Author: sosfdavido

Dot The Eyes

Hi folks! SoSfDavidO here with another sneak peek into the workings of what went into making a comic book way back in the early 2000s in today’s strip.

Hey, great, just what this strip needs, another pudgy bald white guy that’s impossible to tell from another! I’m not sure what’s going on with Pete’s eyes but I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt on drugs and chalk it up to late night 4-Chan browsing sessions while downing a 6-pack of Jolt Cola.

Panel three Pete looks– well, I can’t read that expression at all but I think Batuik was going for “shocked” at the idea of of killing off a superhero for ratings. I mean, it’s not like DC Comics did that way back in 1992 or something.

It’s when in the Funkytime line, the early oughts? Comic companies were already crapping out zombie-variant themed books with multiple foil covers and crossing storylines over in such a way you had to buy 16 comics a month just to follow your favorite X-Man. The fact it’s all about the moolah should have been obvious to Pete even back in Westview when he was a collector.

Repete Week

Hi folks! SoSfDavidO here with a tip o the Funky Fedora for Beckoning Chasm’s most excellent stint here snarking! I feel like I’m following a bear on a unicycle juggling flaming chainsaws but here goes my hand at snarking on today’s strip.

From the looks of things, the Mr. Sponge story is still going on. Forgive me for a stifled yawn, but I don’t find story arcs about comic book writers all that… ABSORBING. Let’s SEA what TomBat came come up with after WETTING our appetite last week for this comic drama.

From the looks of things, it’s some kind of Popeye cross over? Is that misshapen blob wearing circus pants supposed to be recognizable as a human being? A word balloon is coming out of it, so I guess so.

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Buckle up, ’cause we’re about to be treated to a full week of Tombat imagining what it was like to work for a major comic publisher in the early 2000s!

Trite Christmas

Hrm. SoSfDavidO here, and I’m not sure how to properly snark on today’s strip. It starts off harmless enough, basically a rehash of the last few strips but ends up careening into territory that previously TomBat had designated as a Very Special Issue.

For the record, PTSD is a very serious issue afflicting a lot of people today, and not just combat soldiers. Sure, laughter is the best medicine, but I wonder if Wally was in earshot of this silly exchange.

Cranky Little XMas

It’s SoSfDavidO here! Just in case we’re not sure that it’s Crankshaft playing Santa in today’s strip ,Tombat has lovingly drawn Santa’s face sliding off, revealing the bitter, unhappy alcoholic diabetic arthritic husk of a man underneath, which causes the already somewhat frightened child to start sweating bullets of fear in panel 2. Thankfully, today’s strip ends there, before Crankshaft can launch into an offensive tirade about Jews ruining Christmas, immigrant labor depressing wages, welfare mooches and what’s next, people marrying horses!?