Hello Snarks! SoFsDavidO here, takin’ over for a very competent TFHackett as we get up-to-date with Westview’s senior student, Owen Muffinhead in today’s strip.
*sniff* *sniff*– do you smell that? The scent of convoluted, forced shenanigans coming up? We’ve got a whole week of it folks, as it looks like Owen is going to be the Scapegoats mascot in this week’s Very Contrived Plotline!
Dammit, Batiuk, you were this close to a funny gag!“A Game of Thanes”? Drop the article “A” and you would’ve had, by FW standards anyway, an actual punchline!!! Don’t worry thought: I fixed it for you:
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Flummoxicated
September 18, 2014 at 8:31 am
Ye gods, this week has just been awful. Of course, one could say that about every week on Funky Winkerbean.
captaincab
September 18, 2014 at 4:26 pm
Ugh, these last few weeks have actually been exhausting to read. The strip is just the lack of inertia incarnate.
Thanks, snarkers…I was starting to think it was just me. “Disparage the Football Team Week 2014” takes a grim turn as Coach suggests to his players that they might die horrible, disfiguring deaths on the gridiron.
In the complete absence of jokes, the reader is left to dwell upon minutiae, which includes the “extras” in this week’s scenes:
Orbiter
September 18, 2014 at 10:14 am
There is an assistant! An assistant coach. That’s unsettling. He’s lurking there like one of those characters played by Clint Eastwood in a Spaghetti Western…
What’s really unsettling is that the mystery assistant coach is back again today…in the exact same pose! It’s weird which things Batiuk chooses to be consistent about. Maybe it’s not even a live person; after blowing their budget on those swell Riddell pro-grade helmets, the school has no money left to hire additional staff, and the team is forced to make do with a mannequin.
Rusty
September 16, 2014 at 11:19 pm
He’s not even trying to write a joke now. It’s just a declarative sentence.
Today’s strip is somewhere in between. In a sense, the team picture is “the ‘before’ picture” as it depicts the team before the season starts (though the ‘Goats have already played, and presumably lost, their first game). Does Coach summon them again at the end of the season for a (not optional!) “after” picture?
Random notes:
Son of Stuck Funky 
