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Parahexavoctal
Oct 10, 2004

I AM NOT BEING PAID TO CORRECT OTHER PEOPLE'S POSTS! DONKEY!!

FrumpleOrz posted:

Ella Cinders


Ella's undocumented? :ohdear:

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amigolupus
Aug 25, 2017


So there really were strips that had their daughter in it. I really thought Batiuk forgot about it.

But wait a second... How long has Lisa been sick, then? I assume it has to be at least several months since she started going to chemotherapy, then there was that short period where she stopped getting treatments and her hair started growing back, and then a couple more months for Lisa to end up in this state. Then there's the doctor saying Lisa only had a few months left to live, so Lisa decided to stop going to chemo.

And they're only just explaining what's happening to their daughter now? I'm pretty sure any kid would immediately notice and would want to know why their mom lost her hair, or why she doesn't have energy for anything, or why she's crying or getting sick from time to time.


drat, Mopsy's pretty hardcore. She's getting her leg wound stitched up and she's not even flinching or anything.

coronatae
Oct 14, 2012


This is the one I was remembering! I thought it was sweet when I first read it as a teenager and I still think it's sweet.

gently caress those videos though, especially the one we'll eventually see labeled "for the other woman"

Also what does she even go to Congress to talk about? Guess I'll find out

Alhazred
Feb 16, 2011




Zelda

Yvonmukluk
Oct 10, 2012

Everything is Sinister


Bad Machinery


Ryan Beckwith! How far he's come from his early days.

nishi koichi
Feb 16, 2007

everyone feels that way and gives up.
that's how they get away with it.
nekonaughey :ohdear:

My Lovely Horse
Aug 21, 2010

Zelda is very good

Shauna's Stevie Nicks pencilcase is also very good

Strontium
Aug 28, 2009

Dexter didn't much care for the party.
Daddy Daze


Take It From the Tinkersons


Dark Side of the Horse


Fort Knox

Samovar
Jun 4, 2011

When I want to relax, I read an essay by Engels. When I want something more serious, I read Corto Maltese.


Now, I'm not a native speaker of Swedish (just trying to learn it), but I'm under the impression that 'they' in Swedish (De [confusingly, pronounced 'dom']) cannot be used for a single person, so effectively, besides from you (Dig), there's not a gender-neutral pronoun. Is that the case?

Putting linguistics to the side, in today's Corto Maltese!: Corto really should stop eating all that psilocybin before bedtime, or I've heard about getting absorbed in a book before, but this is ridiculous!, or Corto meets someone who wishes that they could wile away the hours, conferring with the flowers, consulting with the rain...



Mercedes Colomar
Nov 1, 2008

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
How is Fort Knox so consistently painfully banal. It's a non-joke.

Family Circus


Rose is Rose


One Big Happy


Foob


Compu-Toon


Bizarro

catlord
Mar 22, 2009

What's on your mind, Axa?

Manuel Calavera posted:

How is Fort Knox so consistently painfully banal. It's a non-joke.

I almost like that last panel in this one, but like... poo poo, it's like Paul Jon almost learned what humour is, and is still trying to understand it. Data had a better grasp of comedy in Generations.

amigolupus
Aug 25, 2017

Yvonmukluk posted:

Bad Machinery


Ryan Beckwith! How far he's come from his early days.

Ah, right. 20-something Ryan dated 18-year old Sarah Grote. It was creepy back then and still creepy now. Though it's not as messed up as the time 17-year old Erin Winters married Alistair Crowley, got sent to hell during the wedding and everyone magically forgot she existed.

Kennel
May 1, 2008

BAWWW-UNH!
Surgeon's Tales



Nancy


Dustin


Mandrake


Man in Black


Strontium
Aug 28, 2009

Dexter didn't much care for the party.

Samovar posted:

Now, I'm not a native speaker of Swedish (just trying to learn it), but I'm under the impression that 'they' in Swedish (De [confusingly, pronounced 'dom']) cannot be used for a single person, so effectively, besides from you (Dig), there's not a gender-neutral pronoun. Is that the case?

There's "hen" as an increasingly common singular they.

Alhazred
Feb 16, 2011





Which has led to some foreigners to think that Scandinavia has kindergartens for chickens.

StrixNebulosa
Feb 14, 2012

You cheated not only the game, but yourself.
But most of all, you cheated BABA

Part seven.

Funky Winkerbean - August 13-20, 22, 25-26. The first week is cancer, the second week is completely unrelated, but actually features Funky Winkerbean so I figured I'd include a few bits from it.

















gleebster
Dec 16, 2006

Only a howler
Pillbug
I warned you about marching band hilarity, bro!

