Who’s popping in the door at Montoni’s
Moping about her lack of romance
Who’s being condescending to Holly
Everyone knows it’s Cindy
And Cindy has forlorn eyes
That drop as she now realize
-es that maybe she is no prize
For Mason Jarr
For Mason Jarr
Apologies to The Association.
Son of Stuck Funky 
There’s more wit and humor in your comment than years of Batiukian wordplay. Charmed and charmING? That’s not humor.
So wait, the entire point of this was to make Cindy feel even more terrible, old, ugly and unwanted then before? Damn, some blonde must have really pissed Batiuk off in high school.
And wouldn’t Holly know that he went back to Hollywood, since he was there to read her comics?
This is seriously pathetic.
So, that was the entire point of Mason Jarr the Actor’s presence in Westview. All the single ladies go gaga over him, he leaves, single ladies are bereft. Once again, Funky Winkerbean has pushed the boundaries of low expectations.
@TheDive, The point of Mason’s visit was to set up a very special FW nine months from now when all fertile ladies of Westview give birth. The hilarity ensues when all the children are mixed up and no one cares. After all in Westview children are interchangeable props.
Once again, Batom® redefines “anti-humor.” And not in a good way.
Man, no one takes a story from point A to point Q like the BanMan can. The tangents this guy goes off on are just so breathtakingly dumb, you can’t help but be awed by the rock solid consistency of the incompetence. “Mason Jarr Is Coming!” to Cindy crying in her pizza, who the hell saw THAT coming, huh?
So, Mason pulled the old “gazeboed and dumped” routine on poor, desperate and aging Cindy now, did he? Guess what Cindy, men don’t respect women who flaunt their local gazebo on the first date and they sure as hell don’t call you the day after a time-freezing century connection wave or whatever either. Next time a movie star visits Westview to read someone’s comic books, maybe save the gazebo for the second or third date, or just let him glimpse it from the car window or something. Maybe I’m just old fashioned and maybe it’s all the rage among these kids today, but I just think you really need to get to know a person before you start whipping your gazebo out right there in front of some out-of-towner you just met. Cindy spent way too much time hanging around those Big City “anything goes” gazebos if you ask me.
This reminds me of a classic MST3K riff: “A stranger comes to town, touches no one’s life, and leaves.”
Glippity marf Gloppity chompary Gloop.
Makes as much sense as a Batiuk strip. In fact, it’s the central theme of my strip “Tell Don’t Show”.
It will immediately have more distribution than “Pearls Before Swine” and “Lio” because those strips show such hack concepts as artwork and writing.
Shakespeare you are not, Cindy.
Of course Tom would create a Valentine’s Day arc (no matter how predictable or illogical!) that ends with somebody depressed and moping. I guess this means that things are back to “normal” for now.
Given last Sunday’s Douglas Adams–themed strip, we have to assume that BanTom has read some of Adams’s oeuvre, without the merest scintilla of that late author’s humor or wit rubbing off onto him.
What a pity!
And thus is Funky avenged for being jerked around by a shallow manipulator who didn’t know her place. This was the whole point of her character arc, I should think: to remind us that girls who decide things for themselves need to be slapped down so that fragile egos like Funky’s can’t be threatened ever.
I don’t read this strip regularly, but I think it’s nice that teenage girl and her middle-aged mother can still talk like this even though she’s in college now.
You nailed it, Diva. Of all the possibilities that there were in the Mason Jarr arc, if you take the least interesting possible outcome and divide it by 100, you get today’s strip. The “punchline” barely makes sense. I guess she’s saying that it’s her who is usually breaking the heart of some other hapless fool, and Mason has turned the tables on her? That she’s getting old and losing her touch with men?
One thing’s for sure. After this week, Cory and Rocky will get back in the transporter beam and go back to Afghanistan, never to be heard of again until he needs to bring them back for some other pointless cameo appearance.
Sum-mor and Special K were busy on V-Day playing at home against NIU. The Kent State ladies are now 4-19.
It’s hard to snark on a storyline with such a moronic premise in the first place. Really? Hollywood Movie Actor goes to East Bumflip, Ohio to read comic books to prepare for a role? I’m not a Pulitzer Nominated “author” like BatTwit, but I would have expected (going with this premise) to see Masonn Jar The Hollywood Movie Actor discovering Deep Insights about his character, and boasting how his character was going to take on a whole new dimension, yadda yadda dee yadda dee doo. Instead, the focus of this arc was 54 year old Cyndi (drawn to look between 17 and 25 years old) doing a love at first sight thing with Masonn Jar, then feeling abandoned when he abruptly split under cover of darkness.
It would be a real improvement in Batso’s work if he went back to writing shit, instead of shit that makes no sense at all.
Ha Ha woman! Feel misery and loss because – well I’m not sure I have issues with women and it tends to get in the way of my story telling ability… but anyway Ha Ha woman! Pine away!
Any “second wives” on here? How would you feel about your husband’s more youthful, attractive and accomplished ex hanging around every day?
Meanwhile, BillytheSkink steps up to the podium to collect the prize of one gold-plated internets. Well played.
PS, as a word geek, I love the enjambment of lines 6-7. Now that’s called writing.
Bricks! Bricks! Oodles and oodles of BRICKS! This Bartrick guy is an ARTIST, I tell ya! An ARTIST! And floor tiles! Lotsa floor tiles!
And bricks!
Never mind that 19 year old Cindy looks to have gained a hundred pounds in the next to last panel, in silhouette. Never mind that she’s obviously way too far away from the window to cast an image that big from the outside. Only Beady Eyed Nitpickers care about consistent drawing of characters and perspective.
What matters is the bricks. In loving detail! Building bricks! Sidewalk bricks! Listen to me: This guy can draw bricks!
And tiles.
… and bricks!
Well.. I know SOMEBODY is going to be giving a scathing review of Starbuck Jones on local TV!!! Hell hatch no fury like a Wesviewian women mildly irritated, Mason Jarr.
But seriously, what the hell was the point of all this. Nothing effing happened here!
The only thing that got accomplished is that Batiuk gave his 59 (including us) reader’s a reason to hate Valentine’s day.
Seriously…someone needs to get Tom Batiuk some medication, STAT!!
It was almost one year ago when the “Cindy isn’t pretty enough anymore to host the national TV news” arc began, Feb. 17th, 2014. Interesting how he feels the urge to kick Cindy around immediately after Valentine’s Day, isn’t it? Sure, maybe it’s just a coincidence. Maybe he doesn’t have any weird sort of vindictive bitterness toward the Cindy character and perhaps he didn’t bring her back to mock her slow painful decline. Maybe it’s all part of some big overarching plot twist we’re just not seeing yet. Could be, but for now it just seems kind of spiteful to me.