Comics I Don’t Understand

Fluky Winkerbean

Cidu Bill on Dec 2nd 2011

Filed in Bill Bickel, CIDU, Funky Winkerbean, Tom Batiuk, comic strips, comics, humor | 17 responses so far

DNA

Cidu Bill on Nov 25th 2011

Filed in Bill Bickel, CIDU, DNA, Funky Winkerbean, Tom Batiuk, comic strips, comics | 19 responses so far

Forget Skynet: This is the day that TOM BATIUK became self-aware

Cidu Bill on Nov 7th 2011

Filed in Bill Bickel, Funky Winkerbean, Tom Batiuk, comic strips, comics | 21 responses so far

BIDU

Cidu Bill on Sep 23rd 2011

Filed in Bill Bickel, CIDU, Crankshaft, Tom Batiuk, comic strips, comics, humor | 9 responses so far

Frontlines

Cidu Bill on Aug 4th 2011

Filed in Bill Bickel, CIDU, Crankshaft, Tom Batiuk, comic strips, comics | 15 responses so far

Moon

Cidu Bill on Jul 20th 2011

And we’re back live.

Of course by “live” I mean I put this comic in the queue back in June and it would have gone live this morning whether I’d come home from Boston or not.

And it happens to be several years old.

But still.

So what answer was he looking for?

Filed in Bill Bickel, CIDU, Funky Winkerbean, Tom Batiuk, comic strips, comics, humor | 40 responses so far

Bonus LOL Collection

Cidu Bill on Jul 8th 2011

Filed in B.C., Bill Bickel, Comics That Made Us Laugh Out Loud, Cow and Boy, Funky Winkerbean, Garfield, Jim Davis, Koran, Qur'an, Sinfest, Tom Batiuk, comic strips, comics, humor, lol | 9 responses so far

TMI

Cidu Bill on May 12th 2011

How is “from a farm near Three Mile Island” a selling point?

Filed in Bill Bickel, CIDU, Funky Winkerbean, Tom Batiuk, comic strips, comics | 28 responses so far

In case anybody thinks that what Stephan Pastis does is easy…

Cidu Bill on Apr 10th 2011

…witness the tragic results of when it’s done badly. Very badly. WTF badly.

Filed in Bill Bickel, Crankshaft, Pearls Before Swine, Stephan Pastis, Tom Batiuk, When Comics Go Bad, comic strips, comics, humor | 41 responses so far

Just wondering…

Cidu Bill on Apr 2nd 2011

What sort of horse’s ass of a teacher cuts into a lunch line?

(And in case anybody’s wondering, yes, there are schools in which teachers and students eat together and stand in line together)

Filed in Bill Bickel, Funky Winkerbean, Tom Batiuk, comic strips, comics, humor | 29 responses so far

Oh, come on now…

Cidu Bill on Apr 2nd 2011

Even by Crankshaft standards, a stamp collector not knowing what a philatelist is borders on brain death.

(And is there anybody here who can’t come up with a word that not only makes for a better gag but sounds more like “philatelist” than “pessimist” does?

Filed in Bill Bickel, Crankshaft, Tom Batiuk, comic strips, comics, humor | 15 responses so far

A Bad Egg

Cidu Bill on Mar 24th 2011

Is there an actual play on words involved here, or is this simply a random, pointless, Dollyesque mispronunciation?

Filed in Bill Bickel, CIDU, Crankshaft, Tom Batiuk, comic strips, comics, humor | 18 responses so far

”Bad Timing of the Year” Award

Cidu Bill on Mar 13th 2011

Can’t really blame Batiuk for this one, of course, since he works with a long lead time. There was far less excuse for the comic (I can’t remember which strip) poking fun at the Queen Mum, which happened to have been published the day she died. I mean yeah, strips are generally written and submitted three weeks ahead, but… she was what, a hundred and three years old? You really have to know you’re pushing your luck there.

Filed in Bill Bickel, Funky Winkerbean, Queen Mum, Tom Batiuk, comics, comics strips, earthquakes | 11 responses so far

S.P. Charles: ”I do not think ‘tweet’ means what Tom Batiuk thinks it means”

Cidu Bill on Feb 14th 2011

Filed in Bill Bickel, Funky Winkerbean, Tom Batiuk, Twitter, comic strips, comics | 24 responses so far

S.P. Charles: ”Deja Funkyvu”

Cidu Bill on Feb 12th 2011

“Meanwhile, two weeks earlier…”

Filed in Bill Bickel, Funky Winkerbean, Tom Batiuk, comic strips, comics | 22 responses so far

Pencils

Cidu Bill on Dec 27th 2010

Is “four pencils and an eraser” another well-known phrase that Tom Batiuk made up? And is that actually a punchline?

