Category: Son of Stuck Funky

Burn, baby, burn!

Link to what Bats hath wrought.

Wow. An entire week of Starbuck Jones and every bit of it has been peripheral to the actions of Funky Winkerbean regular cast members. I have to take back all the nasty things I’ve said about the writing in this strip – it’s obvious that Tom Batiuk is a genius – he’s managed to bring about a whole new comic (Starbuck Jones) while keeping the science fiction out and revolving the story entirely around the residents of his beloved Westview Ohio. Truly he is a master of his craft. Though I have to say that it would have been nice if there had been just a teeny bit of Mason Jarr hamming it up, or Marianne Winters’ cute little implied butt. No matter, there are still a few years to go until Bats gets that Lifetime Doodler Award or whatever, so I guess there’s plenty of time to inflict entertain us with the continuing interweaving of Funky Winkerbean and Starbuck Jones.

Oh, yeah, and before I forget – my wish was granted, too!

Mason, please, for the love of all that is holy, have Holly do her her Flaming Baton act.

— Me.

One last thing…we joke about this movie being “straight to cell phone” bad, but c’mon. We all know how bad it’s really going to be.

 

And…that’s it for my turn in the barrel. Beckoningchasm will be here tomorrow with some more high-quality snark, and I’ll be back in the comment section ruining T-Bat’s artwork.

Get Me Outta Here

Link to today’s strip.

Cool, so the bus driver who knew a shortcut home is lost. And it’s funny because that’s not a cop, it’s an actor! But the driver doesn’t know that! Even though he knew they were shooting a movie in town! ROFL!

You guys have all day to leave comments and tell me why a space opera is taking place in Ohio and how street cops get involved with space battles.  Geez.

Directed by Alan Smithee

Breathtaking action continues!

Hey, remember this guy?

He kinda just showed up two months ago to pile yet more work onto poor suffering Durwood and Mopey Smurf. Well, he’s back and it turns out he’s the director! Who’d have known, huh?  When you’ve got mad comic storytelling skillz like T-Bats, you can have new characters drift in and out without any real introduction at all. That’s why it’s called writing. Damn, we plebes should only hope to be smart enough to be on Tom’s level.

Before we go any further, it’s time to award 1 FREE INTERNET to TheDiva, for having a Ouija board finely tuned to The Ghostly Realm Of Ghastly Cliches.

Well, let’s see if I can go two for two! *presses fingers to temples* I hereby predict that this disruption, instead of stopping the shoot dead while the unauthorized personnel are evacuated before someone gets seriously hurt, will be declared to have improved the scene immensely…

— TheDiva

Of course, the director isn’t going to call “cut.” They never do when something unexpected happens on the set, and anyone who thinks otherwise just doesn’t watch enough TV or read enough comics.

Great storytelling demands great artwork, so allow me to bring Mr. Director to the foreground of the first panel so we can see what an awesome draughtsman Tom is.

Jesus, he’s a T-Rex.

Ka-boom! Blaam!

Link to today’s strip.

Odds are, this shortcut lands them right in the middle of filming. If we’re lucky, it will be an effects shoot and they’ll all be blown up.

— TheDiva

I stand in line, TheDiva. Now let’s hope that some of those costumed Space Dudes have better aim than Imperial Stormtroopers and actually score a few hits on that bus.

Are we ever going to learn what part of a futuristic sci-fi popcorn flick is so critical it *MUST* be filmed in modern-day Cleveland?

— hitorque

Mekka Lekka Hi, Mekka Hiney Ho! Thy wish is granted, hitorque (kind of.) Long live Jambi.

Unfortunately, we seem to have missed the part where the bus crashed through a police barricade preventing traffic from going through that alley to begin with, but I guess we shouldn’t quibble about T-Bats not really knowing how something actually works before putting it into one of his little scribbles. On the up side, though, we finally have a strip that picks up where yesterday left off. So although it’s probably going to take two weeks to get that damn bus off the set, at least we’ll be able to follow the story line for a change.