“Are you sure this comic book is worth anything, John?
“Here’s what it listed for in the price guide in fair condition.”
“Really!? ‘Fair’ condition, huh? Well I wonder what condition it would be in if it were properly bagged and boarded, or even slabbed? It’d probably be worth a lot more, am I right? Sigh…I’ll take your comic for the ‘Save the Sports Raffle’…but I think I’ll just refer to it as a coloring book.”
Step right up and be clobbered by the Wall of Text that is today’s strip. Owen listens in rapt attention as John preaches from the Gospel of St. Wigransky.
Owen: “He was pretty sharp for a fourteen-year-old.”
John: “Yeah, just the age I like ’em… I mean, yeah, and he read comic books! Hey, speaking of comic books, I keep some, uh, special ones in the back. Wanna see?”
Day five of the “Video Games are Harmless” screed. “Golly, Mr. Howard, weren’t there nobody to stick up for comic books to that mean ol’ Doctor Wertham?”
I’m trying to figure out if DSH is just pulling a random comic out of that bin, or is that supposed to be a picture of this Wigransky kid (that John just happens to have laying around)? It doesn’t look like the only picture of him that I was able to Google.
Lesser Whark
November 3, 2011 at 12:53 am
This strip almost makes me want to punch John more than I want to punch Les, and that’s saying something.
It must be that oh-so-serious look he’s had on his face all week; I wanna punch him too:
John drones on about those who would “attack the weakest and most vulnerable members of society”. Meanwhile weak and vulnerable Owen is surprised to discover that John’s hand has left the game controller and is now moving up his thigh…
(Today’s post title is a play on the title of the book by “a Dr. Frederic Wertham”)
“Status offenders“? Let’s look it up. The definition of “status offender” is ”a young offender (as a runaway or a truant) who is under the jurisdiction of a court for repeated offenses that are not crimes”. But John’s definition is someone committing offenses “against the status quo.” Let’s look up status quo: Latin for ” the existing state of affairs”. How does playing video games offend the existing state of affairs? Where is the joke here? Great God, where is the joke?
Here’s some Status Quo, guaranteed not to offend:
Oh, and it’s that time of the month! FunkyWatch: October’s Most Depressing ‘Funky Winkerbean’ and ‘Crankshaft’ Strips over at Comics Alliance!
Son of Stuck Funky 