Anyway, in Juliet Jones, what exactly is Kiwi's role? I mean, if J Jonah Jackson is salesman and pilot, and Eve was pressed into service doing the paperwork, what does Kiwi do? He provides worried looks and eventually, I assume, exposition.

amigolupus
Aug 25, 2017


So this implies that there are other people in the Funkyverse who have cancer too. I'm baffled as to why people keep treating Lisa's Story as if Lisa was the only one in the universe who ever got cancer.

Also, why is Lisa the one speaking to the congress, again? If Holly's part of a group that wants to fight against the cuts to cancer institutes, then shouldn't the group have already picked their representatives? Is Holly supposed to be the group president and that's why she can just take Lisa with her?


Christ, Harry is such an egotistical rear end in a top hat. It's a loving thunderstorm and the kids are playing musical instruments made out of metal, which they probably can't even hear anyway. Meanwhile his replacement band director is standing on top of a metal platform being buffeted around by the wind, and she can't hold onto the railing to steady herself because she has to hold the phone to answer Harry's call. Everyone is going to be miserable and get a cold because of this. And football games get postponed because of thunderstorms, anyway, so this makes Harry an even bigger prick for forcing this on them.

BigglesSWE
Dec 2, 2014

No you see in comic books being an rear end in a top hat just means you’re wacky and fun.

Green Intern
Dec 29, 2008

Loon, Crazy and Laughable

I genuinely laughed at that last Tinkersons.

Stultus Maximus
Dec 21, 2009

USPOL May

amigolupus posted:


Christ, Harry is such an egotistical rear end in a top hat. It's a loving thunderstorm and the kids are playing musical instruments made out of metal, which they probably can't even hear anyway. Meanwhile his replacement band director is standing on top of a metal platform being buffeted around by the wind, and she can't hold onto the railing to steady herself because she has to hold the phone to answer Harry's call. Everyone is going to be miserable and get a cold because of this. And football games get postponed because of thunderstorms, anyway, so this makes Harry an even bigger prick for forcing this on them.

Yes, that is how he was always portrayed. But back when the strip was about jokes and vaguely surreal whimsy, it was okay. A lightning strike was as realistic as a hall monitor with a Vickers.

Pastry of the Year
Apr 12, 2013

Arlo and Janis



Tina's Groove Classic (October 3, 2008)



Arlo and Janis Classic (October 3, 1998)



Garfield Classic (October 3, 1988)

BigglesSWE
Dec 2, 2014

I kind of love that Funky Winkerbean is about anything and everything that isn’t in any shape or form concerned with Funky Winkerbean.

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold
Who the gently caress is funky winkerbean anyway? did he die in the strip before it the comics thread started

Ghostlight
Sep 25, 2009

maybe for one second you can pause; try to step into another person's perspective, and understand that a watermelon is cursing me



That's the crazy thing. He's alive and still appearing in the strip. He's the owner of the pizza parlour that sometimes people visit for no reason, and the father of the Iraq war veteran who hasn't been seen in what feels like two years.

FrumpleOrz
Feb 12, 2014

Perhaps you have not been to the *Playground*.
The *Playground* is for Taalo and for Orz, but *Campers* can go.
It more fun than several.
You can go there for too much fun.

I can't figure this one out. The composition of the first panel makes no sense to me. Is the hair dryer just floating there?

StrixNebulosa
Feb 14, 2012

You cheated not only the game, but yourself.
But most of all, you cheated BABA

Ghostlight posted:

That's the crazy thing. He's alive and still appearing in the strip. He's the owner of the pizza parlour that sometimes people visit for no reason, and the father of the Iraq war veteran who hasn't been seen in what feels like two years.

wait what the gently caress this guy isn't Funky Winkerbean????

StrixNebulosa
Feb 14, 2012

You cheated not only the game, but yourself.
But most of all, you cheated BABA

WAIT if iraq man isn't funky, I FOUND HIM



and since I found him, I have a special gift for you all, give me a minute to get it together

amigolupus
Aug 25, 2017

Ghostlight posted:

That's the crazy thing. He's alive and still appearing in the strip. He's the owner of the pizza parlour that sometimes people visit for no reason, and the father of the Iraq war veteran who hasn't been seen in what feels like two years.

Don't forget Funky's father who last we saw was loving his way through the retirement home, to the point that a nurse told Funky to remind his dad about safe sex.

Selachian
Oct 9, 2012

FrumpleOrz posted:

I can't figure this one out. The composition of the first panel makes no sense to me. Is the hair dryer just floating there?

