It’s been quite a week and a half for our Jarod! He’s gone from smokin’ in the boys’ room to starting QB for the fightin’ Scapegoats. Hey, where’s “the big inflatable football helmet that the football team runs through”? Though Jarod’s teammates seem to be a bunch of dicks, I’ve got to agree with ’em on this one: it’s a little presumptuous for anyone in a ‘Goats uniform to be waving a “number one” finger, especially before he’s even thrown a pass in a game.
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Man, these Westviewians sure do have some mighty flimsy looking ankles, you know? The town fathers really ought to consider adding a little calcium to the local pizza supply.
Not only is Jarod’s finger-wagging rather presumptuous, it doesn’t really makes much sense given what we’ve seen so far. Just earlier this week he was unsure, unpopular and brutally hazed during practice, now he’s showboating? I guess a little inconsistency is to be expected here though, after all it’s been a long time since a new (or any) FW character has had this much to do in an arc. With all this activity, mistakes are bound to be made.
Jarod must have smoked something more mellowing than a pre-game cigarette; two days ago he would have been holding up a different finger altogether.
It just goes to show what a bunch of amateurs these sporto bully jocks are. Jarod is not proclaiming himself #1; he’s merely testing the wind velocity in preparation for the game’s first forward pass. There’s no better secret weapon in the game of football than advanced knowledge of climate conditions.
Well, I’m so glad we followed Jarod on this journey, right? How his reluctance to be on the team was overcome, how he learned there’s much more to being a quarterback than just tossing a ball, how the team realized that even if they didn’t like him, he represented their best chance of improving themselves and grudgingly allowed for his presence on their team.
Oh wait, none of that happened. Because Batiuk is a hack.
I visited a new house (I do home health care) and I got bit on the toe by a dog today. She was a mutt, a mix between a Jack Russel terrier and Jabba the Hutt. There was another dog, yelping at me but staying in the corner. When I first came into the home, the patients daughter made it clear that I should not kick the white dog, because she will bite back. The implication was that it was OK to kick the other dog?
In any event, none of the family members could control either dog to get outside, or even secured in a bedroom so I could help Grandma. “These dogs control the place!” was literally what they said.
A perfect comparison to this horrible “loser makes the team” arc.
Or not.
with those sticks for arms i’d be surprised if Posey nozey could lift football
What the heck is that white thing in panel 1 supposed to be? Mickey Mouse’s glove?
Hey, did anybody else notice Peppermint Patty’s cameo in the first panel? I didn’t realize she’d fallen on hard times after “Peanuts” went into syndication. Guess the back-end royalties just weren’t there for her…
I’m don’t think it’s arrogance or pretension that makes Jarod make the “number one” sign…I mean, it could be simple optimism, which is rare enough in Westview that I’m thinking “Go, Jarod!”
So much of Funky Winkerbean is “You cannot succeed, so don’t even try. Just sit back and make fun of those who do try, so you can feel superior when they inevitably fail.” It’s nice to see someone buck the trend, even someone as borderline unpleasant as Jarod.
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Other than #65, whose facial features I can’t really interpret, the other Scapegoat football players seem more bewildered by Jarod’s gesture than incredulous about it. It is almost as if it is something they’ve read about, or seen in the movies, but have never encountered in real life. In Westview, that’s believable.
The strip has two settings for pace – Glacial or Rushed – this whole storyline requires a lot more time than he’s taken on it. It could be that he simply got bored with this pretty predestain plotline and is craming the end so he can get back to showering Les with rewards for being the bestest in the World
Prof, it’s not always easy to tell the difference between Batiuk being bored with his subject or Batiuk having low knowledge of his subject.
That white thing in P1 reminds me of Lisa’s cancer hat. It could be Lisa in to exact control or rather warn others that Posy is going down in flames. It could also be Les, having adopted Lisa’s persona and loudly wondering “Where’d that goddam Les get to?. He’s such a tool!”. While Posey goes down in flames. OR is could be just some other Westview schmuck at the game… watching Posey go down in flames.
On another matter, I seem to recall in the 70’s where the upraised index finger was indicative of a so-called “Jesus Freak.” Too little too late, Posey. Too little, too late.
Jarods smoking will lead to Lung Cancer…so who cares?
One is the loneliest number.