Tag: cellphone

A Stroke of Bad Luck

Epicus Doomus
January 10, 2013 at 11:45 am
…Maybe it’s a new mix of meds, maybe it’s the constant online criticism but whatever it is [Batiuk]’s holding back on the “life sucks then you die” stuff for some reason…

Duane
January 15, 2013 at 9:58 am
It’s either cancer or someone’s dead. It’s been too long since we’ve had some tragedy around here.

Happy now? The Mom on the phone, of course, is not St. Lisa, but Darin’s adoptive mom, Fishstick Annie, with the news that Fishstick Fred has suffered an apparent stroke. FW‘s Era of Good Feeling that was 2012 belatedly, officially draws to a close. Jessica takes a turn chirping like a newlywed about the whole marriage vs. dorm dynamic.

Hide Yo' Happiness

Today Batiuk revisits one of FW‘s dominant themes. No, not clumsy sentence structure (“…go ahead again anyway”?). Nope, not bricks. Naturally, I’m talking about the need to conceal one’s happiness, lest one attract the wrath of the universe. I truly wonder if this notion exists anywhere outside the Funkiverse? Imagine being unable to express even the slightest joy, out of an abject fear of recrimination. This might work as a quirky trait for a particular character (think Joe Btfsplk from Li’l Abner), yet this phobia is clearly understood and shared by everyone in Westview. Anyway, in this case, said wrath takes the form of an ill-timed phone call from…Darin’s mom? Is Lisa checking in from the afterlife again?

Hangin' on the Telephone

As the baby-blue Batiukmobile® rolls into, or out of, Kent, Ohio, Cayla stares intently at her phone, as if willing it to ring. Seems the daughter she raised single-handedly and sent to college now can’t be bothered to answer her mother’s phone calls. Rather than explore her relationship with Keisha to understand why this might be, Cayla instead disparages Theodore “Ted” Paraskevakos and blames his invention.

Head in a Box

Since today’s first panel is a carryover from yesterday’s last panel, I thought it fitting to carry over a sampling of the your comments from yesterday on the latest posthumous Lisa sighting.

BeckoningChasm
July 29, 2012 at 12:33 am
Okay, the only way, and I mean only way this works at all is if this is Les’ final farewell to Lisa. “Thanks for coming with me one last time. Our adventure is over, and my next adventure begins now.” Don’t get me wrong, it’s still maudlin to the point of nausea, but it sort of works that way.

Epicus Doomus
July 29, 2012 at 12:53 am
Why couldn’t he pull the photo out in front of Summer and share his little moment with her? Why does his unending devotion have to be so freaking creepy and weird all the time?

billytheskink
July 29, 2012 at 1:02 am
Summer: He’s placing a picture of Lisa, my late mother, at the summit. You probably heard of her 15 years ago when she died of breast cancer.
James: Yes, I remember that. It was on that day that absolutely no one in Tanzania died, so the newspapers had to run Ohio obituaries. Anyways, littering fines double to 400 shillingi in national parks.

Charles
July 29, 2012 at 1:35 am
…Yes, a loose photograph, on top of the tallest mountain on the continent. That’s gonna stay there forever… I smile imagining it blowing off the mountain all the way down to Mogadishu.

Brazos
July 29, 2012 at 12:19 pm
Back in the day I did my fair share of non-technical high peak climbs so I’m familiar with those boxes. And do you know what every one of those boxes had? A LID!

Merry Pookster
July 29, 2012 at 10:32 am
Cheap ass doesn’t even spring for a plastic sheet protector

A real brief Google check suggests that yes, there is some cellphone service available even near the summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro, so I’m not gonna fuss over that detail. Anyway, it’s all downhill from here…