As the last brown leaves flutter over Westview High, while a few green ones inexplicably cling to the tree, the nerds are already at work , improving “our robot” for next year. In the aftermath of Robo-Goat’s slaughter at the hands of Tech’s massive mechanoid, Cody thinks that WHS needs a “more intimidating”, rather than, I dunno, say, a bigger and/or stronger robot.
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Son of Stuck Funky 
Recycling jokes helps save the environment! Even if they weren’t funny the first time.
As the author of ACTUAL “spinoff” comic strips, it’s weird how he’s using the term completely out of context here…again. It just doesn’t make any goddamned sense. How did a “joke” that bad make the cut, twice no less?
Only BatArt could follow up an obnoxious “statement” arc about the folly of expecting humor in “comic” strips with a completely goofy, off-the-wall arc featuring two dimwits and a helmet-wearing robot getting its ass kicked. In the main, something tells me that there won’t be too many hidebound literalists dissecting this particularly forgettable little arc 100 years hence. Or next week, for that matter. Fortunately for us, we’re spared the chore of infantilizing this one because it arrived already infantilized.
Wait, Unfunny and Unfunnier are just the robot…decorators, or something. Why would they have the whole robot (whose butt the Iron Giant or the Queen Album Cover Robot or Whatever had kicked off)? And why repeat a nonsensical, nonfunny, nonhuman punch line twice in one week? Is this Andy Kaufmann/Chris Elliot anticomedy? Or maybe just a steaming pile of comedic ineptitude, writhing with bored, suicidal maggots?
So, having witnessed “their” robot’s ignominious defeat at the hands of a superior technological beast, “their” solution is to give the next robot…a different hat.
This is just too depressing. HEY, Tom Batiuk, I have an art exhibition coming up. Buy my paintings and I’ll stop being disappointed in your work. Hey, fair enough!
(The preceding paragraph exceeds the Funky Winkerbean pathetic margins by a full fifty-five points and must be deleted.)
What an awful week this has been. I firmly believe that Batom Inc. meant last week’s lecture and this week’s poor attempt at humor as a double-barreled message to readers: You’re stupid if you want humor in comics, and you deserve punishment.
Well, there was one good strip this week. That’s one more than it usually has.
I get the idea Bat Hack has a library of weeklong Mindless Filler arcs that aren’t connected to anything that happened previously and lead nowhere. He puts his fifty other dangling storylines on hold as be inserts padding like this. Can’t decide if this is good or bad because the other storylines are shit too.
Still can’t believe the Wedding of the Century was barely touched on, other than all the griping and dirty looks delivered during the setup, where Fuzzface and Crayola had no help from anyone. We cut abuptly away from the wedding arc (because the Dead Lisa scenes were deleted????) and have been in filler ever since. Well wait, he did send Corky off to the Army, but that was a quick hit and run.
By the way, I was just wondering this when I got up today – Do you think there is a website somewhere where Tombat and his pals snark on the writings of SoSF contributors?
“Some newspapers (comics) are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.”
Spiro T. Agnew
Do you think there is a website somewhere where Tombat and his pals snark on the writings of SoSF contributors?
I think they are in awe of our contributions and wish they could WRITE this well. It’s called “WRITING.”
This joke makes more sense if you substitute rip for spin.
Cody: “So, we’re going to present this to our fellow technology club members?”
Owen: “Um, we’re not members of that club.”
Cody: “….*…that’s right. Come to think of it, what we’ve done to their robot -isn’t- FX work, it’s PROPS work!”
Owen: “….*…so we’re not actually members of the FX club either?”
Cody: “…I guess.”
Owen: “Um, so why were we involved in this arc at all?!?”
Cody: “So that someone could indulge in his vast love for bashing teenagers.”
Owen: “I’d object, but I’m just an automatically and innately evil, stupid, worthless teenager, unable to discern the nuances of such a master writer.”
Cody: “Master SOMETHING.”
To all of us, this was just another boring week with a lame story featuring lead balloon jokes and uninteresting characters. To Swishy Tom, this was a great chance to get his next wave of High School Hijinxers out on center stage so we can Get To Know Them Better. And now that we do, quite frankly we’re not all that impressed. Sorry.
I don’t know why, but i found today’s Crankshaft to be a pretty decent effort as well. I would swear, sometimes the writing there is significantly better than the effort Batiuk puts into his solo strip. Maybe there’s more re-writing by Ayres than we knew? Obviously the “editor” (Brendan Burford, alleged “editor” of Funky) doesn’t do s**t.
this was a great chance to get his next wave of High School Hijinxers out on center stage so we can Get To Know Them Better
Oh, I disagree with that. Owen and/or Cody have appeared in more strips than any other third generation kid not named Summer, and I think that’s pretty close. I would almost be tempted to bet that Owen and/or Cody have had more storylines, if not individual strips, than Summer. These guys are better known than any of the other kids. If they have a second character attribute, they’re pretty much tied or ahead of any other teen. I’d say they’re more attractive as characters to Batiuk because he’s more attracted to failtastic underdogs than heroic Mary Sues like Summer, or quasi Mary Sues like Jinx or Keisha. He’s more inclined to tell “their” story.