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Epicus Doomus
December 28, 2012 at 8:37 pm
…Rule #2: DO NOT try to make sense of the timeline…it is a fool’s errand.

Not so much trying to make sense as just pointing out how wack this “25th soberversary” is. Funky’s battle with the bottle was depicted in Act II sometime during 2006 (and was published in book form in summer of 2007). If you figure in the 10-year time jump, and the five years and two months that have elapsed since then…oh, screw it. Why do we care if the author doesn’t? Careless!

Let’s ponder instead why John and Crazy Harry are entering Montoni’s through the back door. Is the “Comic Book Convention” we saw them at yesterday taking place in Montoni’s back room? Holly and Funky toast his sobriety with a couple glasses of “City of Westview” because Funky couldn’t find anything cheaper. Crazy Harry seizes the opportunity to appear magnanimous, by offering to pick up the tab on just about the only thing he can afford on what John’s paying him.

I Flash Gordon

Looks like Crazy Harry’s “dream job” is permanent after all, as he and Tête Moufette Morte John man a booth at Westview Comicon. Their customer is an Imperial Stormtrooper (and apparently the only one attending this event in costume).

Epicus Doomus
December 23, 2012 at 12:10 am
I remember the “deadpan stare” at the reader after the punchline, something that might make Act III a lot funnier than it is now. There’s certainly nothing to lose by trying it.

If TB is reverting to the “gag-a-day” format, that “deadpan stare” would be most preferable to John’s knowing, sidelong smirk in panel 3. The guy is just made of creepy.

Happy New Year!

So by the time I got a look at today’s strip, there were already seven comments, any and all of which were better than anything I could say about this weird, stupid, unfunny “comic”. Yup, Funky’s got nothing better to do than vex and annoy honest working people, much like Les was seen doing during his book tour.

Wishing the readers a happy, healthy and prosperous 2013!

Post-Grammatic Stress Disorder

In the hands of any other writer, Les’ remark to Cayla would be taken as sarcasm. Your high school English teacher (and high school was how many years ago?) wrote a single comment (and not a very scathing one at that) on your paper, and you’ve been scarred by that? Well, clearly she has been: to this day, Cayla can’t sit down and compose an email to her daughter without being seized by flashbacks. “Careless”? This from the most careless “writer” working in comics today. Can you imagine the withering critiques that Les must give to his students?