FrumpleOrz posted:Ella Cinders Ella's undocumented? ![]()
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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.
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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
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Bad Machinery![]() Ryan Beckwith! How far he's come from his early days.
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Zelda is very good Shauna's Stevie Nicks pencilcase is also very good
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Daddy Daze![]() Take It From the Tinkersons ![]() Dark Side of the Horse ![]() Fort Knox ![]()
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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... ![]() ![]() ![]()
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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 ![]()
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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.
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Yvonmukluk posted:Bad Machinery 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.
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Surgeon's Tales![]() ![]() Nancy ![]() Dustin ![]() Mandrake ![]() Man in Black ![]() ![]() ![]()
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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.
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Which has led to some foreigners to think that Scandinavia has kindergartens for chickens.
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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. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]()
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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. ![]()
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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.
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No you see in comic books being an rear end in a top hat just means you’re wacky and fun.
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I genuinely laughed at that last Tinkersons.
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amigolupus posted:
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.
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Arlo and Janis![]() Tina's Groove Classic (October 3, 2008) ![]() Arlo and Janis Classic (October 3, 1998) ![]() Garfield Classic (October 3, 1988) ![]()
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I kind of love that Funky Winkerbean is about anything and everything that isn’t in any shape or form concerned with Funky Winkerbean.
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Who the gently caress is funky winkerbean anyway? did he die in the strip before it the comics thread started
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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.
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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?
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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???? ![]()
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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
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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.
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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.
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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! ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]()
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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.
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Mämmilä![]() In the penultimate panel we see Taina Suominen, Heimo's wife. She will evolve into quite a character.
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Funky Winkerbean has become a morbid game of one-upsmanship to see who can have the most miserable life. StrixNebulosa posted:Part seven... 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
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Selachian posted:I think it's supposed to be hanging on the wall. Is that a thing, hanging a hairdryer on the wall?
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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.
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Old School Peanuts (Oct 1, 1951)![]() Calvin and Hobbes (Jul 22-23, 1987) ![]() ![]() Robbie and Bobby (Dec 11-14, 2015) ![]() ![]()
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root posted:Funky Winkerbean has become a morbid game of one-upsmanship to see who can have the most miserable life. Summer lost her arm after she was in a car wreck with Wally, who drove drunk. Don't ask me why I know that.
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BigDave posted:Summer lost her arm after she was in a car wreck with Wally, who drove drunk. 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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root posted:Why were there so many stupid high school marching band jokes? 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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