I’d actually have described four regular basketball players and a much taller center as a message from Batiuk to his readers.

Filed in Bill Bickel, CIDU, Funky Winkerbean, Tom Batiuk, comic strips, comics, humor | 20 responses so far

Dunk

Cidu Bill on Nov 28th 2010

What am I missing here? She’s supposed to be the greatest female basketball player Ohio has ever seen, yet her dunking a basketball is on a par with walking on water??

Filed in Bill Bickel, CIDU, Funky Winkerbean, Tom Batiuk, basketball, comic strips, comics | 46 responses so far

The 1964 NFL Season Called…

Cidu Bill on Nov 27th 2010

Filed in Bill Bickel, Crankshaft, Hey Geezers! Comics!, Johnny Unitas, Tom Batiuk, comic strips, comics | 41 responses so far

Check, please!

Cidu Bill on Nov 22nd 2010

One cashier oversees six to eight self-checkout lines. Either Crankshaft is too blind to see this, or the cashier is too stupid to mention it, or Batiuk has never actually been in a supermarket with a self-checkout section, or some combination of the above. No excuse for this.

Filed in Bill Bickel, Crankshaft, Tom Batiuk, comic strips, comics | 61 responses so far

They tried to tell us we’re too young…

Cidu Bill on Oct 21st 2010

The reporter is too young to know what “nonfiction memoir” means? She’s too young to have been following the Funky Winkerbean strip and therefore doesn’t know who Lisa is? I’m stumped.

Filed in Bill Bickel, CIDU, Funky Winkerbean, Tom Batiuk, comic strips, comics, humor | 39 responses so far

Pop

Cidu Bill on Sep 2nd 2010

Okay, let me get this straight… Batiuk has Crankshaft pull screwed-up lyrics out of his butt, and then the punchline is Crankshaft making a comment about them??

Filed in Bill Bickel, CIDU, Crankshaft, Tom Batiuk, comic strips, comics | 27 responses so far

Senior

Cidu Bill on Aug 22nd 2010

He should really take it up with Batiuk, who draws him to look like he’s at least 70 years old. And not a spry 70-year-old either.
Anyway, a discount’s a discount, isn’t it? And we’ve seen how tight Funky is with a buck (also see here).

Filed in Bill Bickel, Funky Winkerbean, Tom Batiuk, comic strips, comics, humor, senior citizen discount | 20 responses so far

Why New York is Different From the Rest of the World

Cidu Bill on Aug 9th 2010

In Ohio this t-shirt would imply “anger management issues”?? In New York, assuming the pizza place was reasonably popular, a t-shirt with this sort of attitude would sell like, well, New York pizza.

That being said, of course… a piece of pizza? I’ve never heard that before in my life. Once again, Batiuk is apparently making up a phrase for the sake of basing a gag around it. Dude, that’s not how puns work.

Filed in Bill Bickel, Funky Winkerbean, New York City, Tom Batiuk, comic strips, comics, humor, pizza | 79 responses so far

I finally figured it out:

Cidu Bill on Jul 20th 2010

Crankshaft is actually Billy from Family Circus, 70 years later.

Filed in Bill Bickel, Crankshaft, Family Circus, Tom Batiuk, comic strips, comics, humor | 10 responses so far

Mitch: ”Where does CIDU start and ‘that’s just wrong’ end?”

Cidu Bill on May 31st 2010

Mitch: With this one I have a hard time delineating where “I’d like to correct that!” leaves off and “But I still don’t understand why he’d say that” takes over.1) The standard plural of ‘bus’ is ‘buses’. This ‘busses’ is either plain wrong or at least a disfavored alternative.

2) If this is supposed to be a song/rhyme, does he say ‘wuss’ in a way that plausibly rhymes with ‘bus’? For me it’s a pretty bad off-rhyme.

3) And as CIDU, why (besides trying for a rhyme) is he calling anyone a ‘wuss’ for destroying his mailbox? They might be vandals or hooligans or (if he’s blaming the driver) incompetents — but why ‘wusses’?

Filed in Bill Bickel, Crankshaft, Tom Batiuk, comic strips, comics, humor | 27 responses so far