Tag: nobody at all

Link to today’s strip.

Again, we are lacking any of our regular Funky Winkerbean cast…which is fine by me.  Young Blonde is watching what the youth of today are always watching–caterwauling blondes.  I mean, look at the mouth on that TV woman.  Did someone just hand her a comic book?

Meanwhile, Jff is up in the atiuk, transported by joy.  Much as I criticize, it is nice to see someone in any Batiuk work enjoying life.  And if “enjoying life” means reading comics, eating cookies and drinking milk, well, I’m not going to make trouble.  (By the way, if you’re wondering what’s going on anatomically, I think Jff is holding the cookie with his right hand, not holding both cookie and comic in some twisted left hand.) It’s also refreshing to see someone enjoy a comic book as a story being told, rather than just a handful of old pulp pages stapled together and intended to be stored for future worship.

Enjoy your comic, Jff!  Don’t let the fact that you’ll probably die tomorrow spoil the mood.   Whoops!  I didn’t mean that.  Whew!  Almost won a Pulitzer there!

Starting tomorrow, Fearless Leader returns.  Thanks for your indulgence!

Link to today’s strip.

Wow, Jff continues to delve deeply into complete mania…over a comic book.  I’m sure glad Holly didn’t give him two comic books, or we’d be looking at exploded brains all over the walls.  And now we can see whose birthday, briefly glimpsed yesterday, is being celebrated (I had the idea that it was Jff’s birthday, and Holly had scribbled a message on the comic book in grease pencil).  It’s Daisy Air Rifle’s birthday!

Good thing there aren’t any air rifles around, or Jff’s uncontrollable madness might result in tragedy.

Of course, it wouldn’t be a tragedy we would care about, nor would it be a tragedy that could help Funky Winkerbean.  Because unless I miss my guess, this is the first Funky Winkerbean strip in which none of the actual Funky Winkerbean characters appear.  So if all these people died, we’d still have Les, Dinkle and the other denizens of the Winkerbean Mythos.  Damn it.