most of Act 2 and 3 and Les going out of his way to avoid him then it would've worked. But it doesn't work because of how they patched things up and usually frequent in each others' lives
>>151581814>one of the more bizarre Funky stories.fully expecting he drowns in the battle of the bands or something
>>151583393Bull does a lot for Les and his family, gets outright told that Bull actually envied him, and Les still cries about getting punched out. Hell, half the time their "fights" were because Les would make some smart ass remark insulting Bull in the first place. Bull is straight up one of the nicest characters in the series and gets a lot of undue shit later on.
>>151582709is that a japan fear joke? wow, basically an year after their asset bubble popped.
>>151581190Just put the fries in the bag.
>>151583393Turns out the nerds were the assholes all along.
>>151583622Yeah, it's definitely a joke about that. It's pretty funny in hindsight because the early '90s was basically the height of the "Japan is going to take over" fearmongering. 1989 was when Sony purchased Columbia Pictures and Rockefeller Center, 1990/91 is when Matsushita bought MCA (and thus Universal). 1992 is when Michael Crichton's book Rising Sun came out and 1993 had the movie adaptation. The fear of Japan Inc. as it was called went away soon after because nobody realized how bad things would immediately get.
>>151583186I was relying on your notes.
>>151583846Some times the threads last long enough that I can get through two years, some times they don't.
>>151583844I'm well aware of all that, it just caught me by surprise. >The fear of Japan Inc. as it was called went away soon after because nobody realized how bad things would immediately get.if only they knew how bad thing really are...
>>151583535It part of why I thought Batiuk was gonna reveal this was multiverse stuff, where things from different timelines got merged. Like, Les saying that feels like he came from a timeline where the stuff from Act 2 and 3 never happened. Or Amazing Fantasy #15 being on the comics rack during Funky's time in high school, during Crazy's time travel. Or the "dream" reunion meeting between the younger Funky cast and their older selves. Or all the different possible timelines we've covered. But it only was the time bubble that kept Funky out of sync with what was going on in Crankshaft
>>151581198Odd start to the year, and I actually like to buy Elvis stamps, who are these ladies again?
>>151584124*special stamps, not Elvis stamps fuck me I’m tired.
In yesterday’s strips, we learned that the sentient leaf strips were actually just Les daydreaming what they’d be thinking. Does this open a big can of worms for Funkyverse lore? Were all of the sentient object strips just Les’s imagination, including the Halloween watermelon strips that directly reference and address Batiuk, also part of his imagination? Meaning that the Funkyverse actually being a comic strip was just something Les imagined?
>>151584076>a h/a/tsushiba in the wildAs the guy who also does Shima, I almost mentioned the entire arc in Section Chief which centered around this exact thing. Doing two storytimes at once is kind of a pain in the ass though I wasn't expecting a new volume when I started this.
>>151584124Betty the school secretary, and her friend.
>>151584190hahaha what a coincidence! I almost mentioned it in my post too. thanks a lot for doing both my man, I'm really enjoying funky. it's now my headcanon the funkyverse and shima coexist...
>>151584112Also Cindy being in her late 60's/early 70's and also pregnant
>>151584262Pushing an uncooked cornish game hen through gray drapes.
>>151581970looks like you missed a day. I was able to snag a screenshot on gocomics using the ublock element zapper but the coloration is off
>>151585425Yeah, I can't believe I did, here's the version I had.There's actually a script for UBO that deals with the paywall (easy enough to find if you use Grandpa Google) and unlike the old GoComics site, the new one winds up letting you directly grab the images.
>>151583042Wasn't she introduced as having been an office aide, being on the yearbook committee, and others?
>>151585626Yes but Batiuk still hasn't shifted full from gag to drama mode so it's just a comedic thing meant to make her being a virtual ghost funnier, same with not even her mother knowing who she is. Notice how the word definition and other filler gag weeks still crop up? Those are completely gone after next year too.
>>151586291Do you think the strip would’ve been better off if Batiuk had done a FBoW and had the strip progress in real time while still keeping the tone the same?
>>151586805If he had done real time progression and was able to do more of a mix of comedy and drama it'd be fine. I generally think that for whatever faults it has Act II is fairly readable and even enjoyable up until 2003. That's the year where things start going off of the rails IMO and he leans way too hard into trying to one up himself.
We know Dick Tracy has a crossover with Funky that gets covered in both comics, which means the characters Dick Tracy meets might also be real in Funkyverse, like The Spirit and Green HornetAlso Flash comics exist but The Flash Museum also exists, somewhere in Act 3
>>151582667Now, that last panel is banner material if I've ever seen it. I'd whip out paint.net but I'm on my cell. Which also means I needed to wait two minutes to post this >.>Also, between Dinkle and Cindy, I feel like Batiuk is at his best when he's doing more outlandish cartoony character things. His more serious stuff feels more like it's bringing the tone down.
