Well, it’s heartening to see Les kissing his flesh-and-blood living bride this New Year’s, however awkwardly. Then we’re treated to yet another twisted-face-o’-rage from Cayla, as TB belatedly delivers the payoff to the gag he’s been setting up since last week.
Tag: alcohol
Fixer-Upper
(Methinks guest blogger DavidO and myself got our signals crossed; his guest stint will begin tomorrow! –TFH)
Here’s something you don’t see every day: wimpy, prissy Les doing some actual, physical labor. Even more than the physical effort, query what the psychic toll must be for Les as Cayla helps him transform what once had been his and Lisa’s conjugal chamber.
In Situ Whatever
Batiuk’s “Funky felt tip” has been especially cruel to Linda yesterday and today: she looks like Crankshaft backed the school bus over her. I especially like the shadow cast by her nose.
The strip at first focused on gags about teenagers at the imaginary Westview High School. Over the years, it explored sensitive topics such as cancer, dyslexia, teen suicide and alcoholism.
—From just about every profile written about Tom Batiuk
But hey: writing means that you can play sensitive topics for laughs when you feel like it, right? So let’s all chuckle at the thought of Jim the Science Guy, alone in his hotel room, draining tiny, overpriced bottles of liquor while his colleagues dine without him.
Flashback to the 2007 Westview Senior Trip: Chien continues to demonstrate the “esteem” she has for her culturally deprived classmates.
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.
Son of Stuck Funky 