Ah! Christmas in Westview, where the yellow cabs are orange and you exit the cab and walk around to the driver’s side window to settle up your fare. The sight of Mom and Dad trimming the tree brings a skull-splitting smile to Cpl. Cory’s face.
Author: TFHackett
Interest Adjustment
Batiuk does love his little in-jokes. For the second time this month, we get a reference to a certain “old bus driver” whom everyone remembers but nobody can name. Something else that TB loves is really lame wordplay, and having his FW characters invoking Ed Crankshaft lets him double his output of malaprops.
Merry and Blight
SpacemanSpiff85 December 20, 2014 at 12:24 am If we had any clue at all what was going on here, this might actually have been dramatic. Batiuk likes to throw in cheap drama without any of the buildup to make it meaningful.
Cheap drama and a Sunday victory lap. Dr. Chill’s presumably good news elicits from Funky the first non-ironic smiles we’ve seen from him in months. He whips out his phone again to re-read the doctor’s text (and for the benefit of those lucky Sunday-only readers). Here’s what brings joy to Westviewvians: the news that you’re not going to die…just yet. Batiuk wraps up this mini-non-drama with a Christmas bow in the form of an improbable, reverse engineered punchline.
Saturday, Dec. 20
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Dr. Chill
Three days of strips showing Funky standing in line at the airport; jump cut to Funky’s plane touching down at…home? His business destination? Still not 100% clear on which leg of the trip this is. Well, I’m sure the flight was as miserable and boring as his time waiting in line. No sooner than he’s given permission to use his phone, Funky is rewarded with what surely is more bad news from either his own doctor or possibly his Dad’s. The next cycle of strips won’t appear online before midnight Friday, which means I’m in the dark along with the rest of y’all! It also means the next post won’t show up here until midnight. Stay tuned (yawn)…
Son of Stuck Funky 