17 thoughts on “Monday, October 20”

  3. “Will no one rid me of this meddlesome Les?”

    Seriously, Mr. Batiuk–enough Les. He is the worst character of ALL TIME. No more of him. It’s time to put him to rest for a while…preferably in a knotty-pine coffin. If I had my druthers, he’d be headless with garlic cloves stuffed down his throat, and the coffin would have iron spikes on the inside, but I know, baby steps, baby steps… Let’s start with the coffin.

  4. I think Funky represents the FW reader here, groaning in weary disgust as another pointless piece of shit arc featuring Les Moore begins. And Les represents you-know-who, smirking in smug self-satisfaction in anticipation of a plodding week of bad wordplay centering around how pathetic Funky is, especially when compared to the very successful (and fit) Les.

    Or maybe it represents the work (ha) of a boring old hack who sleepily churns out slightly different variations on the same tired premises year after year after plodding year, like clockwork. “Les is amused as his dying pal barely survives their jogging session”, yeah, it’s been covered, believe it or not. Ugh.

  6. “Eyes melt, skin explodes, everybody dead!” Now that could improve this strip!

    Jef Mallett does his best to ruin Frazz by channelling his running addiction through the title character. Tom Batiuk quite evidently despises his title character, but that’s not the same, because Marty Stu—I mean Les Moore—is Batiuk’s author avatar. Batiuk! Thy name is smugness!

    Quoth one of my favorite posters, Beckoning Chasm:

    Seriously, Mr. Batiuk—enough Les. He is the worst character of ALL TIME. No more of him. It’s time to put him to rest for a while…preferably in a knotty-pine coffin. If I had my druthers, he’d be headless with garlic cloves stuffed down his throat, and the coffin would have iron spikes on the inside, but I know, baby steps, baby steps… Let’s start with the coffin.

    What astounds me is that nobody to whom Tom Batiuk will listen has ever told him this. Maybe all of Tom’s friends are sycophants, or maybe he listens to literally no one. It’s impossible to tell from this vantage point, here in reality land.

    Funky himself looks worse in panel three than his literally demented father, whose name Tom Batiuk has recently decided is Mort, the French word for death. I myself am older than Funky, and, despite being a short, fat, reprobate imbiber, look better than his teetotalling title character. Mr. Batiuk must really hate whoever is the character model for Funky Winkerbean.

  7. Wordplay that doesn’t make much sense? Check.
    Funky looking like a 60 year old? Check.
    Les being an insufferable prick? Check.

  9. Let’s hope this is the week Funky has the heart attack, you can see BatHack leading up to this “surprise” story twist.

  10. @oddonc, “What astounds me is that nobody to whom Tom Batiuk will listen has ever told him this. Maybe all of Tom’s friends are sycophants, or maybe he listens to literally no one. It’s impossible to tell from this vantage point, here in reality land.”

    I have a Sister like this. She only half listens to what anyone says to her because she is so busy thinking about what she wants to say next, whether or not it advances to conversation. When she latter recalls the conversation she fills in the parts she didn’t listen to, to fit her version of reality. So TB’s friends (there’s a thankless job) could be screaming at him about the strip problems, but he’ll never hear them because he doesn’t want to.

  13. Seriously – if he was anymore impressed with himself he’d fall into his own arms and begin to make out. Any why? Because he gets up early? Talk about a low bar.

  14. First he spends the entire summer on a “Hollywood” arc that goes absolutely nowhere. Then the cancer fun run. Then two more weeks of Les jabbering about another “book” he “wrote”. Now a week of miserable wordplay and endless whining. When Batiuk gets stuck on Les, he goes all out with it.

  15. Did the sun go supernova in Westview or something? Are they living that “Twilight Zone” episode where the sun never came up due to racism? Did the inker’s new dream job come through and he finally said “I’ve had enough of inking this tripe. Screw you Batiuk!!”. The world may never no.

  17. @Professor: He already pretty much made out with himself on that one New Year’s Eve.
    And this just brings up what I’ve always thought was weird. How Les is lean and fit and (in the reality of the strip, apparently) attractive, and Funky is always portrayed as a fat tub of lard one set of stairs away from a massive heart attack. Even though their diet has got to be pretty much the same, and Funky’s been shown to exercise more than Les.

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