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Pokemon’s Ten Most Disturbing Pokedex Entries
Pokemon’s Ten Most Disturbing Pokedex Entries
Pokemon’s Ten Most Disturbing Pokedex Entries
Last week, Pokemon Black and White were finally released in America as the two latest installments of the long-running video game franchise. It's something I've been looking forward to since it was announced, to the point where I've been reading through the Pokedex -- the official in-game database that describes all 649 Pokemon -- and in doing so, I've discovered something: For a game made for chi
FunkyWatch: February’s 10 Most Depressing ‘Funky Winkerbean’ Strips
FunkyWatch: February’s 10 Most Depressing ‘Funky Winkerbean’ Strips
FunkyWatch: February’s 10 Most Depressing ‘Funky Winkerbean’ Strips
Thanks to Josh Fruhlinger at the Comics Curmudgeon, I started reading Tom Batiuk's long-running newspaper comic strip, Funky Winkerbean. For those of you who aren't familiar with it, what started as a strip full of wacky high-school hijinx has slowly transitioned into being an inescapable quagmire of despair...
FunkyWatch: January’s 10 Most Depressing ‘Funky Winkerbean’ Strips
FunkyWatch: January’s 10 Most Depressing ‘Funky Winkerbean’ Strips
FunkyWatch: January’s 10 Most Depressing ‘Funky Winkerbean’ Strips
While they're often overlooked by super-hero fans, newspaper comic strips are a vital part of the world of sequential art that reaches millions of readers and is no less worthy of examination or criticism than their long-form counterparts. Unless, of course, we're talking about Tom Batiuk's Funky Winkerbean, which started out 30 years ago as a high school comedy and evolved into a form that delive
FunkyWatch: October’s Most Depressing ‘Funky Winkerbean’ Strips
FunkyWatch: October’s Most Depressing ‘Funky Winkerbean’ Strips
FunkyWatch: October’s Most Depressing ‘Funky Winkerbean’ Strips
Over the past few months, I've become increasingly obsessed with Tom Batiuk's Funky Winkerbean, thanks largely to the tireless coverage of Josh Fruhlinger over at The Comics Curmudgeon. What started in the '70s as a lighthearted high school comedy has slowly evolved -- through a series of time-jumps, spin-offs and character deaths -- into an unrelenting parade of suffering and despair, and I'll c
FunkyWatch: September’s Most Depressing ‘Funky Winkerbean’ Strips
FunkyWatch: September’s Most Depressing ‘Funky Winkerbean’ Strips
FunkyWatch: September’s Most Depressing ‘Funky Winkerbean’ Strips
Over the past few months, I've become increasingly obsessed with Tom Batiuk's "Funky Winkerbean," thanks largely to the tireless coverage of Josh Fruhlinger over at The Comics Curmudgeon. What started in the '70s as a lighthearted high school comedy has slowly evolved -- through a series of time-jumps, spin-offs and character deaths -- into an unrelenting parade of suffering and despair