Moore than This

http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComick.mpl?date=20110202&name=Funky_Winkerbean

Tom Batiuk Les Moore and his old college pal share a sepia-toned memory. Ronnie’s present-day wizened appearance belies the fact that she once was a hipster coed who drove a bitchin’ VW Bug.

Les’ comment in panel 3 sent me to look up the definition of “cocksure” (I’ll leave the dick jokes to everyone else):

  1. feeling perfect assurance sometimes on inadequate grounds
  2. marked by overconfidence or presumptuousness :cocky

…so the “punchline”, while not funny, certainly has the ring of truth.

Update:
Reader “crisis du jour” has very helpfully pointed out that today’s scene plays out on the campus of Kent State. He even included a picture of White Hall, the building in the background.

Ronnie Come Lately

http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComick.mpl?date=20110131&name=Funky_Winkerbean

Les once had a job as a teacher. Now he is a full-time signer of books. The pay isn’t as much and the benefits are zilch, unless you count being fawned over by adoring middle-aged women. Once in awhile, even women from your past. Get in line, sister…

Lazy Sunday

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TB’s  Sunday Comic Book “Tributes” are somewhat akin to the “Family Circus” strips when “Bil is on vacation” and 7-year-old Billy fills in. The Funky Fedora is usually tipped to obscure titles that only the comics-geekiest would know about. TB just has to think of a comic that, however tenuously, ties into something or someone in the strip, slap on the FW banner and a vignette at the bottom “explaining” the connection.

Wally was making such great strides, traveling to Colorado and back, and venturing out to dine. But grocery shopping still gives him the willies. Fortunately Buddy’s there to “pop the corner” for his master. Rachel (I’m assuming that’s Rachel) sighs…like she really misses doing that for Wally.