Comments on: A serious moment

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 00:10:46 +0000

I found your site on technorati and read a few of your other posts. Keep up the good work. I just added your RSS feed to my Google News Reader. Looking forward to reading more from you down the road!

By: Alan

Alan — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 03:41:38 +0000

I’m not sure why “Funky” pisses me off so much, but I’ve loathed the whole Lisa deathwatch thing. It’s not that comics oughtn’t tackle serious subjects; several have done it very touchingly. But Batiuk gets tons of kudos and free publicity for his lame-ass strip by tossing traumatic subjects in his melodramatic crap-machine and pretending that the treacly result is art. Having horrible things happen to your characters does not make it deep. Where’s the insight, genuine feeling, even HUMOR for Pete’s sake (yes, humor can be found in illness if the author is a real artist and not a phony hack)?

FW used to be funny, and back then, it was a zillion times more humane and moving than the garbage it pukes out now. “Peanuts” is art. Latter-day FW is fish wrapping.

BTW… loved Uncle Lumpy’s poem on the subject.

By: cerberus

cerberus — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 20:04:07 +0000

FW: I didn’t hate it as much as I thought that I would. Having lost a parent to terminal cancer, I’m not happy with how it was handled. I can see Lisa ending the fight at some point, but to just give it up – stupid. Mothers tend to fight this to the end. And the utter, banal flippancy with which the X-ray mix-up was handled – not believable. It’s not as if people never survive recurrent cancer, though missing a critical treatment window by three months doesn’t help.

The topic itself is not unreasonable, but the inept and careless way in which it was handled was not reasonable.

By: gleeb

gleeb — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 14:57:10 +0000

10/6 – Oh, Baldo! For a strip that gets its dander up about the use of “literally” to mistake the adverb “really” for an adjective is disappointing.

By: David S. McQueen

David S. McQueen — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 13:49:15 +0000

Josh, your comments on dying are profound. You wrote, “…a few extra months to your life at the price of constant pain…” which describes the inane obsession with keeping terminally ill patients alive and in pain for as long as . . . the insurance money lasts.