We haven’t had to say it in these parts for a while, but Sunday’s strip was not available for preview. With the band turkey arc having come mercifully to its conclusion, I’m betting that Sunday will be a one-off with the Winkerbeans, like the first Sunday in last December in which the Funkman behaved like a jackass while Holly attempted to shop for clothes.
- Home
- Batiuktionary
- Act III
- Other Crap
- 2017: The Bedside Manorisms in Memphis
- Batom Comics: The Untold History
- 2007 – Senior Class Trip to Washington D.C.
- 1996: Westview Post Office Bombing Arc
- 2001: Teen Pregnancy Arc
- 2003: John Byrne Steps In for Batiuk
- 2007: Darin Seeks His Birth Mother
- 2010: Funky’s Car Crash and Time Travel
- Act II “Flash” -back
- Kent State Mural by Batiuk and Ayers
- Meet Halle Dinkle
- Meet the (Act III) Cast
- Missing FW Cast Members
- The Starbuck Jones Covers
- Act IV
Funky Links
- The Official FW Blog
- funkywinkerbean.com
- Crankshaft at arcamax.com
- crankshaftcomic.com
- The Unofficial Funky Winkerbean Fan Page
- Stuck Funky
- Funky Winkerbean Cafe Press Store
Other Links
- The Comics Curmudgeon
- Mary Worth is Lit
- This Week in Milford
- 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline 988lifeline.org or dial 988
Search SoSF
SoSF on Twitter
My TweetsArchives
-
Tags
Adeela Ann Fairgood Atomik Komix basketball Batiukmobile® Batom Comics Becky Boy Lisa bricks Buddy Bull Cayla cellphone Christmas chullo Cindy Cliff Anger Cody Cody and Owen coffee Comic-Con comic books comics Cory Crazy Harry Darin Dead Skunk Head Dinkle Falling leaves Flash Freeman football Funky Funky Winkerbean Harry Dinkle hatchet face holidays Holly Hollywood hoodie Jessica John Keisha Komix Korner Les Les' yellow shirt Linda Lisa Lisa's Story Marianne Marianne Winters Mason Mason Jarr Mason Jarre Mindy Montoni's Montoni's Mopey Pete Nate Old dying people Owen Pete Phil Holt photo album corners pizza Rachel random students Ruby Lith silhouette smirk snow sports squiggly lines Starbuck Jones Summer technology traveling green shirt unnatural hand gestures Wally Westview High School Westview HS Band
Son of Stuck Funky · The web's premiere source for Funky Winkerbean snark
Son of Stuck Funky 
Whatever it is, it’ll probably suck.
I oversold it.
If only it would suck the venom out of this snakebit strip.
I wish Battyman would stop giving tips of his felt pen to real artists and start taking lessons from them.
Oh, for the love of….a western comics cover pastiche? Western comics? In 2020? With no connection to anything that’s been going on (except for the humorless callback to Mopey’s Hollywood Adventure)? And an asinine “Tim Buck” pun? And, I guess, a signal that Atomik Comix hi-jinks are lying in wait to launch us into December? This has to be the most unfunny frontier farce since the Rawhide Kid (look him up) donned his first pair of arsesless chaps.
You made me LOL. “Arseless Chaps” – that would be a great name for a British punk band.
Thanks for sending me to look up Rawhide Kid. “HE SHARES HIS SADDLE WITH DANGER”
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Rawhide+Kid&atb=v99-1&iax=images&ia=images
I remember “Rawhide Kid”, you’d often find them in the middle of a pile of old “Sgt. Rock” or “Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos” books. There was also a DC (I think) title called “Blitzkrieg”, which was (seriously) told from the German WWII point of view. “Ach du leiber! Vas ist lost?”….BLAM!!!!!
Mopey Pete spent time on Sunset Boulevard and says it was nothing? Does he mean the impact on his nonexistent skills or does he mean the fire left nothing of Sunset Boulevard?
Oh. Mopey Pete said “I waste nothing.” It looks like my eyesight is more creative than Batiuk’s writing. Although I’ll concede that this strip gave us an overabundance of nothing.
I just noticed–there’s no “First Issue” announcement on the lame-ass cover. Is this the first time an Atomik Komix character has survived the marketplace long enough to warrant a second issue?
He probably just forgot. I don’t think Atomik Komix has ever published a second issue in its existence. Everything is either a #1 or a crossover.
Atomik Komix reminds me of the “junk wax” era of trading card collecting. Everything was special inserts, refractors, subsets, and other gimmicks, all printed at ten times the volume of previous years. Needless to say, none of it has any collector’s value, and no artistic merit either.
“I waste nothing!”
Well, we want nothing, but that hasn’t stopped you, unfortunately.
Yikes. This is just pitiful, even by Sunday comic cover standards. “Plus Tim Buck…Too”…that’s just awful, even by BatHam pun standards. And the reality bubble is totally moronic, even by Sunday comic cover reality bubble standards. And the premise here is sub-atomic-level thin, even by BatYam’s infinitely low standards. And when was he on the Sunset Strip? The last time he was in California he had to literally flee from a massive wall of flame. You’d think something like that might inspire a person somehow.
The only person in the world that is allowed trauma is the Great & Might & Emotionally Intelligent Less. Only he can turn trauma into money, no one else can scam people with his (no women allowed!) trauma-porn art. These “hollow men,” nothing ever changes or touches them. I don’t think Mopey’s ever mentioned his fiancé… hollow men indeed.
