O.B. Dan
December 28, 2012 at 12:56 am
Is it just me, or does anybody else see that Cayla has put a little edge on since she married The Grounded One?
Since her “best thing that ever happened to me moment” last fall, Cayla has seemed kinda cranky, as the enormity of the mistake she made in marrying Les has begun to set in. Today she lets slip that Les is not her first choice to spend New Year’s Eve with, before regaining her composure in panel 3 and offering a weak apology. Is Les offended? Not at all: he’s already got a date for when the clock strikes twelve…
Son of Stuck Funky 
Why do I get the feeling the “plans” the girls have on New Year’s Eve were of the “something better is bound to come up, and even if it doesn’t I’d rather sit at home watching the Times Square thing on television by myself than hang around those two” variety?
In Cayla’s defense, New Year’s Eve alone with Les Moore (shudder) is someplace NO ONE wants to be. Seems I was right about Les’ eyebrow. He kept on cocking it and sure enough, now it’s stuck like that permanently. What a dick. Seriously though, if Tombat doesn’t stop featuring that Les face in every strip, he’s going to push a lot of people clear over the edge.
Panel 2: Less’ severed head is about to tumble outta his coat.
Panel 3: Said head is back in place, festooned with the most weaselish look ever rendered in the “comics”.
Was Cayla always this unlikeable, or did it happen when she married Les?
3wks of comic love fest but first visit to girls at Kst 1day,way to stick to important stuff batty
Was Cayla always this unlikeable, or did it happen when she married Les?
Asked…
…Cayla has seemed kinda cranky, as the enormity of the mistake she made in marrying Les has begun to set in.
…And answered.
Cause and effect…
I guess Cayla’s as sour as she is because TB’s special brand of humor demands that someone be bitchy and whiny at all times. And perhaps to his credit, he realized that if Les is the bitchy, whiny one in this relationship, he’d become so unbearable that someone would burn his studio down.
But Cayla’s been bitchy and sour for years. It’s the only personality she’s ever been shown to have.
Now that Cayla’s snagged her man, I get the impression that she no longer needs to hide her ABC* nature.
*ABC=Angry Black Chick
Was Cayla always this unlikeable…?
Cayla’s always been more of a plot device and an indicator of how hip and cool Les Moore is for daring to marry a Negress than a person in her own right, so we don’t know.
OK, then, all Cayla needs now is a dead husband to go along with Les’ dead wife. Oh and thanks for the reminder about Les’ other new year’s eve spent whippin’ his rat in front of the side window… Grrr-oss.
Did she really expect her 18 year-old daughter would want to hang out with her mom on New Year’s Eve? Especially as Les has been struck with Constantly Smirking Syndrome.
Maybe Cayla will play the “dead person on video” and whip out a video of the 1983 “Dick Clark Rockin’ New Year” and reminisce about the time she and dead husband/divorced husband/one-night-stand dude conceived Keisha.
So, they didn’t bother until -after- driving over in order to check of their daughters had plans?!?
I’m starting to understand why they weren’t around for Christmas.
(Seriously. Emails. Texting. These are not scary new things only evil teens love, Tom! They’re old hat by now. Everyone uses them. ARRRGH!)
Cayla knows, New Years Eve with Les means party at Montoni’s!
D-I-V-O-R-C-E!
Once again, Tom Batiuk shows he has no idea how to write a proper sentence.
“But I was looking forward to doing more than just spending New Year’s with you.”
Notice how easily this could mean, “Les, I was hoping you and I would have more time together”? I mean, we all take it as meaning “I wanted to spend time with someone other than you” because we all hate Les, but it’s worded so poorly it could mean either.
It’s not called “writing.”
Yep, Slumber and Kareesha have New Years plans – With the K*nt State girls basketball team and a crate of D batteries.
Less and Crayola will be on the Pun Couch at Taj-MOORE-Hal until midnight.
So when did these two nitwits talk to their kids? Did they shout to them from the stands as they headed off to the locker room?
“DOING ANYTHING NEW YEARS??”
“Yeah, we got plans. Bye!”
I thought I’d see if I could make Les any creepier (New Year’s Eve, 2011).
I’m not about to check with Kent State but at my school dorms were closed during winter break, everybody out, no excuses, even the internationals had to go home. So going to visit the ‘girls’ today? Doesn’t make much sense. Does it make more sense if they are on a team? Are the basketball teams playing during break also? Okay, looks like there’s a Dec. 30 game against Robert Morris.
Again, Batiuk hangs around his old high school all the time for “research”, has been to college once or twice for homecoming.
Crayola’s husband returns to Westview after being held POW from Desert Storm in 1991. He had his sperm frozen and that’s how Crayola spawned Keisha some years later.
Hey… It could happen. It’s called writing.
New Years with Less and Funky no doubt…. Hah, just go caroling
Beckoning Chasm – yes. Yes you did make Less look creepier. Yessir. Haw!!!
That was an All Time “Batschlock aims for ‘tender and touching’ but hits ‘disturbing, demented, defective, and downright disgusting’ moment.” Why Batty didn’t have BOTH women back slowly out of the room, never to return, is a mystery. How tone deaf is Tommeh to show those girls looking on sympathetically?
