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Although we’ve only just met him, it seems like “the sportos” are well acquainted with Jarod Posey. His arrival in uniform is greeted with disbelief and jeers. “Posey the Nosey”? Just because it rhymes, I guess; loners are typically more interested in securing their own privacy than violating others’. We’re given an inkling of Jarod’s tumultuous home life, as well as a look at his newly-blond, though still receding, hair.
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Son of Stuck Funky 
So Jarod, who clearly doesn’t want to be on the football team, is not wanted on the football team by anyone other than the coach, and has no reason for being on the football team, is on the football team. Got it.
First things first. Why is Jarod’s hair a different color now? I mean seriously Tom, you just introduced the guy last f*cking week.
Then the staggeringly weird and terrible dialog. “Posey the Nosey”? “Sportos”? “Sounds like home all right”…uh oh, does Jarod have some sort of awful, traumatic back story too? Of course he does, what am I saying?
And that last panel. What is the black kid in front doing, exactly? And the kid to his immediate left…is he doing the swishy hand thing people do when trying to imitate or describe a stereotypical gay male? Better be careful there Tom, I think Mr. Roper patented that move back in the late 1970’s.
As I said yesterday, as mind-bogglingly unoriginal and incredibly stupid as this is, it’s still preferable to week after week of people complaining and making those miserable self-depreciating cracks all the time. Of course I’ll be singing a different tune come Wednesday or Thursday when this thing peters out into nothingness, most likely. But for now this is more than he’s dared to do in quite a while (seriously) and I’m look forward to seeing what, if anything, happens next.
Wow. Not even a throw-away gag anywhere in the last week, “Of course, you’ll have to dye your hair blonde! Ha ha ha!”
That’s nuclear-level laziness right there.
“Sportos” definitely needs to go in the Batiukionary. [Done! –TFH] “Sorry, I was fighting the sportos to get access to the vendos, so I could be prepared for my solo car date! Hey Funky, what did you name this car again?”
He’s blond! This Troglodyte Cinderella story is shaping up like a dream!
Everyone in America for the last 50 years have called them jocks, you asshole. Pass the crustaceous ketchup.
This new quarterback protege is actually the same age as Cody (Owen?Which one wears the wool cap?) These kids were introduced as goofy freshmen a few years ago so should be at a similar maturity rate as Jarod. So why do they still look 14 and Trenchy looks 35?
I love the stupid new arc, it’s incredibly horrible and that’s what I have come to expect and enjoy.
But I still haven’t recovered from the time Les and Funky stood so smugly and proudly in front of a bush that a young woman was peeing on.
Jarod had ZERO, no make that less than zero interest in being on the football team. I know this is asking a lot TB, but from a narrative stand point could at least give us clue as to what changed his mind? And no deus ex machina (your favorite literary device) doesn’t count.
“Posey the Nosey”? Seriously? Why, because it would be more contemporary, thought-provoking and sensitive than “Posey the Poser” or “Posey the Pansy”? Neat-o, Sporto!
When I first saw “Posey the Nosey” I thought for sure that I was reading it wrong. And I like how the worst football team in the history of the sport is actually making fun of someone or something else, even this middle-aged gentleman who’s now the QB based on one throw. Perhaps that’s why the team looks so awkward while mocking him, they’re so used to being the mockees. Or it could be the artist, either or.
Hey, isn’t this program a “pay to play” deal now? Am I to believe that Jarod’s parents (who apparently jeer him at home too) forked over the cash for their woebegotten son to play football? They never would have bought that story, they’d obviously assume he was lying and just wanted money for smokes, booze and Rogaine.
I’m still calling on Jarod being the gay behind the decorations that congratulated the principal during the prom arc. He can hit the gay-hate, bullying and some paranoid jocks and meat-heads team up and gang rape him in the shower that he could win awards for anti-bully groups and highlight teen struggles.
Meanwhile, Crankshaft goes Star Wars® today………………………..
Jarod becomes a Jock and Mary becomes Darth Vader.
Someone needs to tell Batiuk there’s no such position as Designated Passer in football.
Meanwhile, Crankshaft goes Star Wars® today
If Funky Winkerbean has taught me anything, it’s that everybody–be it the oldest living WWII veteran or a high school student in 2013–has the exact same pop culture reference frames as Tom Batiuk. Tune in next week when we learn that Jarod is so sullen because he has PTSD from the Kent State shootings.
Has anyone else noticed Our Boy Hero’s striking resemblance to an Easter Island Head (Moai), especially in the intro panel?
Yep, this strip is heading headlong into GIL THORP territory: weird vocabulary, WTF plot twists, character with checkered backstory, people you can’t identify without help (though in this case, it’s not because the artist can’t draw more than one face but because somebody f—ed up the coloring. Tomorrow, we’ll see everybody at The Bucket.
He’s very unpopular Ed. The Sportos, Motorheads, Geeks, Sluts, Bloods, Wasteoids, Dweebies, Dickheads – they all despise him. No one thinks he’s a Righteous Dude.
Yeah, today’s Crankshaft even uses the same scene from Empire as that Darren/Franky arc a few months ago! Batiuk only remembers one scene from the trilogy, apparently.
Thanks, Sgt. Sanders, for providing the only instance where I’ve heard the word “sportos” until today’s FW.
I’m guess ing that Tom Batick has never met a rebellious teen. No way it would be that easy to get a rebel into the football team. But, as everyone has pointed out, Jarod looks to be going on 40, so that explains it. I guess. “Reality-based comic strip,” everybody!
It’s been long established that there is a coloring disconnect between the Sunday strips and everything else (in fact the style of the artwork on Sundays is so different that I can’t believe it’s the same artist), so I’m not surprised that Nosey has different hair color today. The thing that bothers me is, the position of quarterback (as pointed out here) does not merely consist of throwing a football accurately. It is the most demanding position on the team, requires deep knowledge of all the plays, knowing the capabilities of all the other players, reading the defense, calling plays on the fly, and making adjustments in real time. It’s a position that requires respect and cooperation from all teammates more than any other position, plus he likely wrested the starting QB job from somebody else (Wedgeman?) who may have already had the rest of the team behind him. Somehow all this will be ignored this week, as Posey miraculously leads the team to its first victory in Scapegoats history.
The boy with the NASCAR name and the mighty arm is now a Scapegoat and may find himself a real scapegoat if *sigh* he comes crashing down after his meteoric rise. But that won’t happen here. No, you can get blowed up at the post office, lose your arm when a drunk crashes his car, die of cancer, have a #*$!-ass for a bio-dad, or come back home after long captivity and find some skunk head sleeping in your bed and a tombstone with your name. But fortune smiles on some. I think this boy is golden.
” I know this is asking a lot TB, but from a narrative stand point could at least give us clue as to what changed his mind? ”
What would Hemingway do?
Bull: “The football team is like a family.”
Jarod: “Um, why are you saying that? And what am I doing here?!? Yesterday I made it clear I HATED the idea of joining the team.”
Bull: “Don’t sweat it, that’s just how they rally around you.”
Jarod: “Verbal abuse and bullying are not just “all in good fun”, old man! What the heck is wrong with you?!?”
Bull: “The inking in this comic is no worse than others.”
Jarod: (looking skyward) “….help.”
—I’m still calling on Jarod being the gay behind the decorations that congratulated the principal during the prom arc. —-
I got dibs on Jarod being related to Frankie the Rapist in some way.
Am i the only one who thinks of this song by the Crystal Method whenever someone is called “Nosey”? At the least there’s a resemblance with the new blond hair.