Are we STILL on this? More on Ruby's retirement Here in today's strip Batton butts right in Again, he does NOT work here Who asked him to speak? Batton's questioning A reflection of TB? Is the strip's end near? Or is this resolve? Tom writing his thoughts in strip Eff-ing ponderous A warning haiku The link above has cussing That's NSFW! With Dinkle, Linda And others who fake retire Do we believe this? We probably should Not like TB gave Ruby Anything worthwhile Chester looks depressed I mean, he's just despondent In his sad jacket
Tag Archives: endless tedium
by billytheskink | November 15, 2022 · 10:30 pm
Re-haiku-ment
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Tagged as arcs where nothing happens, Atomik Komix, author avatar, Batton, Batton Thomas, boredom personified, Chester, comic books, comics, Complete Worthless Ass, curmudgeonly oldsters, depression, drafting table, endless tedium, enraging hair strands, glasses, gradient voids, gray ashen landscape, hatchet face, impending doom, jaunty scarves, Mindy, not how the world works, not how things work, not the way the world works, oddly muted squiggly lines, Old dying people, one of those arcs that just never seems to end, really dumb questions, retirement, scarf, seldom-seen characters wearing hats, squiggly lines, squiggly lines used to denote texture, stupid, the inevitable ravages of age, the ravages of age, things that never end, why?, windows
by billytheskink | May 18, 2022 · 10:30 pm
So your Haiku is stuck somewhere between Chipmunks and early Springsteen…
Hip hip hip hip hip Today's strip more of the same It just never ends Chipmunks to Springsteen Crazy's music tastes cover '58-'80 Only now Crazy? How hip did you feel during The last 40 years?! "You can become hip, Just listen to new music" - Captain Funkvious Funky's bald advice Somehow smartest thing in years In this comic strip Funky's silhouette Recognizably human Crazy's, not so much Listening to this No wonder no customers Are at Montoni's Make it stop make it Stop make it stop make it stop Make it stop oh please
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Tagged as age discrimination, Alvin and the Chipmunks, awful wordplay, bad wordplay, Bruce Springsteen, Crazy, Crazy Harry, crosshatching, curmudgeonly oldsters, endless tedium, flying music notes, Funky, Funky Winkerbean, hatchet face, hip, lame wordplay, misappropriated wordplay, Montoni's, Montoni's apron, music, music in general, musica, Now Crazy Harry, Now Funky, Old dying people, one of those arcs that just never seems to end, pizza, silhouette, silhouettes, sub-moronic wordplay, terrible wordplay, the inevitable ravages of age, things that never end, tile, unnatural hand gestures, very old gags, wordplay
by billytheskink | July 10, 2021 · 10:30 pm
Landing at Bore-mandy
Blah blah blah today’s strip… blah blah blah Phil Holt… blah blah blah comic books… blah blah blah The Subterranean… blah blah blah yackity smackity…
Meanwhile… *stupid cloud bubble panel border that TB inexplicably thinks should indicate an in-strip shift from one place to another*
Everyone’s 5th favorite Stooge, “Curly-Joe” DeRita, and Darth Vader himself are hanging out at Ye Olde Comic Shoppe. What’s that all about? Spacemanspiff85 is going to be our guide as we find out (provided we do in the next two weeks). Thoughts and prayers, man, thoughts and prayers.
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Tagged as air travel, airplanes, airports, Atomik Komix, Batom Comics, Batom's bizarre comic book fantasy world, boredom personified, bubble transition from one place to another, Chester, Chester the Chiseler, Chester's intrigued face, comic books, Comic-Con, comics, contempt for comic book nerds, Darin, embarrassing errors a comics fan shouldn't make, endless tedium, Flash Freeman, impending doom, knowing smirks, masks, Mindy, Minty Pete, Mopey Pete, old crap, Old dying people, one of those arcs that just never seems to end, Pete, Pete's Plaid Shirt, Phil Holt, Ruby, Ruby Lith, San Diego, smirk, smirks, Star Wars, stupid cloud bubble panel border, sunglasses, the comic book industry, the untimely death of Phil Holt, things that never end, Ye Olde Comics Shoppe
by billytheskink | July 5, 2021 · 10:30 pm
Understatement Of The Year
How do you make a “long story” longer? You do what TB does in today’s strip, talk about how long the story is while telling absolutely none of it. It could low-level fridge brilliance if it was in the service of a joke about how long everything in this story arc seems to be taking.
