Talk:Tom Batiuk

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Today, Feb 7, 2006, may be the next to the last time I read this comic strip. I will read tomorrow "to see where it's going". but it looks like today's "strip" is a slur to our military effort in Afghanistan. Freedom is free. but I will not accept Tom Batiuk pullinh a "Kahn" game on us readers.

Tom Batiuk would NEVER do that. If anything, he is pro-military to the point of being ludicrous. Luis Dantas 07:29, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

Hal Kirven Columbus, GA

[edit] Giving it up.

August 3rd, 20548882:

Batiuk appears to me to be a sadistic man who only wants attention. I have totally given up reading his works, which have become morbid, preachy pseudo-social commentaries which no longer torture the characters for the good of the comic or the reader, but solely to worsen the lives of the characters! The recent strips, with the food poisoning proves this to me.

Great, fantastic. I took out the HUGE spoiler that was in there (it certainly had no warning).

[edit] "combined with generally rosy outcomes"

I should disclose I am a regular on Comics Curmudgeon, a community that is not fond of Funky Winkerbean or Batiuk. Despite that, I am actually a big fan of Funky still.

But frankly, it's not the same strip it was when I was a kid. Batiuk himself has definitely changed from dramas with "generally rosy outcomes." It's therefore outdated to say that. Comics creators can change over time, and that means their entries have to change, too.

The reason I didn't just edit it is, it's tricky. He always covered controversial topics, especially for a HS comic strip, but he used to do so in a much more light-hearted way. What's changed is that the overall mood, not just Lisa's cancer thread, has changed. --MarionADelgado 20:35, 14 July 2007 (UTC)