"Young man, you are interfering with serious cat business!" -- Josette
“By the way, I drove here in my bus and knocked down your mailbox. So, Happy New Year, too!”
“Come on, Wilma, be a sport! They plan to hold a combined marshmallow roast and wienie toast later on, and they all asked to see you there!”
If you say that’s what Batiuk beats, okay, I’ll ignore the evidence to the contrary.
Which way is the wind blowing? (If Ed looks at a windvane and says “The arrow’s pointing at one of those letters” you’ll know he’s still illiterate.)
“VHS? Is that Victimizing High School? Is Les Moore now a major player on its faculty?”
Reading this strip ages you, fast.
Of course the joke was a lot younger back then.
The trouble is that they are merely Funkyverse girls. The bad ones are shrews that no manchild will touch. The good ones wait for the boys to make the first move—and Batiuk isn’t going to introduce any new characters beyond anonymous crowd members.
Big things start to happen, but somehow they never catch fire.
“Bottom” does describe how Batiuk views his relationship with his readers.
“By the way, I drove here in my bus and knocked down your mailbox. So, Happy New Year, too!”