Again with the “lumping”. Yesterday, Skunkhead was proclaiming that the public “lumped” the “comic weeklies” in with Pulitzer’s “Sunday supplements”; today the crude, clueless, uncultured masses have “lumped” together those supplements with the nascent art form of “comic strips”. Because back in the 1880’s, and in fact right up until this day, the great unwashed craved mere amusement, and could never be expected to appreciate the difference between mere “comic strips” and art. Are you with me so far? Cody’s not. So desperate is he to get away from John’s blather that he’s using homework as an excuse.
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Son of Stuck Funky 
Gah! I messed up the scheduling…here’s today’s post!
There’s 65 words more interesting than the 65 found in today’s wall of text. I guess TB is trying to bring back the essays that Pulitzer dropped from his “supplements” because this sure doesn’t qualify as humorous verse or cartoon artwork.
billy, you forgot to add:
(he said lapsing into his native Latin)
(five long, long days later)
DSHJohn: … and that’s why they’re called ‘comics’, even though they don’t have to be, and shouldn’t ever be, actually funny. They should be as sordid and depressing as the real, cancer-filled world around them. They should be real literature, filled with Connecticut divorcees taking a pensive draw off a cigarette as they come to terms with their lost youth and accept their terminal prognosis.
Owen: Huh. So why do they call them ‘funnies’?
Hard to believe ANYTHING could actually be more boring than a regular FW story arc, but here’s the proof. Is all of this some sort of attempt to justify the continued existence of comic strips or something? If so, I’m still not sold.
This has been the Room 101 of story arcs. I’m perilously close to wanting to see Les go on another book tour.
Pulitzer understood his market a hell of a lot better than Batiuk. Must I repeat “give the people what they want”?
Perhaps this pendantic storyline could be rendered more streamlined by the able use of pictures that could illustrate the major points (using say a scene in a newspaper office in the early 1900’s) thus reducing the need for sleep inducing wall of text.
oh wait.
OK, TV Tropes fans – is this week Author Tract; Take That, Critics; or Author Filibuster? Or maybe Character Filibuster?
You know Owen, if he’s boring you, you can just walk away. You’re not in school. You’re not even required to be polite to the creepy old man.
“Hey Mr. Howard, that’s really interesting! Oh well, gotta go!”
See how easy that was?
Or you could be a little more honest: “Hey Mr. Howard, Cody’s game of Mario Kart sure looks interesting! So I’m going to go watch it. But don’t worry, I’ll place this figurine of Venom here and you can tell it your terribly wonderfully interesting story.”
And when Gross John goes on to tell his story to the Venom figurine, it will be the first moment of genuine pathos this strip has ever had.
BTW, is Cody wearing a pearl earring? Kinky!
@Flummoxicated:
The main difference between Author Filibuster and Character Filibuster seems to be whether or not the message is delivered in the prose or by a character. So it’d be the latter.
Author Tract is when the entire work is meant to deliver the message; Funky is definitely an Author Tract, but I think the message is “Life is brutal”.
It’s definitely Take That, Critics!, though. Who does Batuik think he’s convincing?
@Inkwell: So Tom Batiuk=Dawn Weston?
Pulitzer committee took a pass at the gay prom arc, eh Tommy?
@Jimmy: oh, no, Mary Worth has wormed its way into my normal vocabulary.
Helskor, I’d be ok with a Les Moore book tour if he gets mugged or carjacked while he is on tour.
@TheDiva: It seems like the GLBT groups ignored him as well.
A paper to rewrite? Oh, I get it. He’s copying from the Evil Internet again. Those lazy, ungrateful, disrespectful kids!
Again with the “tick tock.” If you remember, Bigneck McBully once told Cody he had enough tick tocks to “kick his butt off.” Is tick tock some kind of Ahia expression? (By the way, fuck you up the ass, Ohio.) Because I never hear or read it anywhere else. This needs to be in the BatDicktionary, along with all the other phrases no other Earthling has ever uttered.
Skunkhead must be the happiest guy in Wankerview. Always surrounded by teenage boys. Perv Heaven.
Brohio. (snicker)
There’s more going on here than at the Moore/whoever wedding. And that’s just sad.
Wait, wasn’t this diatribe supposed to be about comic BOOKS? Now it’s veered off into comic STRIPS? Gosh, I wonder why that happened.
And this is the second day in a row in which the punch line for the day’s strip is, “today’s strip is boring as hell.” Sorry to be repetitive, but, you know, the source material kind of demands it.