21 thoughts on “Sunday Funkies”

  3. I have to say that it took me a few moments to fully grasp it but once I figured out what was going on with this one I began to realize I have just witnessed FW’s worst bit of wordplay EVER. “Walk and roll”…sweet mother of God that is f*cking bad. The rest of it blows too, with the assembled generations of Moores/half-Moores and quarter-Moores joined by a disembodied Les head, snidely sneering over the scene like the Lisa prophet/martyr he is as his long-lost daughter (ugh) Summer re-emerges from her banishment, perky as ever. I mean hey, it’s his comic strip and if he wants to hawk his charity once a year what’s the harm? But yikes man, “walk and roll”??? You just cannot in good conscience expect people to give money to a charity associated with a gag that bad. Unless they enjoy that sort of thing, in which case…uh, yeah.

    Are any of you wondering which Westviewian ended up with #69? I’m not, I was just, you know, wondering. If any of you were. And check out that Summer face in panel three, it’s just so rage-inducing. God how I haven’t missed her at all.

  4. Whenever there’s a strip like this, even if it annoys me, I just think, “at least it’s not Les being too beautiful for this fallen world”.

  5. Yup! I slapped my knee and it gave me cancer! It’s that time of the year already? And why is Les the one appearing in the weird opening panel? It’s as though his disembodied head decided to come grace the event with his smugness.

  6. The disembodied legs in the second panel really creep me out. And I’m pretty sure the artist just forgot what Summer’s supposed to look like and didn’t care to look it up. Just like he changed the one redhead to a blonde.

  7. Only Les can succeed. Only Les and his ideas can prevail. Only Les can rule. Only Les can truly be a rounded human being…all others must be the toys of the evil gods.

    All must worship Les, and all his works. ALL MUST WORSHIP LES AND ALL HIS WORKS.

  9. So it’s a joke loaf, then.

    Well, now we know that Batiuk had nothing to do with the administration of the real Lisa’s Legacy Run, since he’d know that to get a bib, you had to register and pay your entry fee weeks/months ago. They don’t just hand them out randomly to anyone who shows up. It’s called event planning.

    Anyway, I followed the web address just to see what, if anything, is going on with the “Legacy” now that the race itself is defunct. I was bitterly amused by this line in the middle of the “Get a Lisa Moore Silver Pin for your donation” description:

    “This beautiful antique silver pin symbolizes the courage and hope shown by cancer patients and their loved ones”.

    I’m guessing the person who wrote that line never actually read Lisa’s Story.

  10. It’s so abrupt too, this was the last thing I was expecting to see today. I mean go ahead and pimp the cancer fund but damn man, put a little effort into it. That joke is an atrocity against jokes themselves. It’s so bad it might merit a class-action lawsuit.

  11. Hey, there, Summer. I actually missed you.

    Oh, gee whiz. If you ever see Jessica Darling in the strip, you *know* the PUNchline is gonna suck!

    (By the way, you can actually read her father’s (yes, the one Who Was Murdered) strip on Google Newspapers! Titles: Youngstown-Vindicator (1979 to 1984) and The Vindicator (1984 to the very–gulp–end). It was acually a good/funny strip. And JD is actually a pretty good guy. Egotistical and brainless, but good, and NOT obsessed with “Barbie”.

    Good night!

  12. So, a day after all the ludicrousness of Goat Boy, Batiuk waves Lisa’s death at us again. And people wonder why I keep harping about the lack of realism in this strip.

  13. The other irritating thing is that he’s all but admitting that he only sees Summer as a reminder of Saint Dead Lisa. She’s not a person in her own right with a story to tell….she’s there to Remind Us Of The Human Cost Of making a stupid, theatrical gesture that proved what a passive idiot she was in lifeCancer.

  14. The other irritating thing is that he’s all but admitting that he only sees Summer as a reminder of Saint Dead Lisa.

    You know, you’re right. I think the last time Summer showed up when it wasn’t a Lisa-heavy storyline was when Les and Cayla wanted them to spend some of their vacation time with them, around New Year’s 2013.

    So much for Summer being special. She’s just like all of the other characters that Batiuk only brings out when he wants to flog the one issue he associates with them.

  15. Um- if this is the 15th Annual Lisa’s Legacy Run and the WHS football team posed for what Bull said was the 2014 team picture the week before last, that means that Les started the Lisa’s Legacy Run in 1999, eight years before Lisa died (which sounds like something Les would do, but still, c’mon Batiuk).

  16. @Helskor–unlike any other fiction time jump, Batiuk’s had the effect not of pushing its characters forward into the future, but retroactively pushing their prior actions ten years into the past. C’mon indeed.

  17. Summer has grown into a fine young man.

    This was a wasted opportunity to show the gazebo, I can’t believe he dropped the ball on that.

    I’ve never seen black t-shirts given out at a charity walk/run before, but it fits the Westview world.

  21. Let’s be accurate: this is pasteurized process joke text & graphics loaf.

    The black frames on the Sunday strips are really starting to get creepy. Tone-deaf as usual over at Batomic Industries, or whatever he calls himself.

    I don’t know how to feel about the pun in the final panel. Boy Lisa is wearing only a Level 1 smirk, and Blonde Filmnonmaker’s mouth is only 2 inches out of place. If the pun were funny, their grimaces would be where ears usually dwell, and I would laff & laff & laff.

    @Orbiter suggests the following emergency joke repair: “Let’s walk & stroll”. Kudos. Here’s my take: Blondie McVideotape looks like a young Robert Plant, so TB should have worked in a joke involving the lyrics to “Rock & Roll”: “It’s been a long time since I did the stroll.”

    Where’s the whisky?

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