While his wife confronts her father’s killer, Darin schleps Skyler down those rickety stairs to visit Holly and Funky. Naturally, the grandchild St. Lisa never knew is good at everything, which for a five-month old consists of sleeping and eating. Of course Cory (whose seems to be mentioned in every Sunday strip) was like that too as a baby; in fact, Funky opines that Cory was that way through his teens. While we know little about teenage Cory’s eating habits (surely he has nothing on Jeremy from Zits), we do know that he made quite a fuss, and in fact was a regular visitor to Principal Nate’s office:
April 2008:
Young Mr. Winkerbean would go from disrupting class to cheating on tests, vandalizing the school and stealing from a charity.
A very Happy Easter to you all! Epicus Doomus steps in
for a couple beginning tomorrow!
for a couple beginning tomorrow!
Son of Stuck Funky 
Baby Skyler continues to be the only likeable character in….well the entire Funkyverse. The reader is easily sympathetic to the hell that this poor child is set to endure. Being force-fed Montoni pizza. Being schlepped around to interview people who loathe John Darling. Watching incredible deformed and prematurely aged people gawk and paw at him.
But the thing that really endears us to Baby Skyler is that he is a voiceless bystander to the horrible plotlines and dialogue all around him. He is one of us without the ability to snark! A truly terrible fate.
Rest assured, Baby Skyler. You may be unable to snark, but we at SOSF shall be your voice!
Was Cory Funky’s biological son? For some reason I thought Holly had Cory with some other loser before marrying Funky.
In any other town this Skyler kid would obviously be doomed, but in Westview he’ll someday be king, mark my words. A direct descendant of both John Darling AND Lisa Moore, lives next to a comic book shop and above a pizzeria, his father works at Montoni’s…this kid is nothing short of blessed if you ask me.
Har har har, Boy Lisa is part of the parent’s fraternity now so he’s free to sarcastically josh around with the Winkerbeans as they fondly remember their son all wrong. Good for him, also glad to see he’s exposing the lad to some positive pizza-related role models as well as other people who also eat everything in sight. Once he gets to meet Skunk Head his role model team will officially be complete.
Thanks for a stellar two weeks TFH and have a terrific holiday!
I think Skyler never fusses because, at the tender age of half a year old, he has learned that nobody cares about him unless he’s trotted out for show and smirks, like today.
Epicus–I can’t lie to about your chances, but [grins the only way a decapitated robot can]…you have my sympathies.
God, I hate these three people. I just hate them and wish Mossman had decided to whack more of them.
How long before we get to experience Skyler’s first smirk? And it looks like the retconning of Cory into a fine young man is well underway.
Darin: “He’s such a good baby, too. Because you just know that if a baby ever has trouble eating or sleeping, that the little brat is doing it on PURPOSE, just to torment the morally superior adult!”
Funky: “Damn right he is! If a kid ever acts out or needs (ugh) ATTENTION, it’s just a sign that they;re evil and should be treated as such! Effin’ kids. Hate ’em!”
Holly: “….*….um, I think I’ll go retcon my memories of Cory again. This conversation just got a little bit too real.”