OK: I can’t figure out for the life of me what is going on here. All I can think of is that the reason they couldn’t scan the Funkman’s boarding pass is that rather than a smartphone, Funky carries the more geezer-friendly Samsung Jitterbug.
20 thoughts on “Now Not Boarding”
Comments are closed.
Son of Stuck Funky 
One thing I’ve never underestimated is FW’s ability to be boring, confounding and as glacially-paced as possible. He’s spent nearly the entire week setting something up but I’ll be damned if I know what that something is. I’ve often suggested that TB should just abandon his little make-believe world and just make the strip about Les, The Most Annoying Man In The World, but he could also focus on Funky, The World’s Most Downtrodden Man. I mean why the hell not? Then he could just fire away at poor hapless Funky without having to worry about the rest of his meaningless characters and their idiotic exploits.
Funky has a smartphone? How was that not a month long storyline? And I don’t think referring to the TSA as “the enemy” on a cellphone in line at the airport is the best idea.
“Funky Winkerbean” and “smartphone” should NEVER be used in the same sentence.
Oh, oh! I know what’s going on! It’s called, “Batom® is running crappy gags that he wrote on the back of Luigi’s napkins for no apparent reason other than to pad his year-long advance schedule!”
Ah, THERE’S the bitter resentment at service personnel! I was wondering when that would show up.
Man, Batiuk should just stay the hell out of airports.
Look at the early-mid Act III Cory look-a-like standing behind Funky. Does BatHack already miss his Most Hated Character so much that he feels obliged to give us all a reminder that he existed? The “Typical Texting Teen” look is fooling no one. This may come as news to you, Tom, but we’re not idiots.
To be honest, I actually like Cory. 🙂 He isn’t a lumpy, dumpy, sadsack of potatoes like SOME people in this strip! (Assuming he’s still alive.)
Poor sad sack Funky Winkerbean. The inability of the airline to scan the digital boarding pass on his smartphone was just a ploy to have him directed to another line of fellow losers. They are actually boarding an alien spaceship on a one way trip to another planet.
“Welcome aboard our starship. I will be your flight steward today. My name is Kanamit. Once we reach space, I and my colleagues will begin bringing you your in-flight meals. Today, we are serving Man . . . .”
Hmm. We know that Batiuk has had a beef with airports in general and the TSA in particular for a while now. Did we really need a week-long reminder?
What I really don’t get here is what exactly Funky did that constituted a plan, and why on earth he thought it was foolproof. He had his boarding pass on his phone. A foolproof plan would be “print it off just in case you need it”. Batiuk loves doing strips like this where the intent is to make it seem like no matter how hard you struggle, like will beat you down. But invariably the “struggle” he portrays is the bare minimum, or even less, like Holly not bringing cash while going crosscountry to buy comics, or not checking to see when a comic-con is ending before walking into the middle of an empty convention center.
*life will beat you down
Nancy & Sluggo win hands down over FW today.
@Spaceman Spiff. It’s like dealing with Ned Flanders’s beatnik parents: “We’ve tried nothing and we’re all out of ideas.”
Not only should Batom® stay out of airports, he should also refrain from drawing any more Funky Winkerbeans until he can think of a proper joke.
Oh wait. Oops.
This strip has all of the unbecoming first world problem griping of Dustin with none of the mugging and sweetening attempts trying to convince the reader that such griping in funny. So, points to TB for honesty, I guess…
This arc is pointless even by the prevailing standards set by the Author.
BatHump has hated the “enemy” TSA ever since they confiscated his butt plug from his carry-on bag. How was HE supposed to know there was a 10 inch limit on the length of anal sex toys?
Tom Batiuk as Henny Youngman:
“Now, take my wife–”
[Long description of what a wife is, and his own wife’s physical characteristics, followed by a long description of the wedding ceremony, a list of the guests and the speeches they made, and a catalog of the gifts they brought, ending up with a reminisce of the time of year and how they spend their anniversary these days what with iPods and all]
–please!”
Aw, suck me.
No, seriously, suck me. Anyway, now I know which of you carry a 12 inch buttplug in your OWN carryon bag. In almost every case, no surprise.