You know, as an employee of Montoni’s, if Darin wanted done with these two (and if he had a hair on his ass) he could just throw ’em the hell out of the store. Instead, he and wifey slink away, the whole time giving Frankie the stink eye.
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Son of Stuck Funky 
Its called writing , Not !!
So the rest of the arc is going to be people telling Frankie what a terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad person he is, then? Sure, who needs plot?
Panel 3 -Three artistic interpretations:
1. Darrin’s has gotten so angry at his bio-dad that his head has detached itself from his body and is now sneering back while his body walks away. Creepy!
2. Frankie!!! I know your a rapist and all. But dude voyeurism while your son rear entries his baby mama is not cool!!!
3. What the hell is that gold thing under Frankie’s chin?. A badge? A Tom Batiuk seal of dis-approval? A solid-gold Ceylon Warrior?
Panel 2: Worst attempt to draw Dick Tracy ever.
Does Funky keep banker’s hours?
Frankie and Dick Tracy: Separated at Birth?
Who’s really to blame here? Frankie and Lenny for making their pitch -after- paying for travel, food, and lodging, so they feel obligated to keep giving it after rejection….or Darin and Jess for HOVERING AROUND THE DAMN PARLOR LIKE THEIR FEET ARE MADE OF VELCRO?!?
I guess BatSneer figured that having Boy Lisa and Hairball storm away in disdainful rage was such an important plot point that he really felt he needed to hammer it home repeatedly. Either that or he assumes his regular readers are complete morons who can’t remember the strip from the day before. Or maybe HE doesn’t remember the day before, I don’t know. Wake me when these assholes stop with the eyebrow cocking and the endless sneering, it’s exhausting.
Yes, where are they going? To hide in the bathroom? In fact, why has this gone into its second week when it was obvious from the first strip that this wasn’t going anywhere? Just say no thank you and that’s it. It’s not as if Darin or Jessica feels any need to be polite to these two.
And I still don’t understand why this has elicited such a visceral reaction from Darin and now Jessica. What has been shown that justifies their hatred for this man and everything he stands for? It’s so absurd that I can only laugh that Darin’s angry little bitch face in panel 3. It’s so over the top and ridiculous. Frankie should just laugh in his face and ask him what on earth did that self-justifying bimbo tell him about Frankie that has him so wound up. It’d help because that’s the question I’ve been asking. Knowing that Frankie was a date rapist because Batiuk spoiled his own story isn’t sufficient because we don’t know and can’t know what Darin’s responding to.
Anyway. Darin and Jessica should have better imaginations. I’m sure getting cancer patients to wrestle in mud/oil/foam/pudding/butterscotch syrup would debase the concept even further. And they haven’t even gotten to the part about orgies and wife swapping!
My question is.. where is everybody else? Something like this could not just be kept in a bubble for these four. Where’s funky? Where’s the owner? Where are Rachel who’s usually around somewhere?
Good thing Dimwood arranged this meeting after hours…that’s obvious because there is no one else in the place besides the 4 of them.
Who’s doing the art in today’s strip? Everything going on in these three panels screams “Guest Artist”, from the Dick Tracy profile in Panel 2 to whatever Darrin’s face is expressing in Panel 3. And Frankie must be a rapist, because look at the way he’s groping for Darrin’s man-boobies in Panel 1.
Not much to say here besides the same comment as on the NJ site. We still have NO idea what Darin and Jessica know about Frank and there really isn’t anything in this strip that wasn’t in any other strips for the past few days.
Great. We’re going to be spending the rest of this summer watching Frankie pitch his stupid idea and Durrhurr and Girl With Daddy Issues call him an extra bad person.
To her credit, this is the longest conversation Jess has ever had wherein she didn’t mention her father, John Darling.
As they say at the University of Maryland, Fear the Turtle(face)!
Ya just gotta wonder why Tom thought to add that poorly illustrated jukebox to panel three.
Its perspective makes little sense (it looks tiny and flat, not at the far end of the room), it adds absolutely ZERO visual charm or interest, it has nothing to do with the current arc.
…and yet, Tom thought THAT was more important to include in the current arc than something as frivolous as BASIC CHARACTER MOTIVATIONS.
