Hrm. SoSfDavidO here, and I’m not sure how to properly snark on today’s strip. It starts off harmless enough, basically a rehash of the last few strips but ends up careening into territory that previously TomBat had designated as a Very Special Issue.
For the record, PTSD is a very serious issue afflicting a lot of people today, and not just combat soldiers. Sure, laughter is the best medicine, but I wonder if Wally was in earshot of this silly exchange.
It’s SoSfDavidO here! Just in case we’re not sure that it’s Crankshaft playing Santa in today’s strip ,Tombat has lovingly drawn Santa’s face sliding off, revealing the bitter, unhappy alcoholic diabetic arthritic husk of a man underneath, which causes the already somewhat frightened child to start sweating bullets of fear in panel 2. Thankfully, today’s strip ends there, before Crankshaft can launch into an offensive tirade about Jews ruining Christmas, immigrant labor depressing wages, welfare mooches and what’s next, people marrying horses!?
It’s SoSfDavidO here! The only thing lamer than today’s strip is my attempt to snark on it from California, where power keeps coming and going!
SoSfDavidO here! My Funky Winkerbean strip knowledge, though by no means that of a babe in the comic woods, is somewhat limited by my brain’s ability to remember the names and lives of the entire populace of Westview without starting to forget the names and events of things in my real life. In today’s strip, the memory of a cranky ghost from Christmas past has Funky so upset he’s trying to physically remove his head.
Fellow snarkers, is Funky reliving an actual event or is this more retconning?
Wow, imagine how funny today’s reference to a Crankshaft Crossover that happened 11 years ago would be if anyone us could actually remember it! Today’s strip takes some pretty big assumptions in thinking anyone but the most obsessive compulsive Funky fans would have any idea of what John is talking about. From the sounds of it, it was epic though! Someone probably got tangled in the Christmas tree lights and dangled from the roof upside down, a cat probably knocked over a Christmas tree and Crankshaft probably gave some kid a piece of coal and reminded him that back in the depression they’d be THANKFUL for coal.
Son of Stuck Funky 