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Tuesdays with Funky

GH DavidO here, trying to fill in TFHackett’s DSH-sized shoes today with an update!

After having announced every single thing that he’s been doing out-loud for the last few minutes (Jock itch is comin’ back! I’ll need to get some more cream) Funky darn near walks right into the unseen cameraman, pausing with a look of Crankshaftian indignation. The camera mercifully backs away from nose hair that could use a good weed-whacking and we’re treated to a slightly stunned Funky regarding… something. An orangutan in drag? Zombie Lisa riding a penny horse? Two dogs doing it?

The Walk

(Guest blogger update: TFH here; our guest blogger will be taking over soon!)

With his jacket jauntily flung over his shoulder, Funky waddles casually back to town, talking to himself the whole time. It is surprising to note that in fact, the sign as you enter Westview does not say “All hope abandon, ye who enter here.”

Funky notices that the trees are strangely less full than when he headed out of town just this morning…but he does not notice the dark-haired stranger that he passes on the way into…the Twilight Zone…

Dead Man Walking

Having emerged unscathed from what surely would have been a head-on collision, Funky takes stock of his situation and declares himself “lucky”. This just about confirms that we’re in for a Sixth Sense, ‘twixt-this-world-and-the-next scenario: the only lucky ones in Westview are those who get out, and as Mr. Mojo Risin’ said: “no one here gets…out alive…”

Update: meanwhile, over at my favorite webcomic, the excellent Medium Large…

SoSF news: Thanks and a tip 0′ the Funky fedora to David O, whom I have invited to be guest blogger for the coming week! I will take a seat in the back of the classroom; should be lots o’ fun!

Cheers,
TFHackett

No Bars

Panel 1: What’s “odd” is, do people in real life begin sentences with “Odd…”? Seems a little old-timey. It would be no less natural to have Funky say, “Hell-o, what’s this?”

If that’s a new iPhone 4 that Funky’s using, there’s a simple explanation why he’s “not getting any bars”: Some iPhone 4 models dropping calls when held left-handed (via Engadget). But the new iPhones just hit the market this week, and TB crafts his narrative a year in advance…

I’m thinking about that black third panel in Thursday’s strip…it led the reader to believe that one or both of the drivers were dead, or at least unconscious. Then the next day we discover that (apparently) there was no crash, only a near-miss, and Laughing Girl had left the scene. Funky’s alive…but his phone is mysteriously dead. To quote O.B. Dan from yesterthread: “Next stop, The Twilight Zone!”

Who wants to be a guest blogger for a week?

After a few months of closely following and snarking upon Funky Winkerbean, I’m beginning to understand why the creator of the original blog “went over the wall”. It becomes, to quote Casey Kasem, “Ponderous, man, [effin’] ponderous.” I could use a break, just for a week. Is anyone out there interested in filling in for seven days? Blogging experience is not crucial. I’ll even upload the strips; you just have to add the commentary. I’ll help you with the technical stuff. I’m not going away, just handing it off for a week!

Think it over and drop me a line at sonofstuckfunky@gmail.com. If there’s a lot of interest in guesting, I may pass host duties around from time to time. Thanks for reading and stay Funky!