We see from this 2010 strip that there is at least one church somewhere in or around Westview. Maybe it’s reserved solely for funerals, because all weddings in town occur either in a pizza parlor, or people’s front yards, or in the middle of a public park. Note that in panel 3, clever Rachel has apparently folded Wally’s I.O.U. into a ring which she wears on her finger.
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Son of Stuck Funky 
The gazebo…of COURSE! How could we have not seen that coming, BatBoy has been sporting a major boner over that gazebo for a week and a half already. Sigh. Anyhow, I thought Wally was “allowing” Rachel to do all the “planning” here, but so far all she’s done is breathlessly swoon over everything Wally says or does. Oh well, if that panel two slanty-eyebrowed ultra-smirk isn’t chasing her away, nothing will.
Westview – where oncologists and grief counselors live large and wedding planners starve to death.
I have a theory. Since no one other than Rachel ever interacts with Wally, I think he’s still a prisoner in Iraqistan, and he has escaped into some kind of psychotic mental black hole. Rachel is the ghost of someone he once knew, someone who once treated him kindly. It’s kind of like Total Recall, only without any three-breasted hookers and a bunch of cancer added in.
Now that Batiuk has mastered drawing that gazebo, it’s going to have its own story arc.
That Act II character page linked earlier today stated Rachel was a college student. Was.
Wally wants to get married where he dumps his spit valve. SQUEE!
If they wanted to do something really unique and off-the-wall in Westview they should get married in a church with a proper minister.
The hardest part will be scraping together the fifty bucks for the park rental fee.
—-Wally’s I.O.U. into a ring which she wears on her finger.–
If she was going to wear the damn paper in the first place, why didn’t this idiot didn’t just give her some effing Dick Tracy decoder ring or something!!
—least one church somewhere in or around Westview. —
I was going to suggest there should be a hotel somewhere around here…but who the hell wants to visit much less stay in Westview for more than 24 hours.?
All that’s there is that motel that Frankie the Rapist stayed at. If Wally and Rachel can get past the aggressive screening by the hotel clerk, that might be a choice. It can also double up as their honeymoon destination. And who knows…maybe Frankie left an open case of “Beer” in his room, too!!!
Wally can’t get married! He has forgotten that he s still married to Becky! Just because Becky threw him over for another guy while he was being held hostage overseas, doesn’t mean they are divorced. At no time has it ever been said that Wally and Becky are divorced.
You gotta hand it to the Westview Parks Department though. That gazebo is always in use and always in immaculate condition. In most places it’d be used one or twice a year, then occupied by pot-smoking teens the rest of the time.
I’m surprised that Tom didn’t have them decide to get married near Kilamanjaro. Did you know that TB climbed Kilamanjaro?
A wedding at the gazebo. Wow. Maybe Jennifer er…Jessica Darling, daughter of tv producer John Darling, will be there to record it and charge a hefty ransom…fee to Funky’s cousin nephew and possibly do a documentary on Rachel’s seemingly missing child.
Knowing Westview, that gazebo is probably somehow and in some way filled with asbestos.
Rachel: “So, where will we go for our honeymoon? I know money’s tight, but I think I can get some time o-”
Wally: “No…for our honeymoon I had a special place in mind.” *thumb jerks violently*
Rachel: “….you have got to be effin’ KIDDING ME.
Hey, a gazebo is nice…somewhat romantic…and a lot cheaper – I mean, less expensive – than a church or a hall. And if the weather holds, you can have your reception ‘cue right there in the park.
BTW, in case you’ve lost count, after Winky promised Rachel he’d go along with all her wedding plans if he could just have his dog as his best man, so far, it ain’t happ’nin’…
“Wally can’t get married! He has forgotten that he s still married to Becky! Just because Becky threw him over for another guy while he was being held hostage overseas, doesn’t mean they are divorced. At no time has it ever been said that Wally and Becky are divorced.”
I’ll have to look it up, but I believe he was considered dead, right? To the point that remains were sent back home as his? And thus Becky couldn’t be considered a bigamist, unless they’ve changed the laws surrounding the whole “Till Death Do You Part” thing.
So like who would even show up in the Park when not a single soul showed up to greet him after 10 years captivity?
Not even the local VFW.
Stumpy probably had her first marriage annuled but luckily it wasn’t made into a 2 week long story arc.Good thing Rache works at Montoni’s instead of some office in a near by normal town. This way the girls at work will envy her paper ring.
I’ve been to weddings done on the cheap because nobody involved had much money, and they can be lovely affairs even when you have to clear the rented banquet hall after 2 hours and some of the guests have to pitch in to clean things up.
But engagement ring I.O.U.s, a public park gazebo, dog-size tuxedo rental… I half expect Wally to tell Rachel that she’ll look sweet upon the seat of a bicycle built for two in tomorrow’s strip.
Looking at the 2010 strip, I have to wonder just how old Wally is?!? I’m certain at least two of the military uniforms depicted were phased out before a 30-something was even old enough to join.
The best thing about that old Sunday strip is the second flashback.
Pre-accident Becky presumably has two arms, as her left is holding her trumpet case, but darned if TB is going to let us see them both. Conveniently, marching band members have a tendency to own garment bags.
is it just me or are the comments over at comics kingdom getting hard to follow? i feel like i need a scorecard just to keep track of who is who and who is posting as someone else.
The words in that panel appear to the lyrics to a well-known wedding song. This verse goes like this:
Yes’m dear, I’ll bevel first and find you
If your mallet was you, I’ve joy to my mackerel
Now that you liked it, isn’t candy ear
See, as I got to the website and saw Rachel’s ‘clever’ bit with the IOU, Sinatra came on the radio, letting me know he’s got a string around his finger. Apparently even dead crooners are getting in on the snarking.
Is that Sunday strip the first time we’ve seen a man of the cloth in Westview? Pity he doesn’t warrant further characterization. Though as people have pointed out, he is busy with funerals and last rites 24-7..so I guess he doesn’t have a whole lot of time to hang around Montoni’s and Comix Corner.
Re: the CK site, it isn’t as if there aren’t some really funny comments there because there are, but yeah, also a ton of sniping and back & forth nonsense. Also interesting how few pro-FW comments they attract, other than the predictable “if you don’t like it…” ones. Those “real” FW fans are certainly a quiet bunch…both of them, in fact.
Has anyone ever run into an honest to goodness FW fan at ComicCon? I mean I real one, not some guy trying to collect 50 autographed copies of Lisa’s Story for his retirement fund.
WESTVIEW ONCOLOGIST: And someday those 50 copies will be worth $50…combined.
“I love it!”
Of course you do, Rachel, because if you didn’t, that’d be a woman disagreeing with an idea a man had, and that’s just not done in Westview.
Watch how Wally concedes all the planning to Rachel, but every decision is his. He’s the decider. She just has to figure out how to make it happen. It’s all very typical.
I very rarely look at the Comics Kingdom comments. Occasionally, when grabbing images to alter, I’ll peek at them, but I usually find myself discouraged by all the back-and-forth that really has nothing to do with the subject at hand. The comments here are much more intelligent and insightful, and much funnier too.
I would love to see a well-reasoned response from an actual Funky Winkerbean fan, but all the pro-FW comments at Comics Kingdom, as noted, are just “If you don’t like it, don’t read it!” and “Oh, and I suppose you’re curing cancer, you’re so much Moore talented!”
Charles: You’ll also note that Wally has yet to actually COMMUNICATE with Rachel about any of this. Thus far, what he’s actually done ASSIGN HER TASKS without consulting which tasks she personally wants to do or has ideas for.
In other words, this marriage is a bigger sham than Retcon! Ann and Fred’s!