Rather gracious of Rachel, I think, wanting to make sure that Wally’s ex be informed of their engagement. But even though Wally’s been out of Becky’s life for years, he knows how she gets in the run-up to band camp. Maybe what Becky’s visualizing is her meddlesome mom Roberta plummeting headlong off that scissor lift.
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This strip hasn’t shown Becky speaking a word to Wally since handing him his trombone and a hearty kick in the ass. Maybe Rachel wants to make a Wally sandwich?
So not only are Wally and Rachel already living together, but Becky is now shacking up with Dinkle?? Or did Skunkhead John age horribly over the last couple of weeks since eating the Montoni’s cupcakes?
Yeah Lefty, and while you’re up there how about “visualizing” a FW arc that doesn’t end on the dumbest note possible. Bet you can’t do it.
Why would Wally need to go out of his way to tell Becky anything at all? Why can’t she find out like everyone else will, via hand-written flyers posted in Montoni’s window? Obviously Wally isn’t going to spring for invitations and stamps at this point, assuming he even can.
Rusty: I might be imagining this but I think Wally and Becky had coffee one morning, before he got Buddy. Can’t for the life of me remember what happened, though, although I recall there being steam-lines involved.
Yep, Wally and Becky had coffee two years ago:
https://sonofstuckfunky.com/2011/03/03/wally-winkersheen/
Hey Becky, they make this stuff called “graph paper” now. It’s great for planning marching routines without staring at a pitch black football field. You should try it.
He *has* to tell Becky because they’re not divorced. Becky thought she was a widow but she’s not. I mean in Ohio, if you *think* your spouse is dead and you re-marry, but then the spouse turns up alive, isn’t the marriage annulled? Or if it isn’t annulled, then they are still married and if Wally marries Rachel.he is a bigamist. Wally and Becky may need to head to Tijuana for a quickie divorce.
Wally Jr. – another member of Batom’s Bottomless Cavalcade Of Seldom-Seen Characters.
You know, after the clever(ish) “mother-in-law” joke from yesterday, this really, really REALLY seems forced. “I have to stay aloft in this cherry picker because visualizing band marching is, ultimately, the only thing that matters to any self-regulating society! Otherwise we’d just be barbarians!”
I know Tom Batiuk never listens to us, but honestly, he ought to listen to someone other than his own fever-inflamed band conductor. This is so stupid, it has sailed far beyond the safety lanterns. And, to be totally, brutally honest here, it isn’t funny on any level at all.
Epicus: It really disturbed me that Wally Jr. actually looked YOUNGER in 2011 than he did in 2007.
As far as today’s strip goes, I see Dinkle and Becky’s emotional adultery continues. Ick. Fact: These two have been pictured off with just each other than they ever have been with their respective spouses.
Fact: Just who is taking care of Becky’s kids is an even better question than the fate of Rachel’s kids or Harry’s younger children.
I’d find it deliciously interesting if Evil!Roberta has been their true caretaker all this time. (We already know for a fact that John never watches them, instead “batching it” at the Komix Korner.)
My first impression of today’s laff-riot was Dinkle! and I was wise enough to read ahead to see Jeffcoat Wayne spotted Der Dinkle as well. So all I can add is:
“C’mon on down Becky! When I loan a girl my scissor-lift, I expect her to put out!”
Considering that Wally and DSH John work in the same building, I’ve never understood why Batiuk hasn’t ever shown them running into each other. You’d think a competent comics writer would want to create some actual dramatic tension- wait, now I understand why.
I applaud your collective memory of the Wally/Becky coffee klatch. Wasn’t Becky the only face Wally could recall? Seems like it would have been interesting to explore, instead of just throwing it out there for a week because Batiuk once read a story about that condition in the paper.
10 bucks says that when Lefty finds out about Wally’s wedding, she’ll act all happy and glad for him. Then, we’ll see a shot of her sitting forlornly by herself in a semi-darkened room, experiencing the kind of melancholy one can only get at county fairs/carnivals.
The last three entries have made me think what Westview needs is a good Mary Worth-style meddler. The only FW character with an ego that even remotely approaches that of Mary Worth is Les, which could be really great – with Worth-Les going around poking his nose in other people’s business, trying to solve their problems through inane, pun-laced advice, opportunities would abound for each and every character to punch Worth-Les right in the face….
You know…you could easily put a police hat on Harry Dinkle and the 3rd panel would look like Becky was attempting to suicide over Wally & Rachel’s engagement. That originally was what I thought Batiuk was trying to allude to here, I give him too much credit.
The town consists of a pizza joint, a comic book store, a high school and 5 dwellings. Try keeping a secret.
Ah yes, the coffee meeting, forgot all about that. Now that that memory has been reanimated, wasn’t there also a week where Rachel sat down over coffee with Becky to ask her blessing and/or permission to date Wally?
Jeffcoat: blessing, permission, and a rather dire warning that, for better or worse, Rachel chose to ignore.
I remember there were copious amounts of steam involved in that arc.
How did he get re-depoyed? He was OUT of the army during Act II or did the Army institute a draft while I was napping and only draft those who have already served? Was he a reservist and get called back up?
I don’t know why I gripe about continuity but the lack of it bugs me more than the poor art work, horrible plot lines and poor writing.
Oohhhh… silhouetted steam! Many thanks!
The coffee shop was called “Jitters” wasn’t it? I guess they went out of business, like the book store, and the party decorations store will soon follow.