If street names truly have such an influence on creativity then maybe Pete (and TB, for that matter) should spend some time on Whittier Blvd…
Wait ’til you meet the Sunset Kid’s two comic relief sidekicks, Pico and Sepulveda.
LOL I needed a second there, well done!
This is what happens when editors don’t do their jobs. The “talent” thinks it can submit just any halfassed shit they want and it’ll be accepted. Today’s strip should have sent back to Medina with the word “NO” written across it. No more sideways comic book covers, period. You’ve created Starbuck Jones, Rip Tide, Wayback Wendy, the Inedible Pulp, the Stardusters, and other entire concepts and haven’t written a single story for any of them, despite entire arcs being devoted to some of them. This time you didn’t even bother with that. This isn’t Marvel Comics Tryout Camp, Tom Batiuk. And if it were, you’re expected to submit your own work, not hire Rick Burchett and Rob Ro to do it for you for the 900th time. Do your goddamn job, and meet the very minimal standards we hold you to, or you’re fired.
I hate that vertical format!
Welcome to the Funkyverse, where everything is so lazy even the strip lies down on the job.
Why does TomBat still do these sideways Sunday strips? He has overdone those and now all it does is make those panels difficult to read Particularly if you are reading them on your phone and have autorotate turned off
No more sideways strips!
Because he wants to, and no one has ever told him he can’t.
Why?
Pete’s thought process here is just incomprehensible. He was saved from a gigantic conflagration by a hugely popular movie star and his future father-in-law was rescued from a cave full of magic robots. Then, months later, he’s “brainstorming”…”California…Sunset Strip…hmmmm, I know! A western! The Sunset Kid! And Tim Buck…too! Eureka!”. I have to assume that Atomik Komix building is just drenched in lead paint or something.
Really. Are we supposed to be impressed with Pete’s creativity here? Being rescued from an all-consuming wildfire, and his father-in-law’s life being saved in a Biblical miracle, inspired him to created the most off-topic, cliched, out-of-date comic book cover imaginable. This is the best comic book writer in the Funkyverse? No wonder Atomik Komics all suck.
Any by proxy, are we supposed to be impressed with Tom Batiuk’s creativity here? He dreams of working in comic books, but everything he does shows why the industry was right not to hire him.
AND NEVER FORGET:
Chester the Molester *literally* made Pete+Darrin the HIGHEST PAID WRITER/ARTIST COMBO IN THE INDUSTRY (!)
Tim Buck was a longtime Canadian Communist leader. Better dead than red! Or in the case of Atomik Komix, better dead than unread.
So the point of last week was to give us the following information: the perennial Thanksgiving turkey fundraiser was actually torture for Dinkle (could have fooled me) and coming up with a character’s name from a street sign while on vacation constitutes major research for Pete.
Well then…my time on Sunset Boulevard in 1985 only resulted in some epic hangovers, and one really wild threesome.
Wonder if there is a market for that as a graphic novel?
Apparently Atomik Comix will let you pitch ANYTHING, so why not?
Pitch? There’s no pitching at Atomik Komix! You get an idea, you sit down and start drawing the cover! There’s none of that tedious planning or story writing or teamwork at Atomik Komix. Everyone just does whatever they want at all times! It’s more like a day care center than a business, really.
I don’t really like most of the cape comics, but I do understand that Marvel and D.C. will never stop making them as long as they remain in style (or as the basis for summer popcorn-munchers.) Aside from a remake of “True Grit” a few years ago, the slightly more recent “The Hateful Eight,” and… I guess that DiCaprio movie in which he finally got an Oscar for eating bear meat, when did the Western come back? More to the point, when did it come back for the kid/pre-teen market?
Also, I thought Pete and Mindy were the writers while Ruby and Darren were the artists? Do comics writers do storyboards, or does Pete still think he’s in Hollywood? Does anybody like turning their newspapers/tablets/phones around and around while trying to read what’s left of the funny pages? Why does Pete look like he’s powering through a three-day hangover? WHERE IS WAYBACK WENDY?!
Obvious Clint Eastwood ripoff? “Tim Buck Too”? Jesus Fuckin’ Christ — Is this what passes as original creativity??
At least bring it into the modern era and ripoff Arthur Morgan from Red Dead Redemption 2 because at least the current millennial audience will recognize him…
I forgot about Red Dead Redemption when I was doing my rant, but that’s still not for kids… Great work, Pete!
Atomik isn’t for kids, either. Their core audience is clearly nostalgic boomers, senior citizens and wannabe hipsters… Because I promise you the average college student has never even heard the term “spaghetti western”
Another example of the absolute poverty of Batiuk’s imagination. Does he think any reader will look at this and think, “I sure wish that was a real comic book!”?
Does he think DC and Marvel are reading his strip, and thinking “What awesome ideas! We have GOT to hire this guy!”?
Pete’s “I waste nothing” is one of the major problems with this strip. Some ideas SHOULD be discarded, but that’s not what Tom Batiuk thinks. If an idea occurs to him, it goes into the strip. No stopping for thought, no worries about quality control or continuity…anything really.
Also, “I waste nothing” would be more of a virtue if Pete ever did more than one thing with it. Any random thought that flits into his head becomes yet another comic book cover for a never-to-be-developed franchise. He’s more of an avatar for Tom Batiuk than either of them knows.