Well, looks as if we've been spared a whole week of St. Lisa counseling Les from beyond the grave. So: is today the actual wedding day, or are they still planning this? Reason I'm asking is because it looks like the mobile barbecue grill is setting up in the driveway, along with a table and canopy. Today's "joke" is number umpteen-thousand-sixty-seven in Les' series of asshat non sequiturs. Of course the chairs aren't for the bride and groom, jerkoff.
Since unveiling her wedding-at-home plans to Les, Cayla seems to be getting more stressed, and less appreciative of Les' carefree attitude (although that pissed-off look she's giving him in panel 2 is…kinda sexy). If this culminates in her actually getting fed up and not going through with the wedding? Well, I can't take back all the things I've said about Funky Winkerbean, but I will donate fifty bucks to lisaslegacyfund.org.
Epic smug look on Les in the second panel. He has achieved higher consciousness.
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Les' second panel face is ultrapunchable.
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No more Lisa (for now)…that's a real relief. I thought that might go on all week. Once again the World's Most Annoying Man is doing what he does best. The dick with ears has time o' plenty for cancer fun runs and Lisa tapes but when Cayla's involved it's obnoxious jokes and barely-feigned interest. As far as panel two is concerned, yeah, that's some really aggressive douche-iness right there. Such a piece of shit.
And is it just me or is it really, really hard to muster up much sympathy for Cayla? At this point she's no more than an obvious glutton for punishment. We don't know a whole lot about Cayla, either, other than that she enjoys softball, hotels and lemonade and doesn't mind being cuckolded by a man's dead wife. And she's all insecure about her hair, too. None of which would explain her continued attraction to that dick Les. Thus all we can conclude is that she's an idiot and it's tough to feel too sorry for anyone that dumb. She's like the character in the slasher flick who insists on proving that there's nothing in the attic.
It'd be interesting if Cayla finally saw the light and called this sham of a wedding off. But, unfortunately, the key word there is "interesting" which rules it out immediately. FW doesn't do "interesting".
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Who is that almost-caucasian in the second panel, talking to the douche?
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I have a different point of view here. Goatee Boy's quip is kind of funny. It's like he's trying to break the tension with a silly joke. It's Cayla being the RoboBitch at this point. Why not just chuckle and laugh it off for once?
Know what this is? It's another instance of Bat Hack appearing to throw in a potentially interesting plot twist – but it goes nowhere. This is not the first time, recently, that Cayla appears to be genuinely fed up with Goatee Boy's shit. Seen more dirty looks from her directed at him in the past couple weeks than we've seen since we've seen her up to that point. All she has to do is get a whiff of him mooning over those Dead Lisa tapes, and she could be history. And if Batcrap had Hair One on his backside, that's what he'd do.
Won't happen. She'll be all grinny and dopey on her wedding day like none of this ever happened.
Amnesia much, Tommeh?
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Oh, but having him smirk like that when she's obviously pissed off is incredibly stupid and obnoxious.
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Cayla: Les, what happened to all that Hollywood "option" money they advanced to you?
Les: oh, I donated it to Lisa Legacy
Cayla: I'm outta here…..
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First of all, to our moderator: Your $50 will remain safely in your pocket. TB wants us to know how forward thinking he is in race relations and nothing will prevent him from beating us over the head with this thought.
Secondly, I speak from personal experience that in the days leading up to my wedding 41 years ago, my bride became an unrecognizable monster who flew into fits of rage at the least little suggestion that something about her wedding was worthy of laughter. So today I'll cut both Not Dead Lisa & Les some slack. And no, TB, I don't think the strip is funny – anymore.
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Cayla's lines in the second panel could be- should be- addressed directly to BatBoy his ownself every single day…
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It takes a brave person indeed to admit in public to finding anybody or anything in Funky Winkerbean even remotely sexy. It may be the exception that proves Rule 34.
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Is the joke that Les doesn't really want to marry this woman, but he's too big a pussy to tell her and thus is trying to psych her into leaving him? It didn't work for George Costanza, so it'll probably backfire on Les, too. Therefore, time to break out the special envelopes!
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Well, Sunday's strip was allegedly based on an encounter he had at one of the real-life Lisa's Legacy walks. Chances are that today's panel 2 was based on something someone actually said to TB at the last comics convention that he attended.
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Someone should make a Tumblr that collects the most punchable smirks of Funky Winkerbean. There must be some need for an ultra-annoying website. Maybe to help people with low blood pressure. That panel 2 smirk has to be the most annoying smirk ever drawn. Do you think Batom Inc. doodles smirks on scrap paper, grocery lists, or paper napkins? "Got to keep in practice!"
