Who’s the third kid? And what did Dead Skunk Head do to increase his patronage by fifty percent?
Wait, if DSH, Crazy Harry and these kids are in the comic shop, who in the hell is buying pizza right now!?
This one is just a remorselessly awful pile of garbage, just rock-bottom. Two days of obscure comic-geek references about “Jungle Jim toppers” and then, instead of perhaps maybe explaining what the f*ck a JJT is or why they’re special and/or coveted, a completely moronic piece of shit masquerading as a joke about some sort of “happy dance” that presumably (and improbably) involves something even more embarrassing than that first panel featuring Harry in a state more normally associated with seven year old girls and fluffy kittens. If Harry gets any more ecstatic than that I doubt any newspapers will be able to carry it uncensored. Blech.
Anon-o-Hoodie kid is having a pretty bad day. First, he had to resort to tagging along with the Dimmer Twins, then he was actually kicked OUT of the Korner and, worst of all, he had to experience the trauma of seeing Crazy Harry emasculate himself right there in front of him. Good thing we’ll never see him again, he’s in for a harrowing life.
I have a feeling the pages of his new comic book are going to be stuck together in about five minutes. “Boys, you’ll be safer if you take off your clothes and hide under the covers of this bed! Follow me!”
If this isn’t one of the biggest WTF moments in FW history, I really don’t know what is. Yesterday, when Beardo McCreepy said he was going into his happy dance, we all thought “yeah, okay, fine, whatever” and assumed he meant that figuratively.
Aaaaand just when you thought this scene couldn’t possibly get any more creepy and disturbing, we now see he meant it LITERALLY, and DSH really does have to remove his underage boy toys from the room.
A new low, BatYuck.
You know, I don’t find it implausible that Crazy Harry would be enamored of old comic strips published decades before he was born. I was drawing Magritte-like images long before I’d heard of him or surrealism, and when that connection was pointed out, I sought out many books on the subject. Even today, I seek out books containing reproductions of dada and early surrealist art created in the 20’s and 30’s, long before I was born.
So, as said, I don’t find Crazy Harry’s obsession implausible.
I should add, though, that I don’t find it interesting either.
I am horrified to be proven right that we’re going to spend the entire week watching Harry’s reaction to seeing this comic nook.
What next, a month of watching Harry actually READ it? And will that be the cutting-edge storyline Batiuk promised?
Epicus, “toppers,” as they were called, at least in the trade, were common features in Sunday comics back in the day when the Sunday funnies were so good some families bought two different newspapers to have them.
They were often a sideline strip, done for Sundays only, and usually ran above the lead strip (hence the name), and were sometimes spinoffs of the lead strip. More often than not they were adventure strips, very common and very big in the early- to mid-twentieth century.
“Jungle Jim” was in fact Alex Raymond’s topper for his Sunday “Flash Gordon.” Take a look:
And this one zeroes in on the strip I want you to see…
Did “Jungle Jim” always take place in a hallway?
Hey, Lazy Harry was right! That last link gave me a boner and made dance uncontrollably around the room, humping every person, animal, and piece of furniture in sight!
Whoever saw it will never forget it… Unfortunately!
At least we’re not actually going to SEE Harry doing the “happy dance” tomorrow. Right? Please?
My bet is that Harry’s “happy dance” actually occurs in the Saturday strip.
It’s called “pacing”…
Whatever spastic thrashings Harry inflicts on us, it won’t hold a candle to this (starting at 1:45).
What is both disturbing and revealing is how Tom portrays Crazy’s erotic embrace of a commonly found book….yet ignores martial relationship overtures from his wife.
It has often been recognized that Les is nothing other then an Avatar of Batyuck as has been episodic of other characters…..and now we have this?
“Komix Korner in an attic with an elderly person who lives his life through an unhealthy love affair with old comics”
Art imitates Life in Medina
O.B. Dan: Thanks, you certainly managed to explain it better (and way faster) than a certain Pulitzer (nominated) comic strip author did. Funny how an author heavily influenced by detailed old comics featuring involved, drawn-out stories (and realistic artwork) could crap out such incoherent drivel on a regular basis.
Beckoning: I don’t find Harry’s hobby to be implausible at all. It’s his reaction that’s implausible…and stupid. IMO he could have had Harry express enthusiasm while explaining the value and/or desirability of that particular comic book to those of us who don’t know anything about it instead of having him react like a special needs kid who just won a giant stuffed animal at the local church carnival. It’s called “writing”.
Okay, so John DIDN’T clear out the store first. Was it too much work for Batiuk to keep track of continuity from Tuesday all the way to Wednesday?
