Westview’s “nuclear winter” continues unabated today as our favorite lard-laden couple fondly reminisces about the events of last year, when Holly’s deviant punk of a son joined the Army after completing the “chin-up challenge” at the PTSD fair last summer. Batom’s attempts to get his readers to like Cory continues unabated as well as he thoughtfully included a particularly heinous floating disembodied Cory head to remind us of how snazzy he looks now that he’s military-approved. Hopefully the disembodied head is mere foreshadowing, but somehow I doubt it. His weird and sudden Holly & Funky fixation is really beginning to grate, though. How much more of these two buffoons can we possibly endure? Wait…do NOT answer that.
Son of Stuck Funky 
Well I’m not going to get sucked into the weeds….even though their timeline is wacked. Soldiers get time between tech school and their first assignment…and their first assignee ain’t africkistan.
Oh well…old tommmy never did understand a single africkisstaning thing about the military. But not knowing anything never prevented him from writing about it in the past.
You know you’re in Westview when you fondly reminisce about miserable times.
Why didn’t we see this when it actually took place, not as a flashback? Batiuk has once again violated Rule #1 of storytelling: Show, don’t tell. The same thing he did when Cory stole Les’s cigar box with the Lisa’s Legacy money in it. He didn’t show us how Cory stole the money or how Funky found out about it. Thank you, Tom, for once again insulting our intelligence.
It’s like Batiuk said to himself “so they want the comic strip named Funky Winkerbean to actually show Funky, huh?” and then he made sure to make us regret that wish.
And Doug, this does violate that rule. But it’s got nothing to do with a strip from two days ago and doesn’t involve Les, comic books or Lisa. Small victories.
Look on the bright side, Funky and Holly. Cory could be in prison and having to watch out any time he takes a shower.
The more I think about this strip, the more insulted I get. Holly sounds like stinking bimbo who doesn’t know anything about the military. And as long you’re backtracking, TB, why don’t you tell the WHY Cory joined the army in the first place?
The sad thing is not that this is simply a strip about two people wandering around aimlessly playing “remember when?”, but that it’s a strip about two people wandering around aimlessly playing “remember when?” about an past interaction that wasn’t even interesting when it happened.
I can’t wait for this strip to become nothing other than two people playing “remember when?” Just panels of two guys talking about something they were both present for.
And as for the questions yesterday about why Holly doesn’t work out with Funky because she totally needs it. Don’t be silly, you silly people! Women don’t work out unless they’re weirdos or characters designed to smugly defy expectations! You might as well be asking why Holly doesn’t chew tobacco and pee standing up!
I could swear that he’s done that “Why don’t you just tell them you changed your mind” “joke” before with respect to Cory going off into the army.
We should start a Funky Winkerbean death pool. Who will get killed this year? I’d put good odds on Cory.
I think that, whenever Funky Winkerbean appears in this strip, Batominc should change the title to “Les Moore” in Old English font.
You know all this reminiscing is doing the opposite of what it is intended. I think most readers at this point WANT Cory to die in a horrible manner just so we don’t have to endure these type of strips.
Funky Winkerbean. The only strip were you actively root for the characters to die.