>>151581514This was almost certainly based on Reddi-Bacon, which were slabs of bacon that you were supposed to stick into the toaster, which actually did come in Pop-Tart style foil packages that were lined with paper to absorb the grease.So you just dropped the whole package into the toaster. Any tears in the foil would leak grease down onto the heating element though so you can see why this didn't actually work as a product.
>>151588640They'll come up with all this stupid shit but won't bring back Pizzarias.
>>151588640>Reddit-bacon
>>151588640Whoa, you're not kidding>>151588951Maybe they should bring it back and partner with Reddit to get attention
>>151588988Before the microwave really started catching on in home kitchens in the mid '70s, there were a bunch of attempts at toaster friendly food products. Most of them didn't catch on. As a side note, before they became small enough to fit on your average countertop and mass produced enough to be cheap enough for your average home owner, microwaves were considered luxury replacements for ovens rather than a separate appliance to quickly make foods; the whole reason you can set a microwave oven to 99:59 is so you could use it for, say, a turkey or ham.
>>151581469she's cute
>>151581257the art has been getting more creative these last few years.
>>151582178this would've totally worked, fred.
>>151582355insane first strip
>>151584262That too. And also seeing that one comic artist's ghost and then finding out he's actually alive. It just seemed like a lot of crazy contradictions escalated in the later part of the 2010s and onwards. Even Darin and Pete going to the Flash Museum might be one since the curator there is the same from the Flash comics
>>151589468And what I mean is like we know Flash exists as a comic book character; Dinkle gives Clinton a box of comics including Flash and Mystery in Space, in this very thread. The curator of the Flash Museum being real implies the Flash is a real person. But then again with the Dick Tracy connection that might be possible because of that comic's implied Batman connection
>>151582731this got me good lol
>>151582783the thing that gets me about dinkle is that for all his whimsy and ego, he really is a great band director. he could've easily been a punching bag comic failure like the coach.
>>151582936https://youtu.be/zowDwF_e8MA
>>151588037
Bump
>>151581235It's odd what and what doesn't have consequences down the line.
>>151581257Man, the astronauts were HUGE.
Bumpy Winkerbean
>>151589468>>151589479What if one of DC's crisises created a copy of the Funkyverse?
>>151590336What does and doesn't have consequences is up to Batiuk's whims. With its use in the later story, I suspect it was because he wrote himself into a corner and didn't actually know how to resolve it so it became a deus ex machina.
>>151589709Ace, saving this.
>>151591806I'd believe it. I also did find out that in the Jerry Lewis comics, the DC characters including Batman and Robin are real people, AND the 1966 Batman show exists in-universe which is how Jerry Lewis (and likely everyone else) knows Batman is Bruce WayneThe Jerry Lewis comics got grouped in with Bob Hope comics, 60s Inferior Five, and the 60s Plastic Man on Earth-Twelve so I'm gonna start believing that the Funkyverse is the post-COIE altered version of the original Earth-Twelve
Fucky Fuckerbean
>>151581469>First panelIs that a call-back or just a gag to dunk on Les?
>>151581469>>151582279she cute>>151581814Bill Collins is my Halo game fuel>>151582518the Les punching panel reminds me of the TikTok incel who would record videos of him whiteknighting for girls and punching the camera
>>151581500I suppose this is one way to introduce a character.
>>151581763But see it wasn't even their fault, this fuckup would be on the studio. It's not like what happened with Les when he DID fuckup
>>151582709Well huh, flannel really did come back in the early 90sAnd this is Wally's new look that sticks with him to the end of high school, I presume
>>151594583It's both, we see that last time get referenced later
Today it's 1994
Oh Skip... this won't quite be the last we'll see of him, but almost.
Like I said, these few years feel like a transition period so we keep getting these types of jokes desperatly clinging on for a bit.
>>151581526Minimum wage job jokes seem to be evergreen.
I do think Sadie and Susan have good chemistry and while Wally's fine, the two of them really should have been the main duo of this generation just because Monroe is just kind of nothing.
>>151581599Remember how I said that kid in black would be important to a later story? This is that story.I definitely knew trashy edgy types like this in high school who would bring shit thinking it made them cooler or whatever. Never a gun but knives, hard liquor, ICP CDs and such.
This won't be the first time Batiuk gets preachy about something although he mostly saves that for later on when he's old.
