Anyone familiar with the eternal strip about life in Westview knows that creator/writer Tom Batiuk has never hesitated to go dark. From Lisa’s teenage pregnancy in the original timeline, to her death from breast cancer in the first time jump, to Funky’s battle with alcoholism, to the murder of spinoff character John Darling, the strip has flirted with turning into a soap opera that even* Mary Worth* can’t fix.
The latest turn came inSunday’s strip, which showed an unidentified driver deliberately guiding a car off a cliff. Was it Bill Bushka, who’s been battling the effects of CTE, or his wife Linda, who’s been suffering from caregiver depression? Someone else?
And will Farley from For Better Or For Worse die again while trying to save them?
Wow, I haven’t thought about this strip in a long time. It’s somehow comforting to know that Tom Batiuk is still out there, merrily slaughtering his characters.
I’m glad I don’t read it anymore.
The only parts I ever looked for and read dealt with the marching band. Harry L. Dinkle lives forever in the hearts of band fags.
[Moderating] CelticKnot, I assume that you were yourself in marching band, and that at your school, the band members used that term for themselves as a point of pride. But times have changed, not everyone will interpret the term the same way you will, and it’s based on a slur for a group that (I think) you’re not a member of, and so it would be really preferable not to use that term, or similar ones, on the board.
Accepting slurs takes the sting out of them. I have been called many insults in my life, and I don’t want to give name callers power over me by allowing myself to be wounded by their attempts to demean me. If I wanted the approval of the “cool” kids, I wouldn’t have joined the band in the first place.
Also, somebody pointed out that this incident happened at pretty much the same spot where, years ago, a drunk Wally drove himself and Becky off the cliff, resulting in Becky (who had been accepted to Juilliard) losing an arm.
