SoSfDavidO here, and it finally looks like something resembling a storyline is taking place! Sure, we’ll probably be treated to four day’s worth of MBA degree’d web-wonk Darrin on the roof with Funky setting up the ol’ reindeer display but at least we’ll get a sense that time is moving forward and not stuck in a standstill or moving backwards.
As today’s strip shows, Funky takes a lot of pride in being able to hang up $25’s worth of Wal-Mart decorations he bought back in February last year. It almost makes your shitty little greasepit look like a Parisian cafe!
Son of Stuck Funky 
L. Ron Hubbard (of Scientology fame) once decided he was going to write the longest SciFi novel ever written. He succeeded, but being the hack writer he was it was a piece of crap.
I wonder if TB has set himself the goal of seeing just how loathsome his characters get before someone pulls the plug on his “comic” strip. I wouldn’t be surprised if he has already gone further than he thought possible.
While they’re happy, I wonder what tragic thing is bound to happen later on.
@ComicTrek:
Funky learns Cory is dead (Rocky joined ISIS and then killed him). Funky gets stinking drunk and screams profanities to the snowman about why life doesn’t work out like it does in Starbuck Jones.
Funky figures if he can borrow some of Les’ smug self-adulation, he’ll be the main character again.
Two things save this one: Funky appears to be happy (and not sarcastically or ironically) and, obviously, Les is not there. Hey, I dislike DSH as much as anyone does but he’s no Les. Be grateful for the small victories.
And I gotta admit, I had to chuckle over the idea of Crazy Harry being the one to notice some sort of subtle difference in the annual Montoni’s Xmas display. I doubt it’s an intentional joke, but still. Then again, the guy does spend every waking hour there or right upstairs, so maybe it’s like knowing exactly how many holes there are in the vent in your prison cell wall.
Watch as Batom® stretches this out for the next few weeks, then kills off Corey right on Christmas Eve just because he can.
” It almost makes your shitty little greasepit look like a Parisian cafe!”
Not enough for Alan Furst to use it in one of his novels
Personally, I expect Corey to come home horribly injured. That way, Holly can spend the rest of her life wailing about having to take care of a hopeless cripple and Funky can have an excuse to hit the sauce again. If he’s dead, the misery lasts a little bit. If he can’t feel his legs, the misery lasts and lasts and lasts and Batiuk gets to be praised for doing something poorly that Breathed handled way better.
The only decoration Funky really needed was a red pitcher to accompany my favorite FW character, Montoni’s green pitcher.
I’m not going to worry about what the future holds. I’m just glad I didn’t hate today’s strip. I tuned out last week when I saw the typing dreck from the band man.
Once again, John’s statement makes him look like a total moron. Funky’s response should have been a sarcastic, “It is? Wow, so it is! Nothing gets past you, John, you’re just like Batman!”
@beckoningchasm: Nah. This strip has already reached critical mass for tryhad jagoffs making themselves look cool at someone else’s expense. Funky does not need to join the ranks of Les and Linda.