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Communication Breakdown

Charlene
December 26, 2011 at 1:42 am
Cayla…is not actually a Cassandra; she’s simply predicting doom and gloom without any sense of either having said anything worthwhile or being ignored. In other words, she’s a typical Funky Winkerbean character.

sourbelly
December 26, 2011 at 3:01 am
Cayla…seems to have suddenly, and for no discernible reason, become a Nattering Nabob of Negativity for no particular reason.

Charles
December 26, 2011 at 4:37 am
Obviously, Batiuk needs to make Cayla as much of a negative ass as he can so she fits in with the rest of the cast. Sheesh…Can you imagine being a high school athlete, and not simply that, but a good high school athlete, with a Mom like that?

We’ve seen the She-Goats stink up the joint before. But the weird thing about the season just underway is Cayla’s sudden lack of confidence in her daughter’s team. “High expectations goeth before an upset.” “The customer is always wrong.” Covering her eyes when Kei$ha makes a free throw. Look at her lack of expression as she bemoans their lack of teamwork. What the hell has gotten into her?

Predictable

I don’t even know where to start with today’s strip. What makes “everyone” so certain that tonight’s game is Westview’s for the taking, especially with the She-Goats coming off a loss? Is the other team even lousier? And Cayla’s newly acquired defeatist attitude persists: “The customer is always wrong.” Th’ hell? No, the customer is always right. Anyway, how does that even follow what Les just said? And what percentage of faithful FW readers are gonna get the reference to mythical Cassandra, who was granted the gift of prophecy by the god Apollo? Les should have gone with “Meet my fiancee, the Amazing fucking Kreskin.”

A Very Funky Christmas

Epicus Doomus
December 22, 2011 at 12:47 am
…Time for some “old senile people” hilarity, just in time for Xmas. Ho, ho ho indeed.

“Who’s this?”, asks Pa of the guy he was sitting behind five minutes ago in Funky’s car. Dunno if TB presents this as evidence of Pa’s senility, or just to provide continuity for those Sunday-only FW readers.

Today is Christmas Day, readers! If you’re celebrating, I hope it’s a merry one for you and yours. Thanks to every one of you for snarking along, and stay funky in twenty twelve!

Getting Wade

Jason
December 17, 2011 at 8:17 pm
So I looked through all the pictures on the “meet the cast” page, and I’m left with only one question:

Who are these people, anyhow?

Seriously, hardly a third of them ever show up in the strip.

Today TB brings one of those unseen cast members off the bench. Meet Wade. Formerly a “homeless man hired to do odd jobs at Montoni’s” (according to the “Unofficial FW Fan Page“), he would later become Funky’s AA sponsor, and is pictured on the book cover at left. Wade’s presence in Funky’s Batiukmobile boosts the combined age of the car’s occupants well into the two century bracket. Knock off the singing, Pop; it’s disturbing!

AAAAA

Not one but two astounding things about today’s comic:

Pa Winkerbean can talk! Better still: he comes out with a wacky non sequitir, mixing up Alcoholics Anonymous with the Automobile Club of America (you got that, right? Right?)
Secondly: either Funky’s car has red headlights, or he and his father are taking turns driving.