Good to see that the Westview Band is taking action to raise funds in these difficult times. Maddie’s offhanded quip draws a blank stare from her creepy neighbor, as well as thousands of comics readers.
Quiz-ling
By my reckoning, today’s Cory Winkerbean sighting is the first since May of 2010. The strip’s most underexposed and therefore most interesting character comes off the bench to play hatchet-faced straight man to Maddie the Hat, who appears to be wearing Mr. Moore’s yellow shirt.
Funky Minus Les
Millage Idiot
It’s not a punchline-worthy pun if I have to Google the meaning. Oh well, at least Les is nowhere in sight. It’s also heartening to see that not only has the senior class gone to the trouble of repainting “Senior Rock” (remember how lazy the Class of 2011 was?)…they’ve actually picked it up and moved it about twenty yards, to a spot behind the school sign. Now that’s Senior Spirit!
The Way We Were
Sigh. I don’t want to pick on TB’s 9/11 effort…but I must.
Remember in Act II when the Westview High School Band performed at Carnegie Hall? Me neither. But let’s just say it happened. So excited are Wally and Becky that their faces have become frozen masks of maniacal glee! Of course, that was before shit got real. Flash-forward to — today? Or sometime in the past ten years. Sgt. Wally (we assume) in his dress uniform, is going to or returning from Iraquistan, by way of New York City…looking glumly at the “new normal” skyline, his smirk turned upside-down.
Meanwhile, over at Crankshaft:
More careless time-jerking from Batiuk. Late last month TB posted on his “blogs“:
“I jumped everyone in the Funkyverse ahead in time in 2007 and I didn’t do the same with the cast of Crankshaft [emphasis mine].”
But in today’s CS, Cranky sits in front of the TV, watching a news program entitled “9•11: TEN YEARS LATER”. The reporter is none other than Cindy Summers, reporting from Ground Zero; apparently following the attack, since she’s surrounded by the ruins and ashes of the Twin Towers. Cindy must work for the only U.S. news outlet using pink and yellow in their 9/11 onscreen graphics instead of red, white and blue.