How do you make a short SOSF post shorter? Make it about today’s strip…
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Tagged as air travel, airplanes, Atomik Komix, Batom Comics, Batom's bizarre comic book fantasy world, boredom personified, chemtrails, Chester, Chester the Chiseler, comic books, comics, Darin, endless tedium, enraging hair strands, Flash Freeman, flight risks, hatch, hatchet face, mind-numbing tedium, Old dying people, Phil Holt, Ruby, Ruby Lith, smirk, smirks, stupid, tedium, the comic book industry, the untimely death of Phil Holt, uninteresting stupid anecdotes, unnatural hand gestures, unwarranted wry sarcasm, weird noses
by billytheskink | July 4, 2021 · 10:30 pm
Terminal Tedium
Oh, so we’re pretending the Atomic Komix crew actually works in today’s strip, are we? I suppose we are also pretending like it is normal for all of these people to fly to San Diego together for Comic-Con (not @home then, I guess)?
We’re pretending like Darin doesn’t have a wife and child to be concerned about? Wait… we’ve been doing that for years.
Well then we’re pretending that Flash has literally nothing better to do in his few remaining years (months? days?) than hang around a comic book company he never worked for? Oh… I guess we’ve been doing that for years too.
At least Chester appearing to care that his employees do their jobs is a new thing here.
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Tagged as air travel, airplanes, airports, arcs that go on too long, arcs where nothing happens, Atomik Komix, awards, Batom's bizarre comic book fantasy world, boredom personified, bullpen, Chester, Chester the Chiseler, comic books, Comic-Con, comics, Darin, Eisner Awards, embarrassing errors a comics fan shouldn't make, endless tedium, Flash Freeman, helmet hair, LBD, mind-numbing tedium, Mindy, Minty Pete, Mopey Pete, one of those arcs that just never seems to end, Pete, Pete's Plaid Shirt, Pineapple computers, procrastination, Ruby, Ruby Lith, silly awards, technology, tedium, the comic book industry, unearned awards, unneccessarily long arcs, very long arcs, women in comics
by billytheskink | July 1, 2021 · 10:30 pm
The Mindy Projection
Mindy may be front-and-center in today’s strip, but we all know she isn’t the real star. The real star is…
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Tagged as Atomik Komix, awards, Batom's bizarre comic book fantasy world, boredom personified, Chester, Chester the Chiseler, comic books, Comic-Con, comics, Darin, Darin's blue shirt, disembodied hand, Eisner Awards, embarrassing errors a comics fan shouldn't make, endless tedium, enraging hair strands, Flash Freeman, gradient voids, huge hands, knowing smirks, mind-numbing tedium, Mindy, Minty Pete, Mopey Pete, Old dying people, one of those arcs that just never seems to end, pencil necked geeks, Pete, Pete's Plaid Shirt, Ruby, Ruby Lith, silly awards, smirk, smirks, smirks exchanged, stupid, the comic book industry, things that never end, traveling green shirt, undeserved praise, unearned awards, unnatural hand gestures
by billytheskink | January 20, 2021 · 10:30 pm
Eye-ku
No need to induce To put folks in a coma Just use today's strip
Dramatic Funky Or is he? Lest we forget His time warp coma
Here's a third haiku It is here to fill up space Like this story arc
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Tagged as Anon-O-Character, arcs that go on too long, arcs where nothing happens, Bad medical news, boredom personified, comma eyes, crappy ploddinng stories that never get anywhere, doctor guy, doctors, Droopy, dull stories, endless tedium, four eyes, Funky, Funky Winkerbean, glib doctors, manila folder, medical professionals, mustache, Now Funky, one of those arcs that just never seems to end, things that never end, unnatural hand gestures, unneccessarily long arcs, very long arcs, weak sarcasm
by billytheskink | April 10, 2020 · 10:30 pm
Get the Buck outta here!
