Weird how Jim has to point out that “Roberta Blackburn” = “Becky’s mother”, since his fellow teachers surely know this; especially Roberta’s daughter Becky, who is standing about six feet away. Of course, this is for the benefit of those who haven’t been following this strip since Roberta’s last major appearance in Act II.
Tag: Becky
Yes We Can(vass)
Here we see the entire known Westview High School faculty, including their newest member, Art Teacher. They’re assembled outside Moore Manor to encourage their fellow Westviewvians to show support for school funding (another favorite cause of TB’s). If “Art” could read his own dialogue balloon, he’d realize that the kind of “canvass” they’re involved is the “two-s” kind. Ha! Ha! Jim, who considers himself a real teacher, can barely hide his disdain for this bald Bohemian, while Bull sees a threat to his role as mangler of words and their meanings.
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.
Dots So Not Funny
Today Batiuk picks up a daily strip from five weeks ago and pads it out to fill Sunday’s space. TB is well known for recycling his own material, but this is just so friggin’ lazy it actually makes me mad.
Practice is Everything
Here’s today’s waste of newsprint and ink.
billytheskink
March 28, 2011 at 11:15 amSo a self-admitted mediocre trumpet player that the band director claims gives the rest of the band performance anxiety was given the LEAD SOLO at that big concert in Cincinnati a few months back? The stories, they do not fit together too well…
David O
March 28, 2011 at 4:30 pm…TB sorta glosses over the fact that Owen was First Trumpet, Lead Solo not too long ago.
Owen’s lack of trumpet practice causes Becky to throw up her hand in despair. The “punchline” is that Owen only dimly perceives that his teacher is criticizing his work ethic (or lack of same). Where a real-world kid might say, “You’re right, Ms. Howard, I’m sorry”, or offer some excuse for not practicing, Owen has to process what he’s hearing.
I have created a new post category, “clueless students”, to be used for strips where Westview’s teens demonstrate such an utter lack of comprehension.
Son of Stuck Funky 
