O Come Let Us Adore Cory

Sigh. Gonna tread lightly today. After all, it’s Christmas. I sense that many if not most of you reading this are boomers like myself, which makes us close in age to Funky and the gang. Hence, we’ve watched Mom and Dad grow old, and maybe one or both have passed away. And many of our first and fondest memories, especially today, are of our parents. So while I have a beef with how Batiuk uses Pa Winkerbean as a prop rather than a person (another character whose name we’re never told), this one does tug a bit.

While it’s impossible to read Pa’s expression here, one thing’s for sure: Army life seems to agree with Cory. He appears relaxed and smiling, his unruly hair now shorn “high and tight” and his Wilma Flintstone necklace presumably replaced by dogtags. I’m wondering if in the coming year he’ll have an arc devoted to his life as a soldier, or if he’ll simply live on as a face on Skype.

Wishing you the happiest of holidays

and the brightest of new years! Stay Funky!

—TFHackett

25 thoughts on “O Come Let Us Adore Cory”

  1. Yeah, everyone merits a break for Christmas, even ol’ Tom Batiuk, that maddening little scamp. I will consider the break in the “Komix Korner” arc to be TB’s gift to us all. Have a merry one, fellow snarkers!!

  6. This one deserves props, if only because the characters are using a fairly recent technological development (ie. Skype calls) in a positive manner, with nary a weak wordplay or “back in my day” griping to be heard.

    Merry Christmas, all you funny folk.

  8. This is like WWI when both sides quit fighting for a little while. I got nothing to snark on here. Merry Christmas, everyone, including TomBat. Well, maybe not Les….OHWHATTHEHELL, Merry Christmas, Le….I can’t do it.

    Merry Christmas, TFH and all my SOSF homies!

  9. Awww, Batom Inc. even dug out the calligraphy marker for the C in Christmas. Peace on Earth, Good Will Toward Fellow Snarkers!

  10. Yes Pop’s a prop but It’s Christmas and is used in a good way. Sorry Merry Christmas to all, even Tom Batiuk, may Santa gift you with a sense of humor and the knowledge that laughter is a great comfort as we bump about this mortal coil.

  11. No Smirks?
    It truly is a miracle.
    This is the best Christmas ever.

    In about an hour or so my adult children arrive.
    The ole’ Pookster is making scramble eggs and hash-browns, baked ham in a cherry sauce and smoked kielbasa.
    There’s always room for guests (but not for moore).

    God Bless Us Everyone.

  13. I have to compliment TomBat on a sweet Christmas drawing. Best of all, Les is nowhere to be seen! Merry Christmas snarkers!

  15. A nice respite from the unrealistic Crazy Harry arc! This truly is just ¼ inch from reality (it looks like they’re running Skype on Mac OS 6)! And I truly appreciate the lower-case caption, which lacks those L’s that look like h’s.

    Happy Yuletide to all!

  19. I’d like this episode a lot more if plus-sized Mrs Wankerbean (what the Hell’s her name? — Donna? Holly? Snowball?) didn’t appear to be contemplating devouring Paw Wanker.

  20. Batiuk still hasn’t explained why Cory joined the army. Lifelong slacker and lawbreaker delinquent suddenly wants to be ordered around? It makes no sense and even less when you consider that his cousin Wally might be permanently messed up in the head from his military experience, where he was a prisoner of war. So why did Cory join? Because at the state fair in the summer, he realized he could do enough chinups to make the cut at basic training?

    Next year Batiuk needs to send Cory to Afghanistan and have him killed off. Its the only way to end a stupid storyline that is completely inconsistent with the character.

  22. “When will these two fatasses leave so I can go back to masturbating to Soldier Porn on my laptop?”

  23. A Merry Christmas to Tom Batiuk, without whose work our lives would be, for a variety of reasons, much poorer.

  24. What’s so bizarre is that there was no lead-in for Cory or anything. It was suddenly “I’m going to join the Army. Smell ya later” without any change in facial expression. When Funky expressed disbelief at how a slacker good-for-nothing wanted to suddenly join the Army, it could’ve easily been explained in a famous Batiuk Wall O’ Text™ that Cory was tired of being an idiot and make something of himself. Even a “I hate this shithole town and want to see the world” would’ve been better (and in character).

  25. Heck, he didn’t even explain how Cory could possibly have joined without his parents knowing! It’s 2012, not 1962. : P

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