Monday’s strip was not available for preview. I’m going to guess it’ll be the start of the threatened “Funky-Crankshaft” crossover, and it will involve Pete and Mindy going to the state fair. There, they’ll talk about how melancholy it all is.
Sorry for pulling a Batiukian move like this, but I’ve got early morning work tomorrow and can’t stay late enough for the thing to drop.
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He wanted to go with Blondie McBoobs but figured that would be too witty and literary for the Twitter tots.
“Kitch Swoon”…I have to assume this will involve (sigh) comic book-related art of some kind. Perhaps it’ll be an arc about how (sigh) annoying hipster speculators have (sigh) ruined comic book art somehow, as we know how BatHack feels about that “topic”, so to speak. Just seeing that he’s still stuck on (sigh) Boy Lisa does not bode well for this arc or anything else, really.
Batiuk has been going hardcore in the “whimsical” name department lately. I really don’t like it.
Kitsch Swoon should have called dibbs on a better name.
Great. A character with a stupid name put there for the purpose of Batiuk of having Very Deep Thoughts about a subject that he is deliberately misinformed about. This is called “Monday.”
I have to resort to bullet points because I got a few things to say:
Kitsch makes her swoon, what with her delicate effete sensibilities. Does she (a) get a pie in her face (b) become a True Believer in the magic of comic books or (c) fade into the background as her chauffeur makes a cryptic phone call?
I assume (sigh) she “swoons” over “kitsch” and her request for “professional help” has to mean this involves some sort of (sigh) original comic book-related art or memorabilia. Maybe she’s the sap who shelled out for the Phil Holt collection at that auction or maybe she somehow stumbled upon a trove of old Starbuck Jones crap or something.
Her name is Swoon because she’s a girl. Girls swoon.
I smell a scathing denouncement of speculation in comic book art. So which is it? Is it disgraceful to treat comic art as any other medium to be bought and sold, or is it totally OK to sell off a collection of original art given to you by a sad old man, because Dead Lisa said so?
But of course it’s ok for Batty to get a check, because he is an artist.
Couldn’t her name be “Kitschy?” That at least sounds like a girl’s name. And it goes better with “Swoon.” You don’t have to say “tsch” and “sw” back to back. “Cliff Anger” sounds a lot more real. It’s corny, but you can imagine an actor giving themself a stage name like that.
Kitch Swoon coming in to offer Jess a job the second she moves back…continuing FW’s totally unrealistic portrayal of nobody ever being unemployed for long
Side question: if “Batiuk” is pronounced “Battick”, then “Batiukian” must rhyme with “Vatican.” For some reason, I find this amusing.
You mean, the home of an old guy who’s declared himself infallible and is surrounded by people who tell him and everyone else he’s the greatest?
Yeah, that. Also, it makes last week’s title “Batiukian Butt Banter” a lot funnier.
To paraphrase Dorothy Parker “What fresh Comic Book Hell is this?”