Also, as far as stories go the gun one is kind of the biggest thing that happens this year.
>>151581536Remember Sindy, if you're not earning money you're losing money.
One of the things is that once Batiuk is able to get his buffer going, topical stuff like this isn't going to be as much of a thing because he's writing a year ahead. This also means that by the time he does address something, when he does, it's basically a year too late.
Between Wally's outfit, the Butthead doodle and Nirvana, the most '90s thing about this strip is the No Fear shoutout. I think all of those shirts vanished into the aether the minute it hit midnight January 1, 2000.
Funky becomes the manager of Montoni's and also Batiuk reuses the echo joke that he used only a few years earlier.
I feel like these were published out of order. The fourth strip should be the last one and the other two should be moved up one. But as you can see on the dates, that's how they were published so I assume someone at the time (Batiuk or an editor) just wasn't paying attention.
I think this is the first mention of Les wanting to be a writer.
I think Mickey has the correct reaction here.
Apologies for the low quality first strip. GoComics, for whatever reason, doesn't have the 8/1/94 strip but Batiuk did have a version of it on his blog when talking about Chuck Ayers taking over as artist so I just grabbed that.Also, considering it's the strip he uses and says it was a Susan strip that was the first, I'm reasonably confident in saying that this is when Ayers took over pencil duties from Batiuk leaving Batiuk only to write and ink. This is what allowed him to start getting the long buffer going and also, likely, was a major contributing factor into moving defintively away from being a gag strip to longer plots. Because while these first few years are relatively light, starting next year we'll be getting longer, way more involved storylines.
>>151582586Doesn't help either that we see plenty of other people treating Les the same way as Bull and usually with less provocation (though Les was often a jerk or outright creep) while there isn't really anything that shows Bull as being a bully to anybody else. If Bull had had a habit of picking on, say. Crazy Harry, for instance, or Barry as well as his problems with Les, that might have been different.
>>151596104Didn't he mention working on a book in that sequence where Susan found him at the library?
Two major debuts in this week: Becky Blackburn and her mother Roberta. Becky will go on to be a major character and involved in some of the most dramatic stories though it'll take a while for her to get there. At first, she mostly seems to be just an accessory for her mother who initially seemed to exist to give Dinkle a foil. But once it's decided for her to be Wally's love interest, she winds up eclipsing her mother in importance.Roberta, as said, starts out as a foil to Dinkle but will basically be tied with Darin's bio-dad Frankie as one of the biggest antagonists in the strip with her being used as the representative of the reactionary moral guardians that Batiuk dislikes, especially when it comes to literary censorship.
We actually will see Becky's sisters a few times. I THINK Becky is supposed to be the third with two older sisters and a younger one and you'd think putting her younger sister in the next Westview class would have been a natural thing. But it never happens for whatever reason.
>>151596019Seeing this reminds me of Mary Ellen who would have been a good fit for this era as a coach for the girl's teams at Westview. She'd be the right age and could have been a good foil for Stropp.
>>151596490She definitely should have stuck aroud, there wasn' really any reason not to keep her especially since she could have replaced Livinia when Batiuk decided to get rid of her.
This, I believe, is the last appearance of Skip in Funky. His next/last appearance, I think, is in a 2007 arc in Crankshaft.Which means that his tenure in the strip ends on an OJ Simpson joke.
Holly's first post-graduation appearance and Batiuk had seemingly not decided that she would be jaded and bitter. But it'll be a number of years before she's important again so maybe she hasn't yet reached that point. Also, he hadn't decided on her mother's name being Melinda but then she won't be the first or last character to get a sudden name change, right Al Dinkle?
Becky sure is getting a lot of use out of that arm.
There is a clue to an upcoming character hidden within these strips. Can (You) find it?
Montoni's at this point effectively morphs into a carbon copy of an Akron pizzeria called Luigi's, right down to the decor.
>>151596869I understood that reference.
This is also the start of Montoni's becoming the main hangout destination and place that's for, well, everything really.
The first of many, many flashbacks to the teen pregnancy story. Lisa really is an entirely different character than she was back in Act I and it would have been nice, in hindsight, if her changes were actually shown.Anyway, that does it for 1994. Next time is 1995 where Susan will fall in love while Les has to deal with the first of Roberta's many moral crusades when the poetry club's literary magazine stirs up controversy. These and other stories will be tied into the big one running throughout most of the year: Les's relationship to Lisa and his attempts to propose to her.We'll also see the debut of another mainstay character in comic shop owner John Howard.
>>151596988Yeah, I left it there for knowers.
