Tag: cellphone

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…

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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

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!”

Naturally, realizing a collision is imminent, the two drivers instinctively steer directly towards each other.

A couple weeks ago we saw TB trot out the classic “silhouette panel” to great effect. In today’s panel 3, though, he takes it a little too far! Could this be the end for Funky’s trademark PT Cruiser?

An emotionally drained Funky heads home after a trying day. Even with everything on his mind, though, his eyes are on the road and his hands are on the wheel at “ten and two”. But who’s coming the other way in that white Ford Fiesta? We’ve seen her before…and she still has not stopped laughing and telling her girlfriends about what she saw in front of Montoni’s last month: “Seriously, Ashleigh, I’m not kidding! Cory was walking around in front of the place wearing a pizza costume! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA!”

From yesterthread: Something about panel 2 in Tuesday’s strip inspired me to pay homage to Norwegian painter Edvard Munch. Enjoy.