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Batiuk is trying to make this wedding as uncomfortable and undesirable as possible, right? This relationship is throwing up more red flags than a Chinese political rally; one would have to be completely oblivious to not be doing it on purpose.
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The strip sucks, but today's snark is A-plus.
I agree with TFH. Yesterday we were shown Lisa so the rest of the week we can say,"Whew! Not Lisa's ghost. The wedding will look great by comparison."
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I'm still a little curious about what Lisa's tape might have said. "Getting married is a very important step for any man!" I mean, Les shouldn't need any instructive or inspirational tapes, he's an adult. Okay, that last is the dumbest sentence I have every written; I denounce myself.
Of course, the whole idea of tapes for an adult is really kind of stupid. I can understand it for a child of three or four, who cannot really grasp what is happening to her mother (or is kept carefully shielded). But for your husband? You know, the guy you can actually talk to about the future? That's idiotic. That's retarded. That's Batuickian.
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Mr TFH – how can I email you? I have a gem of a piece of art Funky-wise that I don't have a URL for.
Rembrandt36
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Not counting all the brilliant FW strip mashups many of you have contributed…I'm proud to present SonofStuckFunky's first piece of original submitted fan art! A big tip of the SoSF chapeau to Rembrandt36!
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Ha ha! Even threw in one of Batiuk's humpty-legged capital "L's"
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Thanks for posting that sir!
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Bravo Rembrandt36, that is outstanding work!! This could add a whole new dimension to our snarking. Encore!
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That's fantastic, but can you call it "fan" art?
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Excellent work Rembrandt. That's a better-looking Act I Funky than the one we see in TB's Act I flashbacks. TB must have something against the V-shaped nose.
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Meanwhile, @TFHackett has thown an original Les Moore hall monitor panel in the masthead, complete with machine gun. Look at that brickwork. This day is a whirlwind…so far. Maybe we should spread some of this excitement out, lest we get overheated.
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I love the masthead! We have asshat Les in the first panel – looking very punch worthy – and Classic Hall monitor Les who I haven't seen in decades! Kudos!
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A note on Machine Gun Les in the header image: the whole strip from 1986 is here. I did take the liberty of adding the bricks myself, as well as colorizing it.
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I laughed more at that old strip from'86 than I have at the last 5 years of strips combined.
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Man – he still had it back in 1986. What happened – was he dropped on his head? It's all Masky McDeath now…
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Lisa on tape: "Les, you were a crappy husband when I was alive, so what ever you do, for the love of God and the woman you're about to marry, and I can't say this loud enough: NEVER GET MARRIED AGAIN!"
That, my fellow reader, is why Smirky is acting like such a dick.
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Les: "Now, now, my wifey-to-be. I'm using something called "sarcasm". I know all about it because I'm a teacher and a writer. We know things."
Cayla: "…Les, most people discover sarcasm at age nine. Why do I get the feeling you didn't actually understand it until puberty?"
Les: "HOW DID YOU KN-….er, I mean,"
Cayla: "And as far as being a 'teacher' goes, you haven't deigned to scotch tape a little sharpie-written name by any door in the school since last year! And you only barely taught then!"
Les: "Well, I was so busy, preparing for me book t-"
Cayla: "THE BOOK TOURS ENDED TWO YEARS AGO, LES. We both know you just like traveling aimlessly.. And even -then-, just because you like COMPLAINING."
Les: "Yeesh. Lisa's video warned me you'd be sour and impossible today! Or is it, um, just that time of month?"
Cayla: "….*…."
(The following sequence has been censored, due to its graphic nature.)
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What is UP with Les' arm in '86? He looks like he's actually WEARING the gun, Mega Man-style.
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TFHackett…
Great look back to when FW was funny. Don't know if you know of this, but I seem to recall an mid 80's 3 panel where a couple was at dinner(could have been Les and Lisa homecoming or prom), and the waiter asks if they would like to see the wine list. Les says "Sure", and in the next panel the waiter pushes the wine bottle to a 45 degree angle.
Very subtle humor, and my friend carried that strip in his wallet as a litmus test to gauge people's sense of humor. I'd love to find it and send him a copy, but wouldn't know where to start. So I though I'd toss it out here.
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Man, you have no idea how disappointed I was when I discovered that the Cayla panel included above wasn't in the context of her discovering Les watching Lisa's recording of "In the Event You Remarry". That's just the face she should have whenever Les shoehorns the damnable Lisa into a conversation with her.
I think we were spared the watching of the Lisa tape because Batiuk couldn't come up with anything for Lisa to say that doesn't make clear just how disgusting this whole enterprise is. I obviously can't rule out that it would be too cliche.
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The sad part about Rembrandt 36's cartoon is that it's better than TB has ever drawn.
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Count me out as someone who found the '86 strip AA particularly funny, but at least it was an attempt at humor.
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