Quote :

"just make me laugh, dammit, stop trying to get me to believe in shit."

do you only watch movies that are comedies?

4/19/2007 1:59:03 PM

4/26/2007 4:06:01 PM

oh man

that about sums it up

4/26/2007 4:21:09 PM

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"they relied on obvious puns, inane observations, and fundamentalist ideology. "

It's a comic strip, do you expect it to be naked?

Really, why not debase the author because he lives on the same planet as us?

And, Marko should watch out with being the messenger, he could be jinxing himself as the transparent third for these comic writers.

4/26/2007 11:06:10 PM

MORE LIKE A TRANSPARENT TURD

4/27/2007 9:56:23 AM

Quote :

"http://joshreads.com/"

Great blog.

4/29/2007 12:20:55 AM

Me and pwrstrkdf250 are on the same page. I read the funnies about twice a week...

And I never noticed anything particularly biased/religious...swear to goodness.

Hmmm...

4/29/2007 12:48:58 AM

Funky Winkerbean had a really great joke in it today, but it was completely killed by the fact that both characters looked like they were on the verge of suicide while saying it.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/fun/funky.asp?date=20070429

You can't really read the text on that site, but it's basically the Superman origin story, and in the final inset panel, the dialog is:
"You never told me you were adopted!"
"You never asked."

[Edited on April 29, 2007 at 2:15 PM. Reason : look at that guy in the logo, too, Christ...]

4/29/2007 2:09:09 PM

holy crap

today's funky winkerbean was the most depressing one evar

[Edited on July 8, 2007 at 11:00 AM. Reason : for realz]

7/8/2007 11:00:12 AM

WTF

7/8/2007 11:06:02 AM

^^ damn, you aren't kidding. batiuk needs to let go

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/fun/funky.asp?date=20070708





[Edited on July 8, 2007 at 3:19 PM. Reason : ]

7/8/2007 3:15:39 PM

BC has improved somewhat since it's creator died.
Kinda ironic.

7/10/2007 4:24:51 PM

Quote :

"NC Pulitzer Prize Winner Killed In Car Accident Doug Marlette, who once worked for the Charlotte Observer, was 57 Raleigh, NC -- Doug Marlette, a Pulitzer-winning cartoonist and North Carolina native who once worked at The Charlotte Observer, was killed in a single-car accident Tuesday morning in Mississippi, authorities said. He was 57. Marlette was the passenger in the car, which struck a tree in wet conditions just before 10 am, said John Garrison, the coroner in Mississippi's Marshall County. "Evidently, it hydroplaned, left the highway and struck the tree," Garrison said. "There was heavy rain in the area at the time." Marlette's editorial cartoons and his comic strip, "Kudzu," are syndicated worldwide. Marlette had been in Charlotte for the funeral of his father, who was buried Friday. He was on his way to see friends in Oxford, Mississippi, at the time of the accident. Associated Press"

7/10/2007 5:38:14 PM

looks like the Rapture finally came for the Rev. Will B. Dunne.

rip

7/10/2007 8:03:41 PM

^^

I put a thread in Chit Chat about this--apparently nobody gives a damn. Maybe they just don't like me.

In any event, "Kudzu" is a great comic strip, but I like Marlette's editorial cartooning even more. He was a talented North Carolinian--he will be missed.

7/10/2007 10:43:09 PM

well this thread's trifecta is complete

7/11/2007 8:28:48 AM

somehow, i feel guilty

7/12/2007 2:46:20 AM

I saw a family circus a few days ago, i think the Sunday before last, featuring the orange haired kid, jimmy i think, waking up and saying enthusiastically "I dreamed that god was saying the pledge of allegiance" Though i find this level of stupidity revolting, i can't say that I'm not impressed that he was able to come up with stupidity of that magnitude, i mean on so many levels, the smug look on his face, the fact that his mom apparently stares at him all night because she was in the room with the door closed when he awoke, and of course the many layers of strange implications of the thing he said.

7/12/2007 3:13:29 AM

Marlette died? Ouch.

7/12/2007 12:02:50 PM

^^ that sounds like some Johnny Hart (BC) stuff right there.

