by | October 29, 2018 · 10:30 pm

RRRRRRRR Father

Whatever the terrible RRRRRRRRR sound is, it reminds Wally and Rana, uh, Jinx, uhh, Adeela of something really scary from back in the day.

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25 responses to “RRRRRRRR Father”

  1. 42chris
    October 30, 2018 at 12:06 am

    Maybe it’s an attack by a giant mutated Inspector Clouseau. “I have come from Rrrrrrrrem(Rome). You will surrrrrrrrender.”

  2. billytheskink
    October 30, 2018 at 12:30 am

    Oh no! The long-winded pirates have sailed to Afghanistan!
    Hide your mustache wax and your Pineapple laptops!

  3. The Nelson Puppet
    October 30, 2018 at 12:34 am

    Meanwhile off camera, Crankshaft is cutting grass as his side gig and wondering what in the hell made those two dimbulbs spazz out!

  4. spacemanspiff85
    October 30, 2018 at 12:43 am

    What the hell? No photo album corners?! So this is taking place now, all over the world, or at least in three different locations??!! And since when did Wally have a twin who’s still in the Army?

  5. countoftowergrove
    October 30, 2018 at 12:47 am

    BWAWHAWHAWHAWH! It’s funny because in panel one, he would’ve more likely have said بسرعة! الى الطابق السفلي! English isn’t their first language!
    BTW, check out Zippy the Pinhead, even he is cognizant of how obtuse the Fungyverse is!

  6. Epicus Doomus
    October 30, 2018 at 12:59 am

    For any other writer this scenario would be rife with possibilities, but this is the Funkyverse. The “RRRRRRR” will not be the Ohio Air Guard running amok or Voivod performing their second album in its entirety, it’ll be something benign and harmless. Maybe an “alarm test” or something, a mishap he can easily pin on faceless bureaucracy, the safest target there is. Then Wally and whatshername will bond over their shared post-traumatic stress and become pals upon realizing that beneath their respective outfits they’re not that much different at all.

    But I am enjoying the “RRRRRRR” while it lasts. I hope it goes on all week.

    • spacemanspiff85
      October 30, 2018 at 2:53 am

      You hope? I mean come on, do you think Batiuk is going to miss the opportunity to drag out a plot all week long? I’ll be shocked if he reveals it before Monday, after a Sunday panel consisting of RRRRRRRRRRRRRR in red, over Adeela and Wally’s terrified faces in front of a black background.

    • The Nelson Puppet
      October 30, 2018 at 5:08 am

      Maybe some Kent State cosplayers are reenacting May 4, 1970:

  7. Gerard Plourde
    October 30, 2018 at 1:25 am

    First, a quick gripe about panel 2. I’m pretty sure enlisted soldiers were not permitted to bring their laptops to their combat zone deployment.

    Also, I have no idea what :RRRRRRRRRR” is supposed to represent. A turboprop airplane? A siren? A lawnmower? The sound of each could be represented by “RRRRRRRR” but they each have a different pitch. If it’s supposed to be a siren, this sound should familiar to Wally in a stateside, nincombat situation. Many volunteer fire departments use them to call members when there’s a fire.

  9. Paul Jones
    October 30, 2018 at 3:44 am

    We’re about to be beaten over the head with a big, dumb and obvious comment about How Wally And Adeela Are Linked In A Way That They Do Not Yet Know About and how shared trauma will get them to get along or something stupid like that there.

  10. hitorque
    October 30, 2018 at 9:06 am

    Guess they shouldn’t have recycled that old WWII air-raid siren into a fire alarm, eh??

    If the Funkyverse was in Kansas, then this would be a mere Tornado Siren Test and nobody would raise an eyebrow…

    • timbuys
      October 30, 2018 at 4:24 pm

      I grew up in Illinois. We had (still do? I dunnow) those. Growing up, I can recall at least two times when they went off for the real deal. The second time was when I was on my college’s quad with some friends. In the moment we had to quickly decide which of the creaky old stone buildings to towards which to move quickly, but not too quickly – wouldn’t want to look like we thought an imminent tornado is any big deal.

  11. Roscoe P. Soultrain
    October 30, 2018 at 11:51 am

    Maybe this is just because I recently rewatched a great episode of “Best of the Worst,” but I can’t help reading RRRRRRRR as the sound made by Suburban Sasquatch.

  12. beckoningchasm
    October 30, 2018 at 11:57 am

    It’s probably a microwave oven going off, and it’s reminding Wally of Montoni’s.

  13. Max Power
    October 30, 2018 at 12:47 pm

    Wally’s thinking, “I hope I’m not MIA’d again, and if I am I hope John doesn’t try to propose again to my wife before my release is the lead story on the national news…again.”

  14. Professor Fate
    October 30, 2018 at 2:45 pm

    first frame brought this Ramones song to mind.
    “Hey, daddy-o
    I don’t want to go down to the basement
    There’s somethin’ down there
    I don’t want to go
    Hey, Romeo
    There’s somethin’ down there
    I don’t want to go down to the basement”

    Second – folks are acting like this is an air raid – who’s doing the raiding? – to best of my knowledge the other side doesn’t have any planes so what’s going on?

  15. Charles
    October 30, 2018 at 3:03 pm

    Jesus Christ, this is the THIRD time Batiuk has indicated in this sequence that these two have flashbacks to war zone-induced trauma. And yet he really felt the need to remind us, devote yet another strip to it.

    No wonder these stupid sequences take three weeks.

  16. ian'sdrunkenbeard
    October 30, 2018 at 4:45 pm

  17. Hannibal’s Lectern
    October 30, 2018 at 6:35 pm

    So it’s 10:00 on Tuesday morning, when they do the weekly test of the tornado warning siren?