It’s only Monday, Rusty! Have faith that the Daddy comparisons are full steam ahead!
Ah, no matter what the situation, no matter how pissed off you are, there’s always time for punnery and wordplay!
I guess Battybat wants readers to be completely incensed by the very idea of trivializing the sainted life of Lisa The Holy. Seems to me a more normal ADULT reaction to this silly proposal would have been, “I’m really not interested in that. I think you should go. Good day to you, Bio-Dad.” But instead, we get “REALITY TV?? EWWWWWW!! EEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWW!!!!” How old are these nitwits?
Meanwhile, the entire story has ground to a dead stop as Batty trots out every way he can possibly think of for the McBlondies to express how totally gross reality TV is. We. Get. It.
Tomorrow:
“Well, think it over.”
“Oh, it’s OVER.”
Wednesday:
“At least ponder it.”
“Oh, we should… throw it… in a POND.”
Thursday:
“Can we at least discuss it?”
“NO! It’s disgusTING!!
Friday:
“What if I offered you 50% of the gross?”
Well, you get the idea. We all get the idea. Way to pad it out, BatWrite.
They may be sorry that they rejected the TV idea as low when it comes to light that the screenplay Les is writing is, “Lisa Moore: Alien Hermaphrodite Zombie Hunter.”
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These 2 have stalked away indignantly so many times now (And yet haven’t actually gone anywhere…) that they’re due for their 3,000 mile tune up…
Panel 2 makes Frankie the Legitimate Rapist look like a character in Dick Tracy.
So, the message here, Tom, is that Les is justified in writing a reality “novel” which is being made into a “reality based” movie. Jess is justified in claiming she’ll make a reality docudrama about John Darling.
So why is reality TV based on similar material innately evil?
Hell, why are you saying reality TV itself is innately evil?
Reality TV is not a genre, Tom. It’s not content in and of itself. It’s just a format, to be used for good or ill.
Kind of like a comic strip, come to think of it. You could tell an actual sztory if you wanted to, but instead you’re content to crap out these low energy kerfluffles.
It’s called writing – Tom Batiuk
The thing is, most people who write are trying to convey an idea to an audience. Mr. Batiuk, all you’ve done this entire arc is convey how much Darin hates Frankie. Now, all we know about Frankie is that he’s smug, in love with his own voice, and does a lot of smirking. In other words, he’s exactly like Les Moore. Who, I’m betting, is your favorite character of all time.
Apparently, though, Darin (and Jess) know something about Frankie that fills them with distaste. Bordering on psychotic hatred, to judge by the expressions.
So, Mr. Batiuk, how about using some of that “writing” to fill us in on what your characters already know? Because as it is, it’s simply an enclosed back-and-forth with characters whose actions are, at best, difficult to comprehend.
If Frankie raped Lisa, be courageous and retcon away, Mr. Batiuk. Be as brave as you were when you gave her cancer; after all, you went ahead and did that despite knowing dozens of post offices across the USA would be blown to bits.
Anyone else think Frankie looks like a xenomorph in panel 2. Keep expecting him to protract his second jaw.
I don’t have much to say for the strip…
But a TON of kudos to TFH for using the phrase “if he had a hair on his ass”. For my money, the classics aren’t used enough anymore.
John: Good call re: that jukebox. WTF was he thinking there? Why add that one little bizarre detail? Also check out the way Boy Lisa is almost shielding Jessica from Frankie’s sleaze rays as he spits out another disdainful remark with such fury that his head actually dislocates from his neck and lurches forward in a most unnatural fashion. He’s so caught up in their disgust he’s all over the place artistically. At least he got the sneers right, but practice does make perfect, as they say.
As monstrously dreaful as it’s been, this is still far and away the most eventful arc of 2013 so far. And just think, it’s probably not even half over yet! In fact, if he’s going to take days at a time to show something as insignificant as a character disdainfully sneering their way out of a room, this arc could conceivably go on forever. But I suppose you could say that about any of them, really.
I have a theory regarding the length of Batiuk’s story arcs and the quality. Of said arcs. The longer they go, the worse it’s going to be.
My working title is the Batiuk Theory of Inverse Quality.
Time for Frankie to slink back to the land of Dick Tracy, reprising his role as Stonejaw.