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by TFHackett | April 30, 2022 · 10:30 pm

Netbusters and Chill

For all of us who tell Tom Batiuk “write what you know!” Who doesn’t know what a pain in the ass it is, having to enter your login credentials using an onscreen “keyboard”? For once, we feel the Funkman’s frustration at being randomly required to sign in, even if his overreaction spoils their relaxing evening.

Signing in tomorrow (if he can remember his %#*@$$ password) will be the Silvio Dante to my Tony Soprano, Epicus Doomus. Epicus makes the trains run on time here at SoSF, and devotes much thankless effort to managing the guest author rotation and flagging the occasional errant spam comment. He’s done more than anyone, myself included, to keep this blog going for 12 years. We stand in line.

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Tagged as anger, binge watching, book, Funky, Holly, remote, symbol swearing, technology, TV

by billytheskink | September 29, 2021 · 10:30 pm

Slipping through the craaacks

As someone who has broken a bone after slipping on wet grass, I must admit that I briefly chuckled at today’s strip… briefly.

And that brief chuckle is the sole redeeming payoff of a story arc that began (checks phases of the moon) three weeks ago?! That’s… better than a lot of TB’s story arcs to be honest.

But what of Dinkle and the alumni band? OK, I don’t care one iota what Dinkle is doing, but the alumni band has been waiting three YEARS to perform! Oh, I’m sorry, I forgot until today that TB did this whole alumni band thing, complete with majorette performance, pretty much three years ago on the dot. I forgot about how it all started with Holly and her mom reminiscing (though then it was on a car trip from Florida). I also forgot that Holly and Melinda were told “no” on the flaming baton trick back then too. I forgot that it all ended (after taking up a whole MONTH), not with a performance, but with this. And worst/best of all, I forgot all about all of this despite being the blogger on duty when it all happened.

I was going to say “you’re welcome”, but I had to go and remember all of this today.

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Tagged as alumni band, anger, bad ideas, Bad medical news, band, batons, constant misery, crippling yet trivial injury, flashback thought bubbles, football, Holly, Holly's mom, Holly's mother whose name escapes me at the moment, homecoming, incessant rain, injuries, Jerome T. Bushka A&L Automotive Stadium, Life is a dismal horror from which you can never escape, marching band, marching bands, Melinda, rain, stupid, the raptor claw in Holly's hair, this is all a horrible mistake, thought provocation, Westview H.S., Westview High School, Westview HS Band, WHS band

by billytheskink | September 28, 2021 · 10:30 pm

Don’t sleep in the subway, Holly

The day of the big ~~alumni band~~ Holly and Melinda Budd vanity performance has arrived in today’s strip, and the nastiness continues. No, I’m not talking about the weather, though most of us are aware that monsoon rains during band performances are quite possibly the longest still-running gag in this strip (predating even Garfield and lasagna/Mondays, though far far less accessible).

Good crowd on hand, considering the weather, probably the biggest since Bull retired. Whoever replaced him must be doing a good job, crowds were pretty thin when Bull’s teams were struggling.

Sorry, scratch that last paragraph. This is Funky Winkerbean, so I’m sure the crowd is really here to see Holly…

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Tagged as alumni band, anger, band, batons, enraging facial expressions, enraging hair strands, exposition, football, fury, giant enraged baby, Holly, Holly's mom, Holly's mother whose name escapes me at the moment, homecoming, incessant rain, Jerome T. Bushka A&L Automotive Stadium, Melinda, pissiness, rain, Scapegoats, signs hung properly using tacks, the raptor claw in Holly's hair, Westview H.S., Westview High School, Westview HS Band

by billytheskink | September 27, 2021 · 10:30 pm

Budd-Kicking

Today’s strip is just unpleasant. I mean, that could be said for a lot of Funky Winkerbean strips, including yesterday’s, but rarely is this strip so overtly nasty… and over such a trivial thing too.

Melinda looks to be going hard after Rose Murdoch for Batiukverse mother of the year, though. I know, I know, “Rose is dead,” you’re thinking, “so Melinda should have the title locked up easily.” Yeah, well, Phil Holt and Lisa were allegedly dead too… and there’s still time for them to make a run at mother of the year.

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Tagged as alumni band, anger, band practice, crappy ploddinng stories that never get anywhere, enraging facial expressions, enraging hair strands, Falling leaves, fury, giant enraged baby, high school, Holly, Holly's mom, Holly's mother whose name escapes me at the moment, leaves, Life is a dismal horror from which you can never escape, marching band, marching bands, Melinda, Montoni's T shirt, one of those arcs that just never seems to end, pissiness, the raptor claw in Holly's hair, things that never end, times I wish I'd never discovered FW at all, Weary cliches, Westview High School

by billytheskink | September 26, 2021 · 10:30 pm

Thoughts and Ayers

Hope you all enjoyed yesterday’s respite from the boringly toxic (or rather, toxically boring) Melinda-Holly relationship, because we’re back for (checks calendar) WEEK 3?! of it in today’s strip. Things between these two are so bad that Holly will ignore good advice that is widely known by nearly every adult who has ever engaged in athletic behavior just to spite her nagging mother.

This strip has everything! Needless exposition! Falling leaves! Absolutely nothing likable! References that would have been topical 3 decades ago! References to death! And more word and thought bubbles than you can shake a baton at!

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Tagged as alumni band, anger, band, band practice, batons, death, enraging hair strands, exposition, Falling leaves, fury, Holly, Holly's mom, Holly's mother whose name escapes me at the moment, Jane Fonda, leaves, Melinda, misplaced nostalgia for things that weren't all that great to begin with, nostalgia, old crap, Old dying people, pissiness, references that were real topical a year ago, tags you never thought you'd use, terrible overacting, the raptor claw in Holly's hair, thought provocation, Westview HS Band, WHS band

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