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A Very Funky Christmas

Epicus Doomus
December 22, 2011 at 12:47 am
…Time for some “old senile people” hilarity, just in time for Xmas. Ho, ho ho indeed.

“Who’s this?”, asks Pa of the guy he was sitting behind five minutes ago in Funky’s car. Dunno if TB presents this as evidence of Pa’s senility, or just to provide continuity for those Sunday-only FW readers.

Today is Christmas Day, readers! If you’re celebrating, I hope it’s a merry one for you and yours. Thanks to every one of you for snarking along, and stay funky in twenty twelve!

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.

Father Christmas

In an unusual, abrupt, but very welcome midweek “jump cut”, we see Funky picking up his old man at jokeishly-named “Bedside Manor”. The rarely-seen Pa Winkerbean is one of the most forlorn figures in this strip (and boy, is that saying something). We don’t even know his first name; we only know that he never speaks and that he is fond of a certain Britcom. And if you were to swap that Santa cap hat for a baseball cap, give him some glasses and enlarge the pores on his nose, he’d look just like Ed Crankshaft!

As the stomach turns…

Billythestink called it; where’d the picture atop the telly go? Vanished! And yet Pa Winkerbean’s chin triples in just one panel!

I for one, can’t wait for this week to be over. There’s no stilted dialog to make fun of, no “solo car dates” or any such thing, just a week of slow, boring time-killing!