Tag: John Darling

Hold On, Darling

Yay, another flashback to another character having a baby!

Can I just say, my viewpoint is coming from someone who doesn’t have kids. The closest I’ve been to an actual delivery was watching a video in 8th grade health class on child birth. I’m not trying to discount the wonder of having a baby and the whole bringing a new life into the world and so on.

My only question is, what is Tombat actually bringing to the table here that’s new, or even amusing? Other directed? What does that even mean?

Today’s strip lack of sepia tone actually is the one thing the strip has going for it. It’s much better than the weird photo-album border of flashbacks past. I just wonder how this new baby is going to effect things like age continuity. Will Skyler catch up with little “perpetually four” Robbie?

Mr. Machina is my father. Call me Deus.

There’s several tropes to check off here; a known fact being repeated endlessly, (Yes, we’ve known there was a struggle in the van for about three weeks now) a wall of text expanding at an alarming rate and some very, very plodding story telling.
Today’s strip is much more enjoyable if read in Droopy’s voice.

Summer Regretting They Even Came Home

DavidO here again, back and snarking after some serious WordPress glitches. On to the snark!

Mentioning the fact that John Darling is Jessica’s murdered TV host father over and over was funny at first. Then it got REAL old. But now it’s funny again!

Though it may take the next six days for “him” to get out of the car and ring the doorbell, “He” is here! I can only assume from the excitement and clunky exposition that “he” referenced in today’s strip is Kevin Bacon.

There's Moore Where That Came From

Tom Batiuk: If you could see my drawing board now. I’ve got a project that’s going to come up starting the end of the year and it’s really cool…Cory is in Afghanistan and [Holly’s] looking to complete his comic book collection…So she’s going to complete his collection of Starbuck Jones comics…I have seven covers that I’ve had guys create for me and it’s such a kick.

Tom Batiuk Talks ‘Funky Winkerbean’, comicbookresources.com, Mar 19, 2013

Too bad Batiuk didn’t bring in a pro to create a cover for Les’ first book: it looks more like the cover of a book report by a fourth-grader.

Sidetracked, Derailed, Jinxed, Puzzled

August 8, 2011 strip

“…derailed by some other projects“? You mean you didn’t see her Dinkle doc, “Harry Dinkle: A Life…and Deaf”? Or her film about service dogs, “Some Buddy to Watch Over Me”? The only documentary “project” we’ve seen Jessica working on was videotaping Les and Cayla’s wedding (and she fucked that up). In any case, you’d think that telling the story of the late father, whose name she invokes at every opportunity, would take precedence over other “projects”.