Guess that’s it for the ol’ PT Cruiser!
Looks like budget cuts have hit Westview hard. No cops, no firefighters, just two EMTs and a gurney to take our “buddy” over yon grassy knoll. Hopefully the cellphone talker who caused this crackup doesn’t need medical attention; our rescuers have their hands full.
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…
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!”
Women drivers, huh? Looks like the PT Cruiser has come through the close call, none the worse for wear except a little overheating. So that black final panel yesterday was just a tease…and/or laziness…
Funky’s a lot calmer under the circumstances than I would be. “A little too close”? I’d be cussing my head off. I don’t know how he’s able to surmise that the “other car took off” and is not in a ditch on the other side of the road, judging from those skid marks.
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?
Son of Stuck Funky 