To his credit, Mason allows the dinner discussion to turn to Cindy and her plans, and unlike Funky, does so without being condescending. Given the opportunity to discuss her pressing career concern with someone who actually seems interested, the woman who bailed on her alcoholic first husband instead raises her glass with a tiny hand. Guess these days it’s Cindy who’d “rather have a drink than a discussion”! 
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Son of Stuck Funky 
It seriously wouldn’t surprise me if Batiuk was setting Cindy up to become an alcoholic, after she left Funky for being one. It’s called “irony”.
What bothers me about Funky Winkerbean isn’t so much its determination to be a Serious Comic Strip about Serious Subjects, but that it wants to have its cake and eat it too. You can’t try to do Very Special Episodes about the dangers of alcohol abuse and then have another character make an “I need a freakin’ drink” joke, any more than you can claim to examine “contemporary issues affecting young adults in a thought-provoking and sensitive manner” while making light of bullying problems, when you’re not being outright condescending to said young adults.
His hairline keeps receding more and more. He went from a nervous young actor thinking about bent nails, to a schmarmy middle aged guy with one thing on his Viagra chugging brain. Nice caracter development, Attic (rhymes with Attiuk)
@TheDiva:
What sickens me is the DUI “joke” a month or so ago. And then the joke about kids with PTSD, in a strip with a very prominent PTSD storyline.
It sickens me that he’d have Cindy forget that she already accepted the BB job just so he could use that awful “drink it over” gag. I mean talk about disrespecting your readers, he’s basically saying there’s no reason to be paying attention at all as nothing that happens has any meaning whatsoever. Cindy accepting the job right after receiving Mason’s text was the “punch line” he used to wrap up and entire week, now she’s “not sure” it even happened? How can that be? How can Ban Tom possibly explain that one?
So this is Cindy 2015, a babbling idiot who spends every waking moment either obsessing about her declining appearance or basing every decision she makes on whatever Mason Jarr says. He’s actually fortunate that no one reads FW, otherwise he’d be pissing a lot of people off with this disturbing deconstruction of the Cindy character. You just don’t see a lot of successful professional women being turned into giggly ditzes in this day and age.
It’s somewhat irritating to have to look at his attempt to make Holly into an upbeat version of JJ Caucus. What’s even more irritating is that the more people tell him he’s embarrassing himself, the more committed he is to his locker room view of the world.
So today in panel 1 Mason has morphed into Louis Rukeyser, which means he looks as if he’s been dead for 9 years.
@Charles: Ah, well. At least he’s fitting in with the rest of the cast. They look at least ten years older than they should too.
There’s an entire They’ll Do It Every Time strip in the background of panel 1 and we don’t get a tip of the
Hatlo HatFunky Felt-Tip to the artist of influence?@Charles
lol Wow, seriously is Batiuk even drawing all of his strips anymore? He cannot be this bad at drawing his own characters, can he? Either he is one of the worst artists on the comics page or an incompetent intern has to be doing some of these strips for him. Today, not only has Mason’s hair receded even more, his face has mutated and the top of his cranium seems to be caving in too.
Boy, the artwork in act two is really terrible–it actually makes the act three stuff look slightly competent.
And yeah, in that first panel Mason Jarr the Movie Actor looks downright ugly.
You know, considering that Mason Jarr is up for a lead role in a big budget movie. isn’t hanging around a washed up middle aged ex-TV anchor really bad for his publicity? TMZ and Variety must be ripping him to shreds about this? That actually is true ageism that would happen in the media, Tommy.