Get yer Funky Winkerbean tropes here! Let’s see how many I can list:
- The world’s greatest videographer once again has no camera and no one documenting her big event (Roberta’s dad is a better videographer, in that he occasionally shoots some video).
- A lame pun!
- The falling leaves…
- The artist suddenly forgets how to draw a character (Der-hey! He suddenly looks like Conan O’Brien in panel 1).
- The smirking moai, usually an act of Les, is now Summer’s turf (panel 2, left).
This one’s not a trope (yet), but what has been going on with that banner? Its right side is suspended by—magic? a ginormous protrusion from Derwood’s occipital skull? writing?
Son of Stuck Funky 
5 bucks says the baby is named Lisa- whether it’s a boy or girl!
Today’s Komix Konundrum: Do we wait to have Jessica give birth over Thanksgiving dinner with the soon-departed Fred the Wonder Slug, or do we drag out the Cancer Run for a couple of weeks, induce early labor along the track, and and name the baby girl after the race’s sainted namesake? Decisions, decisions… lucky thing Batiuk’s had a full year in advance to weigh these options.
I suppose that is Darin?
Doesn’t look like Darin.
Zero continuity.
Oddnoc & MP: You aren’t kidding…that is the worst Boy Lisa rendering ever. Don’t do a Special Lisa’s Legacy Cavalcade Of Special Lisa-Related Guest Stars if you can’t draw them, Tom. Ugh, think about who that baby’s grandparents are going to be and tell me you didn’t suddenly feel nauseous.
Speaking of shitty drawings, get a load of Lisa’s Legacy’s official ambassador of goodwill Summer. First she’s in full “squeeeee” mode as she greets (ugh) Big Bro (ewww) then it’s a truly disturbing, inexplicable and downright painful-to-behold hatchet-grin as the Boy Lisa impostor and his idiot bride smirkingly blurt out their banal little pregnancy joke as the leaves really begin to come down in earnest. Blech. She looks like she’s trying to swallow her own face there.
get a load of detail tommy put into background people
Finally, something chronic FW readers can relate to – running to the bathroom. I know many a FW strip has made me sick in my pants.
“Jess and I are going to walk, for obvious reasons. Oh, shit, the strip is only half over. She can’t really run right now. Because she’s pregnant. That’s the obvious reason. In case you missed it.”
There’s more plot lines coming together here than in a Dan Brown novel. So Darin has put the spawn of Lisa in this woman’s belly. The child’s grandsire is Dead John Darling whose murder was solved by Lisa’s beloved Les. In fact Les has written books about this kid’s granddad and grandmomma. You’d think the tyke would be FW royalty when he pops out. But I don’t think that’s going to matter much, cause more kids go missing in this strip that in a Stephen King novel. All these people are drawn the way they are (badly), sharing some potty humor, because he wanted to anchor the tag end of that stupid banner to the living breathing proof of Lisa’s Legacy.
Speaking of people who think they are drawing religious altarpieces, that smirking half profile is showing up an awful lot. Its becoming his trademark. If he were a 15th century master, he’d be known as the Master of the Smirking Half Profiles. Cause nobody would remember his real name.
“The bushes are just over there, Jessica. Les and Funky will be pleased–very pleased–to stand guard for you.”
“The only running I do know is to the bathroom”
I really hope she’s referring to vomiting.
Found a nominee for Most Punchable Smirk of 2013.
I found all six!
1. Summer gets a chin
2. Darin transforms into some kind of blond Fonzie
3. Oak leaf becomes a maple leaf
4. Darin’s coat goes from bomber jacket to dirty windbreaker
5. Jessica goes from being thought a fool to opening her mouth and removing all doubt
6. Wait… couldn’t Darin still run?
6b. What’s the right side of that Lisa’s Legacy banner attached to anyways?
If the baby is a boy, it will be named Les.
Actually, there’s a precedent that the baby might not be named at all, but in some out of context way will be referred to as “Jim.”
That’s assuming it’s an actual baby, and not just a great big smirk.
Jess: “Of course, it doesn’t help that Darin keeps me locked away in our pizza parlor apartment, muttering darkly about how “The New Fruit of Lisa” must be protected. It’s pretty creepy, actually.”
Summer: “Oh, HA-HA! That’s so funny! You’re a real scream, Jess!”
Jess: *stony silence*
Summer: “Um…”
Darin: “Why are you laughing? Don’t you agree that the heir must be kept sacred? DON’T YOU?!?”
There is a possibility that if the child is a boy, it would be named after Jess’ father, John. Since she’s showing pretty well, the child could be born during the run.
I think the baby will be named “’s chance in hell” after Funky’s car.
No doubt it will be born under the astrological sign of Cancer.
What I’m telling you is that if this fetus didn’t have bad luck, it’d have no luck at all.