As November turns to December, it is once again time to look back on the month’s most depressing Funky Winkerbean strips. And this month, it gets so bad that the characters themselves start commenting on how depressing their own strip is.
Yikes.
As November turns to December, it is once again time to look back on the month’s most depressing Funky Winkerbean strips. And this month, it gets so bad that the characters themselves start commenting on how depressing their own strip is.
Yikes.
As long time ISB readers are well aware, I will occasionally develop a deep, personal hatred for a fictional character, whether it’s my illogical, reflexive loathing of Wonder Man or the completely justified burning hate I feel for Lucy Lane. This month, however, the latest target of my loathing became Les Moore, after a string of Funky Winkerbean strips in which he is just the worst.
Plus, all the depression you’ve come to know and love from that strip, in this month’s countdown!
It’s that time again, fans of despair! Join me today as I run down May’s 11 Most Depressing Funky Winkerbean and Crankshaft strips, which range from abject horror to existential dread to imaginary friend suicide! It’s a banner month for ol’ Tom Batiuk, and the end result is what might replace the suicidal seagull as my favorite Funky strip of all time.
Apparently I was so mired in despair that I forgot to post about this yesterday (though I did put it on my Tumblr, hint hint), so if you haven’t seen it yet, BEHOLD! March’s Most Depressing Funky Winkerbean strips!
This is a weird one, though, even by Funky standards, but there’s a special bonus in there: Since there was a plot about the guy who writes Superman, I went ahead and got the actual guy who writes Superman, Chris Roberson, to give his thoughts on Tom Batiuk’s latest