FunkyWatch: October 2010

 

 

If you’ve found yourself frustrated with a surplus of happiness in your life, don’t worry: It’s time once again to go through a month’s worth of comics to find October’s Most Depressing Funky Winkerbean strips!

This month’s plots include Les whoring himself out to the media, Funky plotting against other people at a charity benefit run, and the laugh-a-minute romp of Rachel seeking to understand the psychological scarring left on Wally Winkerbean by alcoholism and the war in Iraq.

And no, I’m not kidding.

3 thoughts on “FunkyWatch: October 2010

  1. Samuel Beckett’s favorite comic…??

    But seriously, is “Funky Winkerbean” a deliberate send-up of the typical newspaper comic-strip? Or a subtle reflection of the death of newspapers that used to carry these comics?
    :-S

  2. Hrm. CA didn’t accept my comment, so I’m going to repeat it here:

    It’s almost like Funky Winterbeantown is a supernatural nexus of despair. I can just imagine Stephen Strange being sent to investigate the town (along with Thor, Brother Voodoo and, possibly, Deadpool) only to find himself horrified by the total bleakness of the place.

    “By the Hoary Hosts of Hoggoth! This place has been cursed by the JOYKILLER! Quick, citizen! Think happy thoughts! You must realize that life is not that bad!”

    “Hey, I’m being talked to by a guy dressed like Merlin’s flamboyant cousin and my daughter just got pregnant by a schizophrenic twice her age. Life seems pretty bad from where I’m standing.”