We can only hope today’s strip is the awful coda to this awful story arc about these awful people.
This is why you turned down Buck’s advances, Linda? Not because he was being incredibly creepy and distasteful? Not because you are still mourning your husband who committed suicide not even 6 months ago and don’t feel like jumping into any relationship? Not because you know absolutely nothing about him beyond his high school football career? Not because the only thing you two demonstratively have in common is your late husband?
I agree with Linda on one thing, though. I can’t go through this again, either.
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Tagged as Batiukmobile®, boredom personified, bricks, Buck, Buck Bedlow, Bull, character death, creepiness, creepy, CTE, death, disgust, disillusionment, endless tedium, impending doom, Life is a dismal horror from which you can never escape, Linda, Linda Bushka, Old dying people, RIP Bull, sad-sackery, silhouette, Squick, things that never end, welcoming death
by billytheskink | January 18, 2020 · 11:53 pm
Dreck on the beach
I hope against all hope that today’s strip marks the end of this chapter of Les Goes To Hollywood And Gets All Pissy- Part II, particularly for the sake of our own spacemanspiff, who has to write up the next two weeks of strips. Trying to come up with words to describe this horror is not a task I would wish on my worst enemy… or even Tom Batiuk.
On the emptiest beach in California, Masone engages in some criminal activity that doubles as the dumbest cult ritual this side of the Lisa’s Legacy Run. Not one aspect of this stupid movie project has moved forward since October despite the fact that four weeks worth of strips have been expended covering the inactivity.
Not even the prospect of s’mores improves things, which is terribly sad.
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Tagged as Cayla, Cindy, cult activity, endless tedium, Fire, first world problems, hatchet face, Hollywood, Les, Les being a giant smug douche, Les. Cayla, Lisa's Story, Los Angeles, Mason, Mason Jarr, Mason Jarre, Mason's Nose, movies, Now Cindy, sheer idiocy, smirk, smug inept bearded jerks, things that make you seriously regret ever starting to read FW in the first place, uninteresting stupid anecdotes, waiting for things not worth waiting for, weird noses
by billytheskink | October 13, 2019 · 12:26 am
Coffin Corner Kick-ed The Bucket
Fortunately, today’s strip stays in one time line. It also quotes one of Bob Dylan’s best-reviewed songs. Well, that’s two positives to the… end-ish? of this very maudlin special story arc. FYI: A donation has been made to the Boston University CTE center, presumably so readers will remember what this story arc was about last month.
So was Bull a member of the local Dylanist congregation or is that the only house of worship in Westview anymore? Both?
And with that, I am relieved… both to be done with my posting stint and, come tomorrow, by the incomparable Spacemanspiff85.
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Tagged as Becky, Bob Dylan, Buck, Buck Bedlow, Bull, Cayla, character death, characters everyone hates, Cindy, crappy ploddinng stories that never get anywhere, CTE, death, Dinkle, endless piles of leaves, endless tedium, Falling leaves, funeral, Harry Dinkle, impending doom, insufferability, Jinx, Keisha, leaves, Les, Les. Cayla, Linda, Linda Bushka, Mason, Mason Jarr, Mason Jarre, Mickey, Now Cindy, old Harry Dinkle, one of those arcs that just never seems to end, rain, RIP Bull, sheer idiocy, Summer, things that make you seriously regret ever starting to read FW in the first place, things that never end, traffic fatalities, welcoming death
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