Again: how has news of Fred’s stroke not already gotten around by now to everybody in Westview? And Batiuk expects us to chuckle as Crazy Harry earnestly shares with John his own stroke scare, which naturally was triggered by Harry’s comics obsession. Oy vey!
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Son of Stuck Funky 
Funny stuff, because just a few moments ago I felt as if I was experiencing a bout of early-onset Alzheimer’s or possibly mad cow disease, but it was just my brain struggling to fathom the massive stupidity of today’s FW strip. (It failed miserably, BTW). The big question here today is: if Harry suffered a debilitating brain injury, how would anyone know?
Harry is tempting the God of the Funkyverse. No good can come of this.
that nameless stepdad of Darrin had stroke,thats a shame but wait tell u hear about my comic reading giant ‘flashbatman super teen titans history in one book’ also we have new teen wants to join are batdoor comic club
Both of these losers lived in Westview all their lives (okay, I know, that’s redundant) and went to the high school: yet Fred is “Darin’s dad” to them?
Well, there goes the award Batiuk was expecting from the American Stroke Survivors…
Strokes. Are Funny. They’re the same as when you have silly dream. Ehhhhhhhhhhhhh. Not tragic at all. Funny. Ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
Funny.
Harry has missed his calling. He should be working as a booze-soaked Las Vegas comedian — that guy can segue ANYTHING into an unfunny joke.
But was it the Flash Gordon Sundays with the Jungle Jim Toppers? Come on, Batiuk, you can’t leave out important details like that. It’s called writing.
“Hey, remember that guy who invented breakfast pizza? His dad had a stroke.” Perhaps tomorrow will be another Sunday special without word balloons. Just 8 panels of Fishstick attaching a drool cup to the head of Darin’s dad. Oy vey, indeed.
So let’s see if I’ve got this straight: The guy who was the bastard son of the dead chick who was married to the pompous prick with the goatee, specs, and receding hairline’s adoptive dad had a stroke? Ok. Now I follow ya.
Crazy McBeardo’s leg fell asleep from comic books? Suuuuuuure. More likely it was the underage boy on his lap who was stroking HIM. And it was his middle leg that fell asleep. The facts will come out eventually.
Funky told me Fred had a stroke. The large book on my lap cut off the circulation in my leg. Les is a pussy.
It’s called editing.
Darin is working at Montonis’ right?
…..and so does Rachael and Wally?
Just wondering.
While I’m at it…. Was Jinx going to college?
What was Rana and Crazy’s daughter doing post-high school.
I know that Wally jr is dead……but does anyone even remember the names of Crazy’s other 2 younger kids?
Anyone?
Turning every conversation to himself? Are we sure this isn’t Les in a Crazy Harry mask?
Good lord, why is the last panel so wordy? The title of the book is completely irrelevant (and kind of a red herring for those who expected the punchline to be about Flash Gordon), and the volume doesn’t matter either. Plus, the “big” Volume Two of the Flash Gordon Sundays? If he has them both, why didn’t he read the small one?
…I’m trying to distract myself from the abysmal content here.
I see the “having” is squished, as if BatBoy didn’t plan it out.
Harry: “So, my former principal had a terrible, life-changing stroke?”
John: “Sure did.”
Harry: “Huh. Say, that reminds me of a silly, inconsequential thing that happened to me!”
John: “Well, gracious, what doesn’t?”
Boy, has Crazy always been this big an asshole solipsist?
“My wife has terminal cancer.”
“Speaking of terminal, my flight was delayed 30 minutes last week! Can you believe those airports?”
“My daughter was hit by a car and killed.”
“That reminds me that the stoplight outside Menards was broken and I sat in front of it for six minutes before I realized it. RUINED MY WHOLE DAY!”
“I wrote a book about John Darling.”
“PLEASE TELL ME EVERY SINGLE THING ABOUT YOUR LIFE FOR THE NEXT MONTH AND A HALF. I AM SO INTERESTED I WET MY PANTS BUT I WILL ONLY CHANGE THEM LATER BECAUSE I AM SO INTERESTED.”
Actually, looking back, it’s pretty much entirely consistent. They’re all sociopaths. They only look at what Fred’s going through as a reflection of their own experiences. They don’t even consider for a moment what Fred himself is experiencing, or even feel any sympathy for him. He has a stroke and it opens up the opportunity for everyone to explain what strokes mean to them.
“I broke a bone in my lower leg.”
“I MADE A PIZZA THAT LOOKED LIKE A FOOT ONCE. I TOOK A PICTURE OF IT. WANT TO SEE?”
Of course news of Fred’s stroke hasn’t spread….he survived!. The denizens of Westview are only interested in the annoying dead not the boring crippled! Why do you think nobody gives two shits about Papa Winkerbean rotting away in his nursing home.
@BeckoningChasm, sorry I could only give you one like 😦
Beckoning once again proves that FW CAN be funny, but it all depends on how you fill in those damned word balloons.
I like the background in panel two. There, in the deepest, darkest recesses of the Korner, even light streaming through the windows can’t illuminate the sick twisted horrors lurking within John’s perverse den of iniquity. Interesting how DSH has two “real” window signs but just a hand-lettered piece of paper on his door, he must have blown his entire marketing budget on those “stik-on” labels.
I don’t know. In Beckoning’s parody, I felt like DSH’s expression in the second panel had the perfect combination of confusion and concern.