I think it's supposed to be hanging on the wall.

And Iraq Man is Wally Winkerbean, Funky's younger cousin.

StrixNebulosa
Feb 14, 2012

You cheated not only the game, but yourself.
But most of all, you cheated BABA

Back in the gap where Lisa was growing her hair out (as her cancer was mistakenly thought to be in remission) and before she found out that she could sue her doctor (and didn't), the strip did a bunch of unrelated storylines. The teenager started looking for his birth mother. There was a school trip. I skimmed this entire section because who cares, but now that I know the mysterious identity of one Funky Winkerbean, I present to you...

Funky Winkerbean's PSA about Cancersticks - Feb 19-24, one whole week that functions as a warning, straight from the lips of Funky himself. Don't smoke, kids! It causes cancer!






Bobulus
Jan 28, 2007

Wally is the one that ends up with PTSD and a dog, right?

It kills me that Funky isn't running the pizza place for any good reason like he's related to the owner. It was just a place that they hung out at a lot when this comic was about them being teens, so someone had to keep it running so it could stay relevant after the timeskip.

LazyQ
Feb 22, 2011

Mämmilä



In the penultimate panel we see Taina Suominen, Heimo's wife. She will evolve into quite a character.

root
Jun 17, 2000

Booska mask replica...
Funky Winkerbean has become a morbid game of one-upsmanship to see who can have the most miserable life.

StrixNebulosa posted:

Part seven...

Why were there so many stupid high school marching band jokes?

And how did Summer lose her arm!? Did the Funkyverse say, "As Lisa's daughter you can have a little suffering... as a treat"?

The whole "Lisa's tapes" thing always struck me as kinda ghoulish and unhealthy. For a real-life take on this situation check out the story "Letter Day Saint" from an episode of This American Life...

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/401/parent-trap/act-one-0

FrumpleOrz
Feb 12, 2014

Perhaps you have not been to the *Playground*.
The *Playground* is for Taalo and for Orz, but *Campers* can go.
It more fun than several.
You can go there for too much fun.

Selachian posted:

I think it's supposed to be hanging on the wall.

And Iraq Man is Wally Winkerbean, Funky's younger cousin.

Is that a thing, hanging a hairdryer on the wall?

Stultus Maximus
Dec 21, 2009

USPOL May

Raskolnikov38 posted:

Who the gently caress is funky winkerbean anyway? did he die in the strip before it the comics thread started

In the original strip, he was the silly carefree 70s guy in the school (as opposed to neurotic loser Les, bully Bull, etc).
Then as Tombat decided that all life was misery, he worked at the pizza place, became an alcoholic, got divorced (from the "popular girl" he had married), got fat, lost father to dementia.

readingatwork
Jan 8, 2009

Hello Fatty!


Fun Shoe
Old School Peanuts (Oct 1, 1951)




Calvin and Hobbes (Jul 22-23, 1987)






Robbie and Bobby (Dec 11-14, 2015)



BigDave
Jul 14, 2009

Taste the High Country

root posted:

Funky Winkerbean has become a morbid game of one-upsmanship to see who can have the most miserable life.

Why were there so many stupid high school marching band jokes?

And how did Summer lose her arm!? Did the Funkyverse say, "As Lisa's daughter you can have a little suffering... as a treat"?

The whole "Lisa's tapes" thing always struck me as kinda ghoulish and unhealthy. For a real-life take on this situation check out the story "Letter Day Saint" from an episode of This American Life...

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/401/parent-trap/act-one-0

Summer lost her arm after she was in a car wreck with Wally, who drove drunk.

Don't ask me why I know that.

Stultus Maximus
Dec 21, 2009

USPOL May

BigDave posted:

Summer lost her arm after she was in a car wreck with Wally, who drove drunk.

Don't ask me why I know that.

That's not Summer. That's Becky.

e: Becky lost her arm thanks to Wally's drunk driving, became the new band director, and remarried Comic Book Guy after Wally got captured in Iraqistan.

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amigolupus
Aug 25, 2017

root posted:

Why were there so many stupid high school marching band jokes?

And how did Summer lose her arm!? Did the Funkyverse say, "As Lisa's daughter you can have a little suffering... as a treat"?

Because Batiuk believes that your life begins and ends in high school, even if it means you take the place with you your entire life.

And I don't think that's Summer, but a different character. I got some of the details from SonOfStuckFunky, this is supposed to be Becky and she lost her arm when she and her boyfriend had a drunken car accident in the same mountain road where Bull killed himself. I think they even drove right through the same guardrail that Bull did?

e: gently caress, beaten.

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