Bull – Page 75 – Son of Stuck Funky

G-O-A-T-S!

This game is historic for another reason: judging from the lighting/coloring of today’s strip, this is the first high school football game played on the ocean floor. This is the most action-packed strip in awhile! Let’s break it down:

Panel one features not one but two disembodied heads!
That’s some gang-tackle in panel two: the Big Walnut Tech kid’s head is at a very uncomfortable-looking angle. I’ll give props where due, though: it’s pretty well-drawn, even if a piling on like that is probably illegal in high school football. Number 32 still looks shaken up in the next panel as time runs out.
Wow. Bull looks…he looks happy. Don’t know why he’s sticking his thumb in his chest…it wasn’t his ass out there on the field. But hey, good for Bull. Good for the Consensus-Building Scapegoats. Something positive happened in this comic strip today. Mark the date well, snarkers. Mark it well.

Oh my…Darling?!?

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What the…

Via flashback, Batiuk resurrects the other character whom he famously killed off. I guess the Westview football coaches really do have to talk to the media. And back when “Bull” Bushka was still playing (I’m guessing that’s him in panel 3, holding his helmet and weeping), their coach was…I don’t know, some guy. Young Ed Crankshaft, perhaps? Well, he does share Ed’s doorknob-esque nose, as well as his “is-he-being-sarcastic-or-is-he-really-that-clueless” worldview.

No “W” in Westview

Linda: “…come to think of it…Bull’s relationship with me is like a dysfunctional marriage…”

Extra Saturday treat:
One of TB’s classic hatchet-faced female profiles!

Note from TFH: I’m handing over the helm of the good ship SoSF for a week to trusted first mate DavidO…I’m not going anywhere, my brain just needs a rest! I’ll be joinin’ you lubbers below decks as we sail the seas of snark!

Son of Stuck Funky Caption Contest!

Finish Funky’s thought for him and win a genuine Stay Funky! mug, a gift you’ll be proud to display at your work or home. This mug makes a great byline into discussions about the difficult choices some have to make when putting parents into nursing homes, the ravages of disease and loss on families, unwanted pregnancies and more.

The funniest caption wins, to be determined at midnight this Sunday!

But I haven’t come yet! rimshot

The parade of men that are far more capable of pleasing Holly than Funky ever dreamed of continue to stream through the Winkerbean Household. The bar isn’t exactly set high; someone that doesn’t consider talking about the difficulties of urinating with a shrunken urethra as foreplay is a good start. By the looks of things in panel 2, Holly is chomping at the bit to get Bull to look at the “computer” back in the bedroom. As for the punchline in panel three, I think people just want to get the hell away from Funky’s days-old shirt and pee-stained sweatpants.