I’ll also never understand why he had Goatee Stud choose Snake Hair over Slutty Susan. Oh wait — yeah. The Edgy Interracial thing.
“None taken.” Good comeback, Les. Especially since she can’t see your evil eyebrow, which I guess is supposed to signify something.
Batiuk has updated his blog, teasing a “cool story arc” for next year, set at San Diego Comic Con. To quote Bart Scott: “CAN’T WAIT.”
http://www.funkywinkerbean.com/blogs.html
Batiuk has updated his blog, teasing a “cool story arc” for next year, set at San Diego Comic Con
So Dead Skunk Head finally gets busted for kiddie porn and child molesting?
From the blog: “I’m especially pleased about this because Comic-Con will be an integral part of a cool story arc in Funky that starts next year and wraps-up at the con in San Diego in 2014.”
Apparently a month-long arc just wasn’t enough time to tell the Crazy Harry Komix Korner story. So we’ve got TWO SOLID YEARS of it upcoming.
Blogga blogga — How much you wanna bet he mentioned SoSF and his “fans” in the Comics Kingdom forum in the first draft of that blog entry, but his pet bear Ayrhead talked him into taking a deep breath, counting to ten, and editing it out?
Apparently a month-long arc just wasn’t enough time to tell the Crazy Harry Komix Korner story. So we’ve got TWO SOLID YEARS of it upcoming.
I’m all for “write what you know”, but, all due love and respect to comics and their fans, it doesn’t make for interesting reading for the rest of us. FW is getting to be “all comics, all the time”.
“None taken. And I was looking forward to spending thirty more New Years Eves with my wife Lisa, who died of cancer, than some personality-less, race-changing, hateful, unpleasant, violent bitch like you. No offense.”
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Batiuk has updated his blog, teasing a “cool story arc” for next year, set at San Diego Comic Con
Will it be a cutting-edge controversy, perhaps asserting a woman’s right to work in the comics industry, or an interminable lecture on how the comic strip evolved from The Yellow Kid to Funky Winkerbean?
Yup, New’s Year Eve two years ago had Les alone with Mr. Happy (not Lisa). I actually imagined that Les had hung himself, but I wasn’t that lucky.
Now in Cayla’s defense, we shouldn’t heap scorn on her for accepting Les. She was a lonely person looking for companionship, and she must have believed (falsely) that Les was intriguing…lonely, mysterious, and intelligent, and having him ask her out was like the captain of the football team ask Little Miss Nobody to the prom. Reality has set in, though, and Cayla is trying to work through her mistakes. Slowly and subtly at first…then time to go in for the kill later.
Why is Cayla going out partying on New Year’s eve anyway? Isnt she pregnant with Les Jr? Wasnt that the bombshell she dropped on Les in October on the day of their wedding? Why isn’t she showing yet?
Dreamer, I think the pregnancy comment was supposed to be a joke (although it really made no sense in context and wasn’t the least bit funny; which is, of course, par for the course here)
The more I think about it, the more Tom’s stance on email and texting as being Evil Technology Used By Evil Teenagers miffs me.
My Great Grandmother uses texts! She uses email! She has no problem with the advances on modern technology, especially if it allows her to communicate with her children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren!
It’s not “Us Morally Pure Adults Versus Corrupt Youth”, Tom! It’s a Neo-Luddite cartoonist who needs to pull his head out from beneath a rock and accept that the world’s moved on. This isn’t a bad thing unless he makes it one!
Yeesh.
A “cool” FW arc about Comic Con? I’ll believe that when I see it.
There are about 5 people in the world who still think comics are “cool” — Tombat and his four aliases on Comics Kingdom forum.
Well, i still like comic books and even i’m bored stiff with Batiuk’s focus on them. I can’t imagine how dreary these months have been for anyone with no interest at all in them.
Batiuk somehow combines virtually every cliche about comic books, comics readers and shop owners with tiresome soapbox preaching, strawman arguments, and fantasy economics. Then he adds a suspected pedophile as the hero and voila! Arcs so painful they are only bearable by comparison to the smug Les Moore arcs that would otherwise fill the pages.
Dreamer- Cayla just used that pregnant remark to get a shocked response from Les. She was yanking his chain. I actually laughed at that.
From the blog: “I was great to spend time with old friends and a very satisfying way to tie a bow on this special year.”
It’s called writing.
From the blog for 28 Dec. 2012:
A typo, of course, but a telling one!
Really? Boots-on-the-ground research? This from the guy who won’t be bothered to look up the spelling of Benito or Cratchit? Really?
three weeks of crazy harry losing his job, an arc that ended with him still delivering mail, and we get a couple of days of the strip’s (sadly, it’s true) main character visiting his daughter in college? And we never even see them interact?
It may be called writing, but it certainly isn’t called “pacing”.
Or are we going to get a “surprise” homecoming on Sunday?
As for the upcoming cool story arc, maybe a big time syndicate comic strip artist will move to town and show these simple townsfolk what real writing is all about?