>>151581742I wonder if Batiuk kept some sort of record of which characters he had and what they had gotten up to, I imagine he did but maybe he just decided to drop her.
>>151581763This isn't funny it just feels sad and, dare I say it, 'mean spirited'.
>>151597482It's definitely annoying because everyone treats it as they lost and not like it seemingly being rigged. More like Big Fraudnut Tech.
>>151585605good to know since I was thinking about going back sometime after the storytime to check out the days from the early 70s that were unavailable
>>151581235What do you mean consequences?
>>151582086So where did Crazy Harry go?
>>151582234I used to live near Naples, makes me want to go back.
>>151582332>The last stripThat one made me giggle.
>>151582355Is that Dinkle with sunglasses in the title card?
>>151595777The art's pretty good in the first strip, at ast
>>151582418Even heroes like Dinkle are still mortal.
>>151597954>>151582443Oh, that's him? Good to know he's got work.
>>151582487Barry Balderman, the overachiever, got a job as a truck driver? Man that freakout he had at the end of Act I really must have done a number on him.
>>151582518You know, I'm wondering if Les was an inspiration for Milhouse from The Simpsons, they almost feel like the same character except Milhouse is somehow more pathetic.
>>151596061Is there a name for the Summers hairstyle?
>>151582709I agree with the other anon, Wally is a decent character who isn't a complete wet tissue like Les.
>>151582731Kek
>>151582783Is that Woody Allen in the last strip? Also concurring with what the other anon said, Dinkle's great not just because he's funny but because he's competent, not so competent that it gets boring but you like to see him succeed yet still remain autstically devoted to a very mundane job. In fact now I think about it that's a similar reason why I like Hank Hill.
>>151582783>>151598557Huh, I guess it is Woody Allen, I didn't know he played clarinet.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D59x6WeZ9t4
>>151582812Haven't had one of these in a while.
>>151582860Poor Tony
>>151582908Kek at that last strip, and aye, the misery of Stropp fits with the melancholy tone the comic is taking. However Dinkle is that little oasis of whimsy and I like him for that.
>>151598343I would doubt it. But him and Groening are similar in age (though Batiuk's a little older) so I would bet that they were coming at it from the same perspective of taking a stock character and just amplifying those traits to make them more absurd and thus funny.>>151598407The pointy perm?
>>151582928So will there be a follow-up to this? This feels like a set-up for a week of antics but nothing happened.>>151583123>>151583134Merry Christmas Mr Dinkle.
>>151597078Bull and Stropp really like True LiesThey're probably in Heaven watching Cameronkino now
>>151598299Yeah reading these now I feel like the only friend he probably had was Bodean.
>>151599229Darn I got them mixed up. Sorry I’m terrible at names.
>>151598447I think the interesting thing is that you think he is going to be completely like Les at the start (going by how he got treated at band camp or in the locker room), but somehow manage to not be a wet tissue and assert himself a little over time. He had one of the most insane lives of all the characters and I think that's why Batiuk doesn't do much with Wally after he gets married; because Wally's life was fucked later on in a non-comedic way several times--like he technically fucked up his girlfriend's life, he was presumed KIA twice, I think--and it comes off bad if Batiuk kept dumping on him
>>151599326Huh? No, Barry is overachiever who became the truck driver. I mean like several threads ago we see it seems like the only guy he seemed friends with was Bodean. Come to think of it I don't know if he even appears in the comic after Act 1.
>>151599372Oh good I’m not going senile, I just find it hard to keep track of all these names especially when characters come and go. Still, to bring it back to it does seem like a strange trajectory for Barry to take. Does he appear in later acts?
>>151599350His story effectively ended when he marries Rachel because I would guess at that point there wasn't much more dramatics left to wring out of him. But that also happened around the time the focus of the strip basically switched largely to Les, the Hollywood crew (Mason, Cindy and Marianne) and the comic people for the last few years to the detriment of most other characters.
>>151599413He gets a couple of small appearances but nothing like he had in Act I.
>>151596710wow, I love the 4th strip "flashback", very creative. this series is so simple that when something like this comes up it's much more impactful.
>>151596901the owner of the former pub?
>>151600128No but you're close. Physically close.
>>151600211hmmm, something to do with the blue nile coffee house? or the guy changing the plaque? I dunno.
>>151600013IIRC he does use/reference that comic again somewhere in Act 3
>>151596225Looking at the strips following this one (and even including this one) and maybe I haven't actually been paying that much attention to the art, but you can tell the difference, as Ayers art feels more dynamic, I guess you could say. Like Batiuk's art usually feels flat, but there seems to be more angles/detail in the later ones. And it's a win-win since Batiuk could focus more on inking/writing.
