Comic strip to feature homosexual ‘prom’ date

Life Site News ^ | 4/24/2012 | Ben Johnson

[IbJensen]

I grew up with Archie comic books in the 40's and couldn't wait to spend my allowance on the latest issues. I am greatly saddened that this is what it has come to and the only Archie comic books my grandchildren will ever see will be vintage ones.

what is meant by the comment that young people's attitudes towards gays aren't "perfect"? I suppose the only acceptable thing would be for all teens to love and embrace the gay lifestyle for them to be satisfied with the young people's attitudes? Ain't gonna happen, so forget it. No matter how it is pushed in our faces, it will never be a societal "norm".

The only reason these people think the youth is more "open and accepting" is because its been crammed down there throats and if you don't validate and EMBRACE this perverted lifestyle, you are nothing but a low life "homophobe". Homosexuality will eventually be the downfall of this once great nation. It is all predicted in the Bible. This country is in a very sad, bad place in history.

[yldstrk]

depraved

[humblegunner]

I grew up with Archie comic books in the 40's and couldn't wait to spend my allowance on the latest issues.

[Behind Liberal Lines]

Funky Winkerbean turned into a soap opera strip about ten years ago and now it looks like Archie is following suit. In each case it’s about creatively bankrupt ‘creators’ trying to generate cheap drama and headlines because thats easier than making people laugh.

[Tanniker Smith]

Never heard of it. 400 newspapers and it isn’t in NYC? Odd.

[elcid1970]

The Gaystapo is powerful. Sickening beyond any doubt.

How ironic, I remember outrage over MAD Magazine’s parody of Riverdale, “Starchie Standrews” where the 1950’s hero indulged in smoking, hinted at drinking, bullied freshmen & sold them school `passes’, then bumped off his rival Wedgie Van Smelt. His girlfriends Salonica & Biddy shot heroin and had zit ridden faces. Of course, Starchie paid for his crimes with life imprisonment in reform school.

Even that’s mild compared to today’s forced gay acceptance.

[Venturer]

Next we will see Batman having sex with Robin.

And Wonder Woman dining at the Y.

[VanDeKoik]

Calvin and Hobbes
Peanuts
Bloom County
Dilbert
Far Side

No one make humorous and quality strips like this anymore.

All the rest are complete garbage, with far too many of them trying to sneak in crap like “gay prom dating”.

[jboot]

My little hometown paper carries it. For them to run it Creators Syndicate must be paying papers to take it. ;-)

I haven't read theat strip in a decade at least. Then again, I don't read the paper anymore, either. We only get it so my mom can read the obituaries.

[AppyPappy]

“Dealing with intolerance is something I’ve dealt with many times before”

It doesn’t sound like that he is tolerant of intolerance

[Bratch]

[Buckeye McFrog]

this would be a significant news item if anybody out there still read the funny pages in dead-tree newspapers...

[massmike]

Amazing the lengths a comic strip with with the word “Funky” in the title will go to to seem current......

[Mich Patriot]

The Far Side is my favorite...

[dangus]

Does anyone read Funky Winkerbean? I never understood the strips that give you three seconds of dramatic content per day (like Apartment 3-G, FW, etc.)

[Cowgirl of Justice]

Speaking of Wonder Woman, Superman was flying all around, looking for something to do. Using his superpower vision, he could see Wonder Woman sunning herself nude by her swimming pool. He thought, “I can make myself invisible, pay her a visit and be gone in a flash and she won’t know what hit her.”

So he did it. Wonder Woman’s eyes flew open and said, “My word! What was that??!!”

The Invisible Man said, “I don’t know, but my hiney sure hurts!”

[Mich Patriot]

[Dr. Sivana]

Never heard of it. 400 newspapers and it isn’t in NYC? Odd.

NYC is a poor market for comic strips. First, the New York Times doesn't even HAVE a comics section. Second, tabloids in general and the Post and Daily News tend to have a leaner comics section (two half pages or so). A notable exception is the Boston Herald. Third, the comic strips that are run in a paper often have to do with the relatonship of the syndicate that distributes the comic strip with the paper. For instance, Gasoline Alley was distributed (and might still be) be Chicago Tribune. Peanuts is United Features. Beetle Bailey is King Features. It is no coincidence that the same papers that carry Beetle Bailey also carry Hi & Lois (another King features strip). The same papers that carry Funky Winkerbeam are more likely to carry Batuik's other comic strip, Crankshaft.

Finally, Funky Winkerbeam is even more suburban/small town than Archie, so it doesn't necessarily appeal to the same demographic.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

That’s so gay.

[Dr. Sivana]

Does anyone read Funky Winkerbean? I never understood the strips that give you three seconds of dramatic content per day (like Apartment 3-G, FW, etc.)

Some are better than others. Mary Worth is extremely painful. One of the artists, Joe Giella, used to be a backbencher on the Superman comic books (he never really improved his technique).

On the other hand, Dick Tracy and Gasoline Alley were pretty good when in the hands of Chester Gould and Dick Moores, respectively.

This format of strip began when comic strips were MUCH larger, and sometimes had as many as six full panels. Some of today's gag strips started out as serials. Blondie and Nancy (as Fritzie Ritz) are two notable examples.