Ugh, this is so bad I’m having a hard time snarking on it. I still think this is some plan to make us appreciate Les by giving us some horrible story lines.
Blue Hoodie: “So, um, you’re throwing out paying customers so that the guy you employ can cause a safety hazard? Are you for real?”
John: “Don’t give me back-talk, evil and worthless teenager! It’s bad enough that my wife no longer has sex with me, I’ll be damned if I have to explain myself to you!”
Blue Hoodie: “…huh. I’ve just decided that like every other 21st century teenager, I don’t really CARE about monthly comics. Cody, Owen, why do you guys hang out here?”
Cody: “The furry porn.”
Owen: “The furry porn.”
Blue Hoodie: “….oooohkay.”
Cody: “Duh, McFly.”
Harry: “COMICAL BOOKS! I GOTS A COMICALLLLL BOOOOKS o/`”
John, have we actually ever seen a paying customer?
The women Crazy Harry assumed were their to buy gifts for their male children. The generic teens who entered the filthy alley to buy all of Pete’s collection.
Other than them? I’m not sure.
I haven’t paid attention to the last few days on account of lack of snark (sorry, TFH) and the stupidity of the strip, but isn’t Jungle Jim’s a rather good giant supermarket in the Worst State in the Union?
“Doing his Happy Dance” is a pedophile code word , right???
…Because that’s the only thing that would explain the abject horror on John’s face as he ushers the innocents into the closet for safety.
If his “happy dance” involves stripping naked, taking a running start, then spearing himself head first through a closed window and onto the sidewalk two stories below, I for one, will stand up and applaud.
Okay, this is now officially the worst thing ever.
This is my mental image of the store[img]http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs39/f/2008/323/f/d/Inspirational_Poster__Furries_by_PierceLogic.jpg[/img]
What person on the newspaper decides what comics to run? Don’t they read them and try to judge them on merits? This stuff is just awful. I’m unable to understand how it keeps being published.
Just saw Thursday’s episode. Tom Batiuk has gone way beyond Ed Wood level incompetence and shot right past Michael Bay level incoherence into YouTube level dumbassness. If dumbassness isn’t a real word, I’m going to petition Webster’s and use this strip as my evidence.
Son of Stuck Funky 
Who’s the third kid? And what did Dead Skunk Head do to increase his patronage by fifty percent?
Wait, if DSH, Crazy Harry and these kids are in the comic shop, who in the hell is buying pizza right now!?
This one is just a remorselessly awful pile of garbage, just rock-bottom. Two days of obscure comic-geek references about “Jungle Jim toppers” and then, instead of perhaps maybe explaining what the f*ck a JJT is or why they’re special and/or coveted, a completely moronic piece of shit masquerading as a joke about some sort of “happy dance” that presumably (and improbably) involves something even more embarrassing than that first panel featuring Harry in a state more normally associated with seven year old girls and fluffy kittens. If Harry gets any more ecstatic than that I doubt any newspapers will be able to carry it uncensored. Blech.
Anon-o-Hoodie kid is having a pretty bad day. First, he had to resort to tagging along with the Dimmer Twins, then he was actually kicked OUT of the Korner and, worst of all, he had to experience the trauma of seeing Crazy Harry emasculate himself right there in front of him. Good thing we’ll never see him again, he’s in for a harrowing life.
I have a feeling the pages of his new comic book are going to be stuck together in about five minutes. “Boys, you’ll be safer if you take off your clothes and hide under the covers of this bed! Follow me!”
If this isn’t one of the biggest WTF moments in FW history, I really don’t know what is. Yesterday, when Beardo McCreepy said he was going into his happy dance, we all thought “yeah, okay, fine, whatever” and assumed he meant that figuratively.
Aaaaand just when you thought this scene couldn’t possibly get any more creepy and disturbing, we now see he meant it LITERALLY, and DSH really does have to remove his underage boy toys from the room.
A new low, BatYuck.
You know, I don’t find it implausible that Crazy Harry would be enamored of old comic strips published decades before he was born. I was drawing Magritte-like images long before I’d heard of him or surrealism, and when that connection was pointed out, I sought out many books on the subject. Even today, I seek out books containing reproductions of dada and early surrealist art created in the 20’s and 30’s, long before I was born.
So, as said, I don’t find Crazy Harry’s obsession implausible.
I should add, though, that I don’t find it interesting either.
I am horrified to be proven right that we’re going to spend the entire week watching Harry’s reaction to seeing this comic nook.
What next, a month of watching Harry actually READ it? And will that be the cutting-edge storyline Batiuk promised?
Epicus, “toppers,” as they were called, at least in the trade, were common features in Sunday comics back in the day when the Sunday funnies were so good some families bought two different newspapers to have them.