>>151600488Maybe it could just be the inking but I thinm Ayers uses thicker lines too.
>>151600296First strip, second panel, right underneath the word balloon
>>151595861luckily school shootings are always topical
>>151599413I dunno, qeing a truck driver for awhile feels like a way for Barry to get away from being an overachiver after his breakdown. He gets to have a lot of time to think+reevaluate his life, make some money, and to get away from his parents for awhile. Kind of like Hachiken or his older brother from Silver Spoon
>>151596343whipped husband
>>151602671Good point, well made.
>>151595243Still rocking the action pyjamas I see Harry.
>>151595307>Fourth stripClassic example of regulations being written to benefit the special interests that help write them.
>>151596901I forgot that store was right next to them before it moved upstairs
>>151595325The last two panels would have landed better if Tom just called it 'America's Funniest Home Videos', 'Scariest Home Videos' already implies that the videos in question would be uncomfortable viewing.
>>151595383Women and shoes amirite?
>>151596225Something I’ve wondered, how come newspaper comic strips can get away with not crediting new artists? Even if they agree to a deal where they don’t receive royalties (which I presume they must) not crediting them AT ALL seems like a recipe for disaster if there was ever a legal dispute over who did what. Like if your name doesn’t appear attached to the published version of your artwork, how do you prove you drew it at all?
>>151595444This week made me smile.
>>151595471Can't sink the Dink.
>>151595586Shame, I rather enjoy these little series.
>>151595671Kek
>>151605120You generally get paid for doing it and I presume the cartoonist vouches for youI think the expectation was that you'd go into another career or do your own comic strip after doing it for a while (ie Jim Davis assisted on another comic long before he did Garfield)
>>151595705>>151595715This has been a funny week.>>151595750>>151595777Oh, here's the drama. It is kind of interesting how the comic has started to depict the school as much seedier. When did Batiuk leave his job as a teacher? Because I wonder if his perception of high school changed after he stopped, and if this darker take on Westview High is due to him either venting contemporary concerns he felt (back in the '70s) but didn't fit in with the tone of the strip at the time, or if it's him reading the news and thinking 'man, things were much better in my day'?Also I'm now remidned of that schlock movie 'Class of 1984', though Westview is no-where near as bad.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPoOWBzda9c
>>151605292Also now I think about it, the protagonist of that movie was the music teacher, i.e. the same as our Mr Dinkle, who is also the most powerful character who kills all the troublesome students and gets acquitted because there were no witnesses, just saying, never underestimate these guys.
>>151595491>that last stripbrutal
>>151595880Don't get mad Harry, CDs have a good decade and a half ahead of them.
>>151596343a weapon to surpass metal dinkle...
>>151596619>his tenure in the strip ends on an OJ Simpson joke.I don't get it. wasn't that a case of murder?
>>151596225Wow, you do notice the change.
>>151596960>shower sandalswhat the hell are those?
>>151596343Damn, that's some powerful woman.
>>151596417lol, it's true though.
>>151596710Holly's still cute.
>>151605684Sandals (or flip flops) you wear in the shower, it's usually something I do at the gym because you don't know how clean those floors are.
>>151606006huh. never thought about differentiating a flip flop between shower-only and normal use.
Batiuk has a website, it looks like he blogs a lotmite b cool>>151595932'94 and my birthday comic is here, I hope it's a good one>Fred Fairgoodwhoopee>words words wordswowfuck this shit
>>151606006>>151606059I just wear my crocs in the shower. that way I always have clean shoes too
>>151605120The weird thing is that Ayers was always credited on Crankshafft, same with Tom Armstrong and Gerry Shamray on John Darling. It was only on Funky where other artists aren't credited (Shamray penciled a few weeks in the '80s prior to Darling, I think around the time where Noah Vale was railing against video games) until Rick Burchett took over pencils for a while in 2017. At that point it starts being credited to Batiuk and him, then Ayers gets his credit once he comes back.
>>151605600It's a reference to the Ford Bronco chase, OJ's friend was driving and OJ was in the car threatening to kill himself or something while a bunch of police cars were chasing them
>>151610453Wait, Rick Burchett drew the comic? I remember him from like 90s DCAU Batman comics and Dan Slott's She-Hulk
>>151606923I was miffed when mine wasn’t a Dinkle
>>151611856Don't worry I don't get Dinkles either.
>>151608997I've only ever used flip flops when in a public shower. why would you use it in your own home?
>>151612034It depends on what sort of floors you have and where the shower is, maybe you don't wear them in the shower but when you get out and you don't want to get wet feet on your carpet when you go to the bedroom.
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