Saturday’s Crankshaft is a great example of a comic strip that is innocuous, but infuriating if you ever paid attention to the Funkyverse.
On the surface, it looks like a particularly mawkish installment of Pluggers. Oh, for the good old days, when store operators used mechanical 1970 Grocery Game-style cash registers and memorized where everything was. (Implied: instead of using computers, which Tom Batiuk is known to dislike.) Continue reading “Practice What You Preach”
Hey folks! I know it’s been forever since I posted here, but I couldn’t let SoSF’s 14th Anniversary go unremarked. Since picking up the torch from the original Stuck Funky, we’ve carried on as a fun and diverse community. It’s indeed heartening to see how this blog has managed to outlast its raison d’être. Though it’s certain that Tom Batiuk gets to enjoy the last laugh. He folded up his FW franchise, but moved the Funky cast to the Crankshaft universe. This he accomplished by spending weeks’ worth of FW strips undoing and “mopping up” all the incongruities between the two worlds, which had long been supposed to take place at least a decade apart. Continue reading “SoSF’s 14th Anniversary”
Not long after I posted about last week’s arc about a real-world eclipse, regular poster J.J. O’Malley compared it to a Peanuts arc from June 15-20, 1963, which also coincided with a real-world eclipse. Several other posters also chimed in about the comparison:
Oh, if only I had faith that TB was funny enough to just rip this off completely…
billytheskink, https://sonofstuckfunky.com/2024/04/03/total-eclipse-of-the-old-fart/#comment-169174
Well, he did rip it off completely. The rest of it, not so much. Continue reading “Tom Batiuk Stole A Punchline. He Forgot To Steal The Premise.”
So this week’s Crankshaft plot has been about Ed renting out space at Pam and Jeff’s house to view the upcoming solar eclipse. Or, as a Comics Curmudgeon poster put it:
Tom Batiuk saw that the 2024 eclipse would pass right through Ohio, and immediately thought, “How can Crankshaft be a horrible person about this?”
https://joshreads.com/2024/04/the-only-fools-here-are-all-of-us/#comment-2783092
Credit where it’s due, though: this is a timely, Ohio-relevant story, which we rarely get in the Funkyverse. The total eclipse will happen next Monday, April 8, and the path of totality will pass over the Cleveland metropolitan area. Since we don’t know exactly where Centerville is – and it’s implied to be a far-out Cleveland suburb anyway – the story is highly relevant. Continue reading “Total Eclipse Of The (Old) Fart”
I hope that all of you who celebrate the season had a very Happy Easter. I made the mistake of offering to host our family’s celebration at my place this year, and I was exhausted last night! After cooking enough steak to choke a T-Rex, and littering my house with so many ceramic bunnies you’d think I’d petrified the cast of Watership Down, I collapsed.
So just a short post today. While I was melting together an unholy concoction of Velveeta, butter, sour cream, and sharp cheddar, I was talking to my housemate and we realized that she had never seen the Skunky Funkybuns stand up sketch by the late, great Dan Ronan. So I pulled it up for her to watch real quick. She thought it was amazing, but wondered if the part where the Batiuk expy hit a guy with his car was based on anything. I didn’t used to think so. I thought it was just a funnier stand in for Batiuk using his own experiences with cancer to write Lisa’s Story. But last week I did a little archive dive to that had me flipping through some volumes of Funky Winkerbean that I hadn’t looked at quite as closely before, and maybe Dan was referencing this arc from Act I instead? Anyone else remember this one? Continue reading “A Big Hit!”
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