Storybored

Today’s strip is simultaneously one of the most realistic and unrealistic FW strips in recent memory.

That a film studio outside of The Asylum (and maybe not even them) would hire a pizzeria manager to draw storyboards for a movie, even a straight-to-cellphone one, is tremendously unrealistic of course.

That Jessica is super eager to pack up her young son and everything they own and get out of Westview as fast as possible… Does this make too much real-life sense to actually happen in the Batiukverse?

22 thoughts on “Storybored”

  1. So Darin’s moving out there without a guarantee, or a job offer, or anything more than his high school buddy saying he can get him a temporary job? And you wonder why he’s working part-time at Montoni’s, given that he has an M.B.A. . . .

  2. “Have I mentioned that I really love you, Jess?”

    “Oh, My Father John Darling Who Was Murdered would be proud of me, his little Barbie doll…”

    I still want to know where Boy Lisa the Fair Good Grief got his ghastly nose job at.

  4. “Well Jess, at the pace SJ is going we’ll probably be leaving in four or five years. Now let’s talk about it some more.”

    Noteworthy only because Boy Lisa actually appears in it…with dialog, too! IMO Batiuk can’t run this nitwit out of town fast enough, what a snore. And what does it matter to Jessica anyway, it isn’t like she has anything better to do.

  5. “I don’t really have any issues with moving out to LA…after all, I gave up any trace of hopes, dreams, or personality the minute I finished my documentary about My Father John Darling Who Was Murdered. I guess I can feel my soul gradually withering away there as well as I can here…”
    “Thanks Jessica, you’re the best!”

  6. Anyone remember Frankie’s buddy from Hollywood giving Jess Durrwood his business card and telling her to call him if she ever goes to LA? Because of her awesome camera skills when filming Summer seated, reading from a diary? Foreshadowing, people.

  7. I would love to offer some wonderful kind of snark on the contextual absurdity of the last sentence, or how weird Jess’ face looks in the second panel, but this strip has just managed to bore the piss out of me.

  9. Well, staying in Westview means getting fat and disillusioned, and having your dreams crushed. At best, you can shadow Les Moore and tell him how smart, wonderful and insightful he is.

    Yeah, I’d take that storyboarding job even if it was for Roger Corman, or, worse, Charles Band. Hey, at least it has nothing to do with Les Moore.

  10. The real joke seems to be that Jess doesn’t understand that she’s been told that only Boy Lisa is allowed to participate in the murder of the movie. Remember, this is a person who thinks women are stupid because they don’t understand the point of funny books and wish he were still a smug, condescending and out of touch freshman comp teacher.

  13. The Asylum? Hell, not even the Violent Shitters of Hamburg would stoop to hiring a pizza manager.

  14. So what’s the over/under for how many members of the Westview Nepotism Mafia find a job or some other involvement on this big-budget Hollywood production? We have to be up to seven now, right?

  17. I like the eagerness with which Jess wants out of this popsicle stand, an eagerness made even more special because a while ago she made a big noise about how she was giving up her idea of doing a documentary on her father, John Darling who was murdered, and instead settle down quietly and live in Westville doing the odd wedding video.
    I like to think that she no badly regrets that decision and is willing to do anything to get the hell out of here. To quote Capt. Renault “it’s the romantic in me.”

  18. Today’s New York Times crossword puzzle had a 5 letter word for the product of a comics page artist. Given I read Funky Winkerbean, my first thought was “shits”

  19. My first thought was, if there was a fourth panel, it would be TFHackett’s third panel with the word “But” in front of it

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