SoSF in the News (Updated)

The Daily Cartoonist site reports (sort of) on the recent legal kerfuffle:

Batiuk lawyers force down Funky commentary blog

By “sort of” reporting, I mean that they couldn’t be bothered to email me to comment, but instead lifted their quotes from my post. They didn’t reach out to Batiuk for his thoughts either. I was extremely humbled, however, to have SoSF described as being “similar to Comics Curmudgeon”

UPDATE: I take back the “sort of”. Alan Gardner of the Daily Cartoonist not only emailed me for comment, but posted my reply to the site mere minutes after I hit “send”. A tip of the SoSF Stetson to the Daily Cartoonist! Alan also has contacted Batiuk, who probably will reply through his legal team.

Koo Koo Ka Chew

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As he struggles to stow Summer’s crutches in the back of their tiny Batiukmobile®, Les halfheartedly opines that maybe a basketball career isn’t in the cards for his daughter. Plucky Summer sees through his BS, and shuts him up with a non-sequitur which I’m convinced Batiuk found over at tvtropes.org. I was so excited when I saw this that I posted to the forums there, only to have the tropers dismiss me as a n00b.

Patella Like It Is

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In the examination room, Dr. Patella (yeah, TB, we get it) seems to think that a torn ACL would spell the end of her young patient’s hoop dreams . “Yeah, well, knee’s blown, you’re done. Next!” Not so fast, Dr. Kneecap! This is Summer Effing Moore you’re talking about. Really, what doctor in this situation would immediately presume that their young patient would automatically give up sports?

Instead of “Dr. Patella”, I wish Les had taken his princess to this guy (who actually sort of resembles Dr. Tom Batiuk):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7Wk9LeNSBg

We Don't Need No Steenking Forfeit!

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“Maybe this specialist, who is a knee specialist and whose waiting room we apparently are sitting in right now, will have some good news about your knee.” Why not just show a sign on the wall that says “Office of the Knee Specialist”? Nah, wordy spoken exposition is a hallmark of FW. But Summer is not listening to Les’ blather. She’s fiddling with a digital device that’s too big to be a Blackberry or iPhone and too small to be an iPad.

“Keisha just Tweeted” her? Everybody knows teens don’t Tweet, but it just sounds even more “now” than “Keisha just texted me” so let’s go with it.

And in case you were asking what could be even more implausible than a high school team forfeiting a tournament game because their star player got hurt, well, here’s your answer. “We refuse your forfeit, Westview She-Goats! We want you to kick our asses, fair and square!“