Tag: Buddy

Air Bud

http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComick.mpl?date=20110118&name=Funky_Winkerbean

I’m going to leave aside the fact that the flight attendant is a dead ringer for Summer. Instead, let’s focus on her lack of knowledge regarding her airline’s policy regarding traveling with dogs. “I don’t think…?” “Well, I guess…?” Is this her first day on the job?

Over at the Comics Casserole, Alladinsane posted a link to some rules and regs regariding service dogs, which Summer the Stewardess clearly has not read…

Bonus!
Tom Batiuk was interviewed by petliferadio.com about the service dog thingy. You can download the podcast. There are commercials; the interview starts around 4 min., 30 sec.in, and yes, I listened to the whole thing. TB talks with the very chipper hostess about how he researched the Buddy arc (via phone and email); the rest of it is the standard biographical info that is available elsewhere. He brings up the “quarter-inch from reality” thing and talks about “Writing!”, and about how comics should “reflect what’s going on”. Hearing him talk, he sounds like a pretty likable guy, and not a Les-Moore-ish ass.

Sunday, Buddy Sunday

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Greetings, snarkers! I am posting this from beautiful Lake Placid, where I’ve been enjoying a mini-winter vacation with my family since Thursday. First order of business upon arrival was to grab the computer in the lobby and post Sunday’s strip. For today, I’ll leave the snarking to you all, and catch up with ya during the week.

Man’s Best Buddy

So what’s Robbie’s story? Does he have any issues, or is Batiuk just incapable of drawing appealing children? For now, Robbie exists as a prop. He hasn’t been given any lines…can he speak? How old is he? Who’s his daddy? Was he conceived in the back of a van? Are his tiny arms a clue to some type of irregularity? Let’s have some backstory here! Robbie’s issues aside, I must admit that it’s a nice change to see Pvt. Winkerbean finally “at ease”.