Today’s strip is a lot more fun if you imagine “the best Christmas present” is not Cory’s return, but rather the sight of Funky clutching his chest, ready to keel over. Like, this:
On behalf of Team SoSF: Merry Christmas!
14 thoughts on “Christmas in the Heart (Attack)”
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Son of Stuck Funky 
So…was Funky’s dad there the whole week, sitting alone in the corner of the room? When Holly kept going on about dying down and dying back up? I like her even less now.
“Especially since nobody has gotten me a present in years…”
Heh. I like the doctored strip more.
In defense of Holly, if I had an in-law who was openly trying to accelerate his dying like the Funk Man’s dad, I’d make dying jokes at his expense. But it’s kinda obvious that Batom® threw Funky’s dad in as a non sequitur.
Merry Christmas to everyone!
Merry Christmas everybody. 🙂
Merry Christmas and/or Happy Holidays to all. Special thanks to the SoSF staff for throwing yourselves on all those grenades in 2014! It’s all about keeping one another sane, you know?
Oh that TB, always so dark. Just look at Funky’s gray pallor as he clutches his chest, all the while forcing himself to grin as to not ruin Christmas for the family. What a sicko. Seriously though, did the guy who usually colors this thing have the day off or what? And I can’t believe it’s another white Christmas in Westview, that’s forty-one in a row! Amazing.
) Aww, now this is kinda….wait, where did Funky’s dad come from??? o.o
Oh, well. Merry Christmas!!!! 😀
So, Funky’s having a heart attack, his dad teleported in and we’re supposed to ignore the fact that other people might have black wreaths on their doors. Right, Tom. Happy Snowflake Day.
I just noticed that Funky Winkerbean finally broke through the 1,000-like mark on Facebook. So Merry Christmas, Tom!
Because it’s me, here’s some research:
What I like most about these data: a comic that is about a baby who wallows in his own poop is 4 times as popular as Funky Winkerbean, and a strip that is literally named for acne pimples is nearly 80 times as popular as Funky Winkerbean.
This has been the best Christmas ever!
Oddnoc: take away those 999 ironic “likes” and it’s just Mrs. B. And she’s probably just being nice.
Swear to Bill Watterson I thought the shopped version here was the real strip and I thought “so this is how it ends or this how Les takes over?” and the next two weeks would be Funky lying in a hospital bed or dead or both.
“… a strip that is literally named for acne pimples is nearly 80 times as popular as Funky Winkerbean.”
I like “Zits”. Nothing profound, but fairly accurate portrayal of the adolescent experience (& that of his parents) — it usually makes me smile & sometimes even laugh. Unlike FW, which is too busy being pretentious & manipulative to bother with trivialities such as entertainment.
The doctored strip makes me think of something Abe Simpson said when Simpsons was still funny: “They say the greatest tragedy is when a father outlives his son. I have never fully understood why. Frankly, I can see an up side to it!”
…and Marvin is drawn by the co-creator of My Father, John Darling.
Let that sink in for a second.