Today’s strip show Bull reverting back into full-on caveman mode, ready to beat the piss out of whoever is smokin’ in the boys room. Good thing they’re already near a toilet, though Bull will probably finish with the American Standard Swirlee.
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Son of Stuck Funky 
WOW! It’s a momentous day in the Funkyverse, as for the first time in many months, something appears to be happening. Not “happening” as in “wow, look what’s happening!” but “happening” as in “wow, something mildly unexpected that isn’t a weak gag about the football team or the band is taking place”. Yes, the “joke” is abysmal and the less said about the artwork the better, but still. That puff of smoke is the most interesting and welcome thing to happen in FW since Frankie showed up. Now let’s see how TomBat manages to lame it all up in his usual lame way.
Fantastic title today, DavidO, just epic.
its the three stooges of batville, hope there smoking bud in there
Interesting plot twists:
– Cory is back from Iranifghaniraq and is teaching some boys how to smoke a joint in the restroom.
– Franky is in the bathroom deciding to film a new realty TV show about the ineptitude of Westview’s teaching staff.
– Susan is in the bathroom burning a voodoo doll of Les in effigy.
– The computer has teleported in from the broom closet after some hapless janitor plugged him in and he’s PISSED. Bull and Les are about to be telefragged into an inflatable football head.
I actually like the idea of Bull worrying that the teens are doing something detrimental to their health, and solving it by beating the crud out of them. It would be the most logical decision any of these characters made in years.
So…Bull can’t be bothered to do his actual coaching job, preferring to slag off the team as a collection of losers. But let him smell cigarette smoke (assuming those puffs aren’t farts)…now, suddenly, he is motivated to tackle a problem and solve it. Got it.
Why hasn’t this man been fired? Or at least disciplined? Is it because there’s nothing about disciplining teachers in the student handbook?
“Funky Winkerbean is a reality-based comic strip that depicts contemporary issues affecting young adults in a thought-provoking and sensitive manner.”
Since we are dealing with contemporary problems here, it’s good to note that he thinks that teen smoking in the showers is a contemporary problem.
Pay no attention to that “H” word or gangs.
But then in his mind it just might be 1968 all over again.
Another thing, the shower entrance is labeled “MEN.”
Does this mean that Westview is so socially progressive that they have a shared Mens’ and Womens’ locker room?
Check out those three “young adults” in panel 1. Thought I was reading Mary Worth for a second there.
TB is on a pace to break his own record by completing two punch lines this year.
This is rapidly becoming like a bad Gil Thorp plot.
Or in other words…..a Gil Thorp plot.
Thank you. Thank you. I’m here all week!
Funky Winkerbean is a pretty pedestrian name by Gil Thorp standards, though.
So, gang, in terms of newspaper comics rankings, where would Funky Winkerbean sit?
My personal opinion: the most galling thing about Funky Winkerbean is that by the pathetic standards of the Newspaper funny pages it’s far from the worst widely-circulated comic. I’d say that award would have to go to Apartment 3G, Crock, or the pre-revamped Dick Tracy. I’m going to say Apartment 3G. Even when Funky Winkerbean was at its nadir (the Susan/Les/Cayla love triangle) it was nowhere near as frustrating and tiresome as A3G.
“Mmmm… popcorn! So THAT’S where they moved the vendos! Wait a minute… that’s not popcorn, it’s,…. MR. BUBBLES??!”
Wow, Coach Bull storms into the boys’ showers… on probably the one-year anniversary of the Jerry Sandusky story. Weird, TB, and not at all appropriate.
—So, gang, in terms of newspaper comics rankings, where would Funky Winkerbean sit?—-
The top 10 worst strips currently?
1. Spiderman – mostly because it’s subject matter has produced such fantastic stories in it’s comic book formation. It’s almost mind-boggling how you can make such shit stories with such a great character. I would kill to be a artist on Daily Spiderman comic strips. Even with the confining medium of daily strips, I’m willing to bet I could make some awesome stories out of it!! And the funny thing is it was a great strip during the 70s and early 80s until Marvel decided they didn’t want people reading their comics for free.
2.Gasoiline Alley – mostly because it is ridiculously lifeless. It has nothing interesting going on in it. Reading Gasoline Alley is like watching someone die of old age really slowly!!
3. crankshaft takes the 3rd spot. Only because, I think Crankshaft is more depressing than Funky Winkerbean.
4. Funky Winkerbean takes the 4th spot.
5. Argyle Sweater, F minus, Non-Sequitor..and all the other Far Side ripoffs get the fifth spot.
6. Pigborn gets the sixth spot. Mostly because I can reasonably jack off to 9 Chickweed Lane. Pigborn is like straight porn written by gay men.
7. 9 Chickweed Lane – Well to be fair there is only one female character worthy of my semen spillage. The rest of the time the strip is just like watching the worst soap opera ever made.
8. Heathcliff – While Garfield had it’s moments and even Marmaduke is not bad…Heathcliff was never a great character or comic. And right now…the strip just makes absolutely no damn sense whatsoever!!
9. Apt 3g – Falls in the Spiderman character of how could you fuck this one up? 3 attractive girls in Manhattan? This should be an easy thing to write about. Yet three 3g overs no romance, sex, intrigue or plot development at all!! Add to how poorly it is drawn, you have one of the weakest strips in existense,
10. BC – I’ll put this one zombie legacy strip at the ten spot. As a truly zombified strip, BC takes the prize for simply not adhering to it’s theme. How many anachronisms occur in a week;s worth of strips. It’s cavemen!! Even the Flinstone’s got this shit right most of the time!!
For anyone wondering…my top five strips of all time.
1. Peanuts
2. Bloom County
3. Pearls Before Swine
4. Doonesbury
5. Calvin & Hobbes
I have to admit, I admire Heathcliff’s bizarreness. At least it’s something other than wheel-spinning or lame puns.
Hmm, we just had a weeklong love fest with Bull.. in some TV serials and anime, all this attention lavished on a character is usually done so we care more about the character… right before they DIE.
I haven’t peeked ahead! I’m just speculating.
@westviewoncologist – Out of your list, I have stopped reading 1, 2, 6, 7, and 10 because of the effect they had on my blood pressure. Other strips I stopped reading that need to be on that list include Mallard Filmore, Herb & Jamaal, Marvin, and Luann.
“all this attention lavished on a character is usually done so we care more about the character… right before they DIE.”
That was so true in soaps, which I watched for 50 some years until the good ones were all cancelled. Died or kidnapped — I’d settle for either here.
—stopped reading that need to be on that list include Mallard Filmore, Herb & Jamaal, Marvin, and Luann.—
Mallard Fillmore was definitely a consideration, if it wasn’t for the fact that the cancelled strip State of the Union made Mallard Fillmore seem tame by comparison. Regardless of your political stance, State of the Union might have been the most offensive and downright idiotic strip ever created. It was more propaganda than a political strip. It even failed to make it’s point in it’s last strip. It actually compared Ronald Reagan to a bloodsucking vampire!! An opinion that most liberals felt about the man!! How epic a fail was that!!!
Herb & Jamal – don’t really read Herb & Jamal much except on Fruhlinger’s website.
Luann -would have been #11
Marvin-poop jokes aside I just don’t get offended by Marvin as I do the other comics.