12 thoughts on “Thursday, July 10”

  1. Sometimes you check out the new FW and you can’t help but be amused by how terrible it is. But sometimes you see it and all you can think is “God I despise these f*cking morons with every fiber of my being”. This is one of the latter days. Typical BatSnore, telling instead of showing. The wild and insane convention floor is merely a background for idiotic banter and stunningly awful wordplay between three characters no one likes. They make the whole thing look about as entertaining as a visit to the post office. And the way he captures the utter zaniness of SDCC via his rendering of the outside of the venue is just crazy, man. That SDCC sure is lucky because you can’t just buy promotion like that.

  3. What might bug me most about Batiuk is how he sets up storylines and then doesn’t even deliver on the bare minimum you’d expect, even from him. You’d think Comic-Con would be a change to show off crazy comic homages, but apparently the only way he wants to do that is through Starbuck Jones covers. You’d think a woman investigating her father’s murder would have some suspense, but no, not even when she spends half a week walking from her car. Most of his plots have real potential for both humor and drama, but he just seems to take the easy, lazy way out. I think it’s pretty much exemplified in a mother searching for rare comics for her soldier son and just being told where to go to have them handed to her.

  4. This means that even his swing at cosplayers is going to be anemic. (And out of date as he’ll be making “I’m with Cap/Iron Man/Hulk” jokes.)

  6. Assuming these 3 kept aging after the latest time jump, Holly and Crazy are in their early 50’s. Isn’t that quite a bit older than the typical fanboy attending this convention?

    I know Batiuk was there last year as a panelist, he literally features every convention he ever attended in this strip (see last year’s loving depiction of a Ohio band leaders convention). He needs to go to more interesting places.

  8. This appears to be a half-baked parody of a well known scene from Star Wars. That TB didn’t go all the way with the parody is not surprising. Another opportunity missed.

    Despite never having attended a comics convention, I am aware 60 year-old Luke Skywalkers and heavyset Wonder Women are things that appear at them. I am less sure about Holly and DSH’s backpacks, which look like painted, unseal-able, grocery sacks that can somehow can be worn the way they are. Holly’s appears to have Starbuck Jones on it.

  10. Fantastic, Mr. Batiuk, fantastic. Wordplay like this (substituting “rectangle” for “triangle”—oh—my—god!) is the highest form of comedy, literature, and art, and I love the tie-in to geometry, which is a class that exists in high school. Your strip is the finest in the comic pages, and truly is a reality-based comic strip that depicts contemporary issues affecting young adults in a thought-provoking and sensitive manner—on a daily basis, I might add.

    Not.

    Next: the comedy of errors that Batominc has already spoiled in that interview. Holly will just miss getting the SJ issue that she needs, just like Lisa just missed getting a timely diagnosis. Laffs abound.

    Then, Batominc has already—threatened?—promised?—to ply us with other comedy gems that he’s dredging up from his elementary-school days. Because what a “reality-based comic strip that depicts contemporary issues affecting young adults in a thought-provoking and sensitive manner” really needs is the sophisticated entertainment that only a 10-year-old boy can conceive.

  12. What’s with the back of Holly’s head? Did she lose neck weight? She’s been cleverly retconned into a 20 year old. Can Slave-Leia Holly be far behind?

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