Hassle With the Castle

It’s already November and we’ve yet to meet a single student other than the perennial Sophmores Cody and Owen. Oh, wait! One of these faceless slumping shadows has been given a name!

Castle. Are we supposed to care about this guy? Are we going to find out he’s a regular at the Comix Corner and the love child of Lisa and DSH or are we never going to see him again!?

14 thoughts on “Hassle With the Castle”

  1. Cory Winkerbean goes off to basic training, taking a big step into adulthood, shaping his fate in countless ways, and giving his parents a great deal to reflect on: 2 days.
    Pointless Halloween strip: 1 day
    25,630,973rd variation on the “rainy Battle of the Bands” gag: 3 days.

    And Batiuk wonders why people don’t take him seriously as a writer.

  2. Tonight I’m somewhere with REAL Internet: God how I’ve missed it. Unlike FW, for example. What a crappy comic strip, eh? But I digress…

    I may have referred to this week as being a “garbage dump”, I believe. Cory joins the army, some Halloween crap and then a few days of (poorly timed) band/monsoon jokes. Earlier this year I broached the possibility that maybe this whole thing was just a scam, that the entire comic strip industry is a racket whereby lazy “writer/artists” bilk the newspaper industry with their crummy content. There’s probably some sort of union and/or blackmail thing going on there too, but I can’t prove that. But weeks like this only reinforce that conspiracy theory, you know?

  3. No, that’s still Cody (or Owen, I forget which). Owen (or Cody) is sarcastically addressing him by the name of the handsome, sexy, charming TV detective Castle.

    (I may have editorialized a bit there.)

  4. There is a detective tv show called Castle. I think this is Batiuk’s hip way of saying, “No s**t, Sherlock.”

  5. I may have asked this before, but I still need to know: Is this in conjunction with a football game? I know football is played in all weather, and the band plays in it too. But I get the idea this is a band-only festival. Why would that be an all-weather event? Or is this just more Batominc sadism toward its characters?

    Coming next week: Becky quits the school system in disgust and becomes a paper hanger. The new job keeps her very “busy.”

  6. Or is this just more Batominc sadism toward its characters?

    You hit the nail right on the head.

  7. Once again, Batiuk bumbles around with phrases, this time ripping off the ABC TV show that stars the guy from Firefly (and “Captain Hammer” from Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog)

    That’s just Cody–don’t get too excited.

  9. I just hope—and in this I am in no way being ironic—that the owner of Batominc is not actually mentally ill. Because then this snark would be cruel.

    But if Batominc is just effed up in the head, as we all suspect, why won’t it just please stop? Stop! Stop! Stop!

    Really? Band contest in the rain? Again? Are you farking serious? What is wrong with you? This is not “writing”, no matter how much you insist it is.

    Batominc, thou art an hack. I know what you’re thinking: Shakespeare wrote nothing but cliches. Yeah, but he freaking invented them. Do you get the difference?

  10. What kind of hip phrases do you expect from a swishy 65 year old who lives in his mom’s attic?

  11. I’ve never heard of this “Castle” show. But since TB apparently likes it, I guess I’ll add it to my Avoid list.

  14. Castle is this show on ABC about a writer who helps the police solve crime. It looks like a good show, never seen it.

    I would have never guessed that is what he is meaning. Are you sure? Maybe Owen’s last name could be Castle?

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