By the way, Bil Keane does the sunday strips. his son, Jeff Keane does the daily panels.

back when Bil was doing all of them, they were all pretty retarded. Jeff's are actually a bit more subversive

7/12/2007 12:10:20 PM

Sucks about the Kudzu guy. Maybe cartoonists should have a grand finale of strips prepared in case they suddenly die. But I'm glad Hart didn't have any. I can't imagine what kind of sappy bullshit he would've made.

7/12/2007 1:29:22 PM

This thread made me go through the last couple weeks of Funky Winkerbean.

Good heavens, what's this guy's deal? The worst part is that he still goes for the punchline at the end, even after delivering the most depressing situation ever.

Morbid *shudder*

7/12/2007 3:07:10 PM

The only saving grace of Family Circus is this - http://dfc.furr.org/

7/12/2007 4:33:23 PM

B.C. wasnt undertones, it was right up front...if you dont like it dont read it.

But you acting like this towards someone that never made you read their comics or follow their beliefs is pretty idiotic. its ok for you to criticize someone else's beliefs by ridiculing them in a thread after they die, yet somehow he offended you by publishing something that you could have avoided reading every day if you wanted by choice?

speaking of parodies of themselves...some people want everything to be so neutral and open-minded that they end up becoming closed minded themselves. i find it funny that as a Christian I can enjoy bothsides(something like his comics and also enjoy family guy, south park etc. making Jesus jokes) but the people who arent Christians get offended by this? always seems ironic to me over who makes more of a fuss.

7/17/2007 12:11:16 PM

time and place.

the comics page isnt your personal bully pulpit for proselytizing your politicized jesus bullshit.

and i dont want the Democratic National Committee or American Atheists to run comic strips either.

7/17/2007 12:46:31 PM

well unfortunately that is the newspapers fault then. if hes writing it and the papers are printing it he has no reason to stop.

get mad at the papers for printing those kinds of comics.

7/17/2007 12:51:32 PM

[/hooksaw]

7/17/2007 8:49:32 PM

^ For fuck's sake, man--you need help.

7/18/2007 12:24:37 AM

get out of my thread

7/18/2007 12:37:20 AM

^

Quote :

"get out of my thread head"

Fixed. Isn't that what you really meant?

7/18/2007 12:40:46 AM

yeah sure, whatever you say..

don't you have some liberal "blame US first" conspiracy to go uncover?

7/18/2007 12:58:58 AM

That bitch in Funky Winkerbean finally kicked the bucket today, thank Christ.

8/26/2007 12:28:18 PM

i dunno if she's dead yet...she had "zzzzz"s next to her head

family circus ruled though...appropriate for our ADD overdiagnsed nation

8/26/2007 8:25:11 PM

I swear to god we had a 5 minute conversation at work today about how Family Circus was good and how damaging it was to all of our worldviews.

8/27/2007 12:02:16 AM

hey, i just noticed that this thread really isn't Soap Box material at all...you want it moved to Lounge, Chit Chat, Entertainment, or just locked?

8/27/2007 12:24:29 AM

it'd be interesting to see how far chit chat could take it

8/27/2007 12:26:15 AM

i dont think it would last more than a day in ChitChat. but, then again, i dont know how the hell it lasted so long heree

I'll argue this is Soap Box material though.

freedom of speech, religion and press... separation of church and comics ... the pervasive influence of religion and politics in american entertainment

one thing is certain: Funky Winkerbean does suck, to be sure





[Edited on August 27, 2007 at 12:36 AM. Reason : ]

8/27/2007 12:29:19 AM

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/fun/funky.asp?date=20071004

the end

[Edited on October 5, 2007 at 10:47 AM. Reason : +]

10/5/2007 10:46:27 AM

10/5/2007 11:58:38 AM

how depressing.

damn, i mean its a seriously tragic issue for millions of people...







but got damn why you gonna make me cry over my Cap'n Crunch

10/5/2007 12:23:24 PM

God dammit.

What am I gonna bitch about on Sunday mornings now?

10/5/2007 1:00:10 PM

don't worry

all new funky winkerbeans take place ten years later

there will be a whole new slew of drama subjects

i wonder how he's gonna reconcile his war storyline

10/5/2007 1:27:36 PM

Was 9/30's comic supposed to be ironic?

10/5/2007 1:48:10 PM