It’s Batiuk’s party and he can pull long-absent characters out of his ass if he wants to. Mickey is Linda’s daughter from a previous whatever. I can’t get my hands on those Act I strips but as a teen, Mickey was seen hanging out at Montoni’s. Bull’s “how’s your kicking leg” query is only half in jest: if he can get away with putting the team mascot in the game, what’s to stop him from recruiting an adult female?
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Son of Stuck Funky 
Did Batiuk forget that Bull’s daughter’s name is Jinx? And what she looks like?
Mickey? Man, that’s as obscure as it gets. Does TB seriously believe there’s anyone anywhere who remembers Mickey or the arc they’re referencing? For five days he’s been studiously avoiding telling the story of the Scapegoats playoff run, now all of a sudden he’s referencing ancient long-forgotten arcs featuring long-forgotten characters? This Mickey is so obscure she doesn’t even appear on the official FW site, which is a virtual graveyard of obscure and forgotten characters. This Batom guy is a total nutcase, I’ll tell you what. Nice (guffaw) drawing too, BTW.
Mickey? Is she related to Fred’s daughter Kerry?
Her leg?? How about her face?!?
Everyone, carefully look at her face. If you can deal with a post-Halloween scare that is. That is Funky’s face. Seriously, just remove the hair and it’s pretty obvious that’s Funky.
I get that comic strips need to reuse art. They have to be published regularly and it’s not like there’s much support staff. But he really didn’t have any stock art of a young woman that he could use? Jessica, Lisa, Summer, Keisha, Cayla, Rachel or anyone else?
Oh, by the way, we’ve got a minor character being brought back into the story with no explanation as to who she is or why she’s relevant. By the rules of my game, time to take a drink.
The problem that isn’t Bull stealing from a late sixties/early seventies Disney film is something I like to call “Creeping Foobism.” Batiuk knows who this person is so assumes that we do because of what sound engineers call a short between the headphones.
For the love of God, tell me someone makes a copy of every FW strip. We need to save this. Future generations won’t understand the absurdity of it unless we make a copy and show them that it really was an actual strip. They’re think it was some weird fan thing like The Square Root of Minus Garfield.
Mickey is Token Latina Numero Dos (after her madre, Linda) & she looks like Rosie Perez, the new Token Latina on “The View”. TB is keeping up with trends!
I think Mickey was pre-Bull relationship. Linda was the edgy ethnic single mom. And then Cayla was the edgy ethnic single mom. Neither was sainted, and both had to marry douchey white guys to pay for their sins. Jinx was traded to another comic strip for cash and future considerations.
How old is Mickey, and how little life does she have that travelling back to her hometown from who-knows-where for a high school football game is an exciting development?
She must live in small-town Ohio, where they worship high school football programs.
“Hm,” Bull thinks, “how can I possibly win this upcoming championship game? Say–if I use Mickey, we might just have a chance! Heaven knows I can’t rely on actual athletes, they’re utterly useless.”
Gyre–if you want to see a classic example of Tom Batiuk reusing character art, checkout the Comics Curmudgeon archives in (I think) February of 08. Funky is being interviewed by a woman who looks exactly like present-day Cayla. In the strip during this time, Cayla still looks African American.
One of the invariant conditions of the Funkiverse (such as “it always rains torrentially during battle of the bands week”) is that the football team IS terrible, and HAS ALWAYS BEEN TERRIBLE. Today we find out that, not only has this year’s team inexplicably progressed to the championship game by virtue of completing one trick play with an ineligible player, but that IT IS NOT THE FIRST TIME this team has won a championship. This type of continuity violation might be permissible if this were still a gag-a-day strip, but since TB made the leap to a foob-format strip that actually [attempts to] follow the lives of the characters in a coherent way, continuity violations are just not acceptable. You can’t just make this shit up as you go along and not expect the beady-eyed nitpickers to call you out on it.
It’s just so unbelievably random. If he wanted to stroll down memory lane, why not do a “remember when…?” arc regarding WHS football? But nope, instead he spent most of the week repeating the premise and generally farting around with wordplay-based gags. Then, at the end of the week, he throws the most obscure character he can find into the mix, just to further confuse the handful of people still reading this thing. Unreal.