Well, for starters, it’s Bob Cratchit, not “Cratchet”. And what’s going on with Crazy’s proportions in panel 1? It appears he’s so bent on assuming Kevin’s role at Komix Korner that he’s actually becoming a little person himself! Or perhaps he’s just “dwarfed” by John in his Jolly Green Giant pose. That symbol on John’s t-shirt means something, but I know not what, nor care, though it’s nice to see him sporting something besides the Batman logo.
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Son of Stuck Funky 
“Ha-ha! No, seriously, I’ll need you here at five AM sharp tomorrow. Those Tarzan comics aren’t going to resell themselves!”
I’m confused. I thought this wasn’t “about greed”. Suddenly Harry’s all about the money out of nowhere. Sell-out!
Ah, the “Skunkhead John: The Smuggening” plot arc continues…
A job?
More of a hobby….a distraction from taking care of his family with a college-age daughter (who is doing exactly what since high school ?)….a wife and two minor age children.
Hope he sold about a thousand comic books today.
Harry could make more money collecting deposit cans and bottles from the side of the road. As for John, Becky is collecting survivor’s benefits to supplement their income because no one has noticed Wally isn’t dead.
I personally have never seen a local comic book store with a fulltime employee.
I suspect the symbol is a ladybug, meaning “Please squash me like…”
o crap not more crazy,why the fuk didn’t dude put comics on ebay,thats why they call him crazy,dead skunk heads needs thought balloon thinking (what a tool crazy is). merry christmas everyone
Last panel is missing a word, isn’t it?
Obviously this is bullshit. How much money could he POSSIBLY be making at this so-called “job?” For that matter, how much is the frickin’ OWNER making?? Christ, it’s a hole in the wall comic book store above a third rate pizza joint in a one-horse hick town in muthafuckin’ AHIA. Ya feel me, dawg? Does Batboy know anything about the real world? Tommeh, does your mom’s attic have windows you could look out of now and then?
I also don’t know the meaning of the symbol on Seaweed Head’s shirt. Does NAMBLA have an emblem?
Yeah, that’s the Christmas spirit! Dead Skunk Head smirks so smugfully, knowing that the profoundly brain-damaged Crazy Harry doesn’t realize that this four-day, no-benefits helper position doesn’t really constitute a “job” of any kind. Well, maybe a “….job” of some kind. Remember, it’s not about “greed” (i.e., a paycheck), it’s about “need” (i.e., Crazy’s compulsive need to touch and feel those precious, precious comic books!). You win again, Dead Skunk Head (an epithet so richly earned)!
Beanie, Batiuk turns out this sh-t day after day, showing no respect to his readers, and he’s still gainfully employed. So how would he NOT have a skewed perception of the way the real world works?
Thank goodness we’re back to the “Komics Korner and Krazy Harry” storyline to wrap up all the loose ends. /sarcasm
Attention Batom Inc.: This plot well is officially dry!
And how slap-nuts funny is it that Batty thinks he’s being clever with this oh so sly Dickens reference, and he misspells “Cratchit?” Oh. Right. Too much effort to look it up. What great “writing.” Haw…
By the way, anybody catch this unsigned cow turd yesterday by (obviously) Tombat on the Comics Kingdom site?
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In the early years the art may have been “in development”, but the strips carried a one-two punch. The first was the strike at the funny bone, and the second was for that moment we stopped laughing, and we thought of the underlying message/condition.
Right, Tomboy. Just like when we let loose an hellacious fart, and the moment we stop laughing, we realize we’ve shit our pants. Sure. Your comic is a lot like that.
Four weeks with Harry, and we still know nothing about the rest of his family, other than that his wife desperately needs to get laid.
Too bad Batiuk didn’t do a takeoff of It’s a Wonderful Life (you know, that movie with James Stuart and Donna Reid?) instead. A distraught Harry is saved from suicide by Ghost Lisa, who shows him what Westview would be like if he’d never been born: exactly the same.
Hee-haw and a beady-eyed nitpicking Christmas to you all!
Something about this comic is so creepy and condescending and I can’t put it into words. I do not like their bizarre Cratchit-Scrooge roleplay. I just really don’t.
@Flummoxicated, That well never had anything in it to begin with. On a side note TB keeps claiming his serial art (cough, cough) is a 1/4″ from reality. If he really believes that then he is more delusional than Don Quixote, Baron Münchhausen, and Glen Beck combined.
This storyline is ridiculous. How can Crazy pay for his mortgage and his car payments and his kids college tuitions .etc by working part time at a comics shop? In the real world Crazy couldn’t take that job, he’d need to find something that paid a full salary and benefits. Batiuk is engaging in fantasy here.
I can’t tell what is creepier: the condescending attitude by Comic Book John or Crazy Harry’s tiny body but normal sized head in panels one and two.
Inkwell done did say: Something about this comic is so creepy and condescending and I can’t put it into words. I do not like their bizarre Cratchit-Scrooge roleplay. I just really don’t.
It IS entirely out of place and out of whack. For one thing, E Scrooge, for all his personality flaws, was financially successful and powerful. Kid Toucher John? I’m pretty sure he and Lefty are getting by on her teacher’s salary alone. Nowhere, but inside of Tombutt’s pointy little head, does that kind, size, and location of business make much of a profit. So his presumed superiority over Hat ‘n’ Beard Boy is way misplaced. Sure, Crazy is a sad sack, unemployed, 70 year old man-child, but Meat Face isn’t very far above him himself.
I think the one and only purpose of today’s strip is for Batty to show off how smart he is, in that he can name two characters in “A Christmas Carol,” though spelling them both correctly is still a bit of a challenge for him.
Even given the fact that Westviweians are preternaturally drawn to comic books, I can’t for the life of me figure out how DSH John keeps that trashy little shop of horros open, much less pays Intergalactic Gonad Crusty to work there. Fercryinoutloud, the guy is a former Federal Mail carrier (or so he claims) and, as such, commanded much more than minimum wage – yet he’s happy with the position. I suppose it gets the wooly booger out of the house and he meets him some moms. Actually, DSH looks a little too satisfied, and I suspect there’s some DSH skullduggery afoot that will, after all is said and done, leave Crusty penniless.
Funky Sr. is on the new logo. TFH sent me email about how terrible the Christmas strip.
I’m dreading it.
Speaking of names, shouldn’t Crazy change his name to Krazy? When Dead Comicbook John gets hit by a bus and leaves the shop to Harry, he won’t fit in with the “Komix Korner” name otherwise.
“Krazy’s
Komix
Korner”? Has a ring to it…
I guess Tom’s completely forgotten he explicitly established that this nebulous, largely undefined part time “job” at the Komix Korner would -only- be for a few days around Christmas. Then it’s over.
So, Harry is thanking John for, um, a few days of possibly unpaid “work”.