Why, oh why should Nate be incredulous to learn that two über-geeks like Cody and Owen are in the Technology Club? Does he reckon that they (or at least Owen) are just too stupid? What extracurricular activities would Nate expect them to sign up for (unless Westview High has a comic book club)?
Tag: chullo
Damn Your Hide
Well! Who’s sounding like a “pedantic schoolmarm from a bitter hollow” today? I’m sure all you “hidebound literalists” in the audience, as well as all you beady-eyed nitpickers, feel duly chastised for dismissing Serious Storytelling Art as mere “comic strips”!
Epicus Doomus
November 8, 2012 at 11:03 am
…Is all of this some sort of attempt to justify the continued existence of comic strips or something?
Nope, just more of Tom Batiuk railing against us Philistines…
"Comics", Weakly
Leave it to a Tom Batiuk character to take a topic like “comics” and present it as a history lesson, complete with arched eyebrows and finger-pointing pontification. Way to connect with a teenager who despises school. The part of John in panel 2 is being played by Marvin Kaplan.
Riddle Me This, Batiuk
Cannot thank davidorth enough for climbing into the SoSF wheelhouse as Hurricane Sandy did her worst. Yours truly and family came through ok, considering! Thanks, everyone, for your thoughts and well-wishes!
Look on the bright side, kids: Batiuk spared us most of the Battle of the Bands, and Les is still off the radar. Kut to the Komix Korner, where the chullo’d one and John, lover o’ boys, are discussing the things that really matter, and by that I mean comic books! Owen earnestly raises a question about “comic” books that readers of this blog regularly ask about a certain “comic” strip. Reckon the komix geek community (and I say that with affection) will be all abuzz that Owen is prominently proffering a copy of DMZ, a “Comic” Book That Exists.
"..and why do they call Funky Winkerbean a comic if readers never laugh?"
*bashes head into a wall*
First off, hats off to an eagle eyed reader that pointed out that yesterday’s anonymous band member was actually Cody! I could not tell. Faces and ages aren’t drawn with enough consistency for me to identify all of Westview’s various Marfan’s afflicted denizens.
Thanks to graduating off 90% of the high school characters, we’re now left with these two unlikable nerdlings who just happen to be into– drumroll please… comics!
Riddle me this: How did John from Komix Korner have trouble coming up with his rent when the only thing to spend money on in Westview is pizza or comic books!?
Son of Stuck Funky 