They were often a sideline strip, done for Sundays only, and usually ran above the lead strip (hence the name), and were sometimes spinoffs of the lead strip. More often than not they were adventure strips, very common and very big in the early- to mid-twentieth century.
“Jungle Jim” was in fact Alex Raymond’s topper for his Sunday “Flash Gordon.” Take a look:
http://comics.ha.com/c/item.zx?saleNo=815&lotIdNo=3114#Photo
Check this…much better…
http://lacanciondetristan.blogspot.com/2010/04/mis-15-artistas-fundamentales-evento.html
And this one zeroes in on the strip I want you to see…
Did “Jungle Jim” always take place in a hallway?
Hey, Lazy Harry was right! That last link gave me a boner and made dance uncontrollably around the room, humping every person, animal, and piece of furniture in sight!
Whoever saw it will never forget it… Unfortunately!
At least we’re not actually going to SEE Harry doing the “happy dance” tomorrow. Right? Please?
My bet is that Harry’s “happy dance” actually occurs in the Saturday strip.
It’s called “pacing”…
Whatever spastic thrashings Harry inflicts on us, it won’t hold a candle to this (starting at 1:45).
What is both disturbing and revealing is how Tom portrays Crazy’s erotic embrace of a commonly found book….yet ignores martial relationship overtures from his wife.
It has often been recognized that Les is nothing other then an Avatar of Batyuck as has been episodic of other characters…..and now we have this?
“Komix Korner in an attic with an elderly person who lives his life through an unhealthy love affair with old comics”
Art imitates Life in Medina
O.B. Dan: Thanks, you certainly managed to explain it better (and way faster) than a certain Pulitzer (nominated) comic strip author did. Funny how an author heavily influenced by detailed old comics featuring involved, drawn-out stories (and realistic artwork) could crap out such incoherent drivel on a regular basis.
Beckoning: I don’t find Harry’s hobby to be implausible at all. It’s his reaction that’s implausible…and stupid. IMO he could have had Harry express enthusiasm while explaining the value and/or desirability of that particular comic book to those of us who don’t know anything about it instead of having him react like a special needs kid who just won a giant stuffed animal at the local church carnival. It’s called “writing”.
Okay, so John DIDN’T clear out the store first. Was it too much work for Batiuk to keep track of continuity from Tuesday all the way to Wednesday?
Ugh, this is so bad I’m having a hard time snarking on it. I still think this is some plan to make us appreciate Les by giving us some horrible story lines.
Blue Hoodie: “So, um, you’re throwing out paying customers so that the guy you employ can cause a safety hazard? Are you for real?”
John: “Don’t give me back-talk, evil and worthless teenager! It’s bad enough that my wife no longer has sex with me, I’ll be damned if I have to explain myself to you!”
Blue Hoodie: “…huh. I’ve just decided that like every other 21st century teenager, I don’t really CARE about monthly comics. Cody, Owen, why do you guys hang out here?”
Cody: “The furry porn.”
Owen: “The furry porn.”
Blue Hoodie: “….oooohkay.”
Cody: “Duh, McFly.”
Harry: “COMICAL BOOKS! I GOTS A COMICALLLLL BOOOOKS o/`”
John, have we actually ever seen a paying customer?
The women Crazy Harry assumed were their to buy gifts for their male children. The generic teens who entered the filthy alley to buy all of Pete’s collection.
Other than them? I’m not sure.
I haven’t paid attention to the last few days on account of lack of snark (sorry, TFH) and the stupidity of the strip, but isn’t Jungle Jim’s a rather good giant supermarket in the Worst State in the Union?
“Doing his Happy Dance” is a pedophile code word , right???
…Because that’s the only thing that would explain the abject horror on John’s face as he ushers the innocents into the closet for safety.
If his “happy dance” involves stripping naked, taking a running start, then spearing himself head first through a closed window and onto the sidewalk two stories below, I for one, will stand up and applaud.
Okay, this is now officially the worst thing ever.
It probably looks something like this:
http://www.cafepress.com/winkerbean/8353766
This is my mental image of the store[img]http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs39/f/2008/323/f/d/Inspirational_Poster__Furries_by_PierceLogic.jpg[/img]
What person on the newspaper decides what comics to run? Don’t they read them and try to judge them on merits? This stuff is just awful. I’m unable to understand how it keeps being published.
Just saw Thursday’s episode. Tom Batiuk has gone way beyond Ed Wood level incompetence and shot right past Michael Bay level incoherence into YouTube level dumbassness. If dumbassness isn’t a real word, I’m going to petition Webster’s and use this strip as my evidence.