(From yesterday's
panel 1)
Sure, Linda, anyone would mistake a doddering oldtimer with a camcorder for a "movie crew". It's really just ol' Pa Blackburn, whose cross to bear (other than having meddlesome Roberta for a wife) is having to visually document his family's every move.
A film crew? You mean like Jessica, who has been "looking for her father" for, i don't know, a year or something? I wonder how that's been going.
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Huh? I guess this is a little Blackburn background to get us up to speed on Roberta's nuttiness. That's the only explanation I can come up with at the moment. Perhaps it'll all make more sense as the arc unfolds (chortle).
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Nice job, Linda, rubbing it in Becky's face that you can tap your own coffee without having to sit the mug on the floor first. Would it trouble someone to push the coffee machine away from the edge of the counter? You can tell Becky's just sitting alone in that break room waiting for someone to come along and give her a hand with a two-man operation.
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Notice how subtly Batiuk sets up Roberta Blackburn as a domineering busybody. This provides a hint to the tact and grace we can expect from the ensuing arc, which should fall on the scale somewhere between "clown hammer" and "anvil."
And I don't know about you, but I for one would pay good money to see Mr. Blackburn's footage of Becky's post car-accident recovery.
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I usually don't post specific spoilers about upcoming strips, but I figure this one's okay.
So Linda's gone from seeing Roberta putting up a sign, walked into the break room, gotten herself some coffee and had a conversation with Becky. All this has happened, and three days or so from now, ROBERTA WILL STILL BE PUTTING UP THE SAME STUPID SIGN.
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i'm new too strip,one arm girl is robertas kid?what happen to her arm?my guess is roberta walked in on her masturbating an removed the evil arm
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The Roberta bitch will freak out when (2) Gay Guys ruin her "best prom ever".
Everyone will get into it because of her and her own daughter won't even lead a hand.
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Flappy: Becky went to her senior prom with Wally Winkerbean (Funky's nephew, or cousin). Wally was liquored up and they drove off a cliff. He lived, Becky lost her arm.
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So when you get right down to it, the big "same-sex prom couple" arc will really mostly be about an annoying old crone complaining about "the way things used to be" and "these kids today". So what, may I (and Crankshaft) ask, is so f*cking groundbreaking about that?
Imagine being a first-time FW reader who decided to see what all the fuss (lol) was about this week. You see Becky sitting there with her missing arm. You are baffled, so you do a little online research and discover her back story. Would you even bother to keep reading after that?
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"He wouldn't recognize his own children if he didn't see them through a viewfinder."
WHAT??????
WHAT?????? Does this guy have some bizarre form of neurological disorder worthy of a chapter in an Oliver Sacks book? And, like, is that supposed to funny in some way?
Oops, Sorry. I forgot that "they're only called 'comics' through an accident of history." Please proceed with your unfunny, nonsensical, botfly-ridden, steaming mountain of excremental award bait. Ya big lug.
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I like flappy's explanation better.
Speaking of jerkoffs, why are Becky's parents featured so prominently when we've never, to the best of my knowledge, seen hide nor hair of Les' parents, the main character of the strip? Presumably they killed each other once they realized what an unspeakable horror they'd let loose into the world.
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wow another quirky character trait we never knew until now. like we never saw him film any of Becky's train wrecks sorry band meets which you'd think would be a natural but ah well.
the filming thing reminds me – what ever happened to the John Darling Documentary maker?
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As I used to joke … 40 years of writing dialogue, and still 1/4 mile from the human manner of talksound.
Also, a prediction: hanging the sign will take 18 strips. That leaves 1 for all the action, and another for the lame pun at the end.
Step 3: Pulitzer!
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I gotta give TB credit on this one, he resisted the urge to draw the pinned-up sleeve for a whole panel.
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the filming thing reminds me – what ever happened to the John Darling Documentary maker?
They moved in with Les "I want to write the screenplay" Moore and haven't been really seen since. That's what happens when you have 60 characters have 115 plotlines competing for three word balloon choked panels.
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the filming thing reminds me – what ever happened to the John Darling Documentary maker?
Les had her and Durwood for dinner.
And they were delicious, too.
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To add insult to injury (literally, in this case), Becky was a flute player who had just landed a scholarship to Julliard only days before Wally drove the two of them off a cliff. Because being amputated isn't enough of a tragedy for Mr. Serious Comic Strip Artist's taste.
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Funky Winkerbean—-worst reality show EVER!!!!
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In other news, Chris Sims has wasted no time in posting April's most depressing Funky Winkerbeans and Crankshafts. It was certainly a banner month for gloom, despair, and agony.
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