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Monological Imperatives In Dick And Jane

Hey folks, Banana Jr. 6000 here stepping in, with the second entry in my hopefully educational TBTropes series.

One of Tom Batiuk’s crazy blog posts, from a couple years ago, was about his decision not to use fourth wall breaks anymore after Act I ended. He said:

I stopped doing that because, while it’s funny, you lose the investment and involvement of the audience. They know the characters are going to be just fine, and they don’t really care about their fate. By breaking the fourth wall, I inject myself into the story to wink at the reader as we share the joke. Now, however, I began telling stories where my presence was less intrusive and less needed.
https://tombatiuk.com/komix-thoughts/match-to-flame-160/

Batiuk doesn’t seem to realize what he also lost when he made this decision. Continue reading “Monological Imperatives In Dick And Jane”

Paging Dr. Fraud

Post two of this three post series, and yes, we have slowed this year long retrospective train down to ONE STRIP AT A TIME. Deal with it. It’ll speed up again, don’t you worry. I can’t imagine I’ll have much to say about ‘Strip #1,289 of DSH and Crazy talking about comics being nice.’ We’ll be speeding through that material like an out of control Simpsons Monorail.

The Graders of the Batiuk Comics Maker’s Gossip

Sunday October 30, 2011. Batiuk has Ayers spend hours of his life drawing a bunch of nerds in a pointless single panel strip as a homage to a Rembrandt painting. Why? I don’t know. I guess he’s trying to imply that the grading of second-hand comics by a group of high schoolers and small business owners has the same amount of solemnity and grandeur of elected officials grading the quality of hand woven cloth.

The only thing I got from it is a nerdy version of ‘I Spy’. I found ‘Star [The Clone Wars] Wars’, Hellboy, Stan Marsh, Venom, Domo, and Ground Zero comics. What can you find?

*If they love comics so much, why do they all look dead inside?*

*Most of these Pilgrim looking chaps have a coy little Mona Lisa smirk going on. These guys love fabric!*

Falling Down

Greetings all my beautiful nitters! I’d love to have a really in depth post up for you guys, but we are in the heart of harvest right now. For the last couple weeks I’ve done nothing but check cows, move augers, and hook up to wagons. One night we were even chopping and bagging corn silage by the light of a harvest moon.

WallyWorld Sprint Tour

When we last saw Wally Winkerbean in this retrospective, he was staring with longing grief and acceptance into the eyes of his ex wife Becky, after having a major meltdown flashback at the Girl’s Basketball Conference Championships.

Funky lets Becky know that, as the main character, he’s taking it upon himself to facilitate Wally’s recovery.

*Sure, does Wally Jr. have any recently doodled spaceship designs he’d like?*

I waited in line for six hours to see Revenge of the Sith…and I promise you, this is NOT a quote from Yoda from that movie. At best it’s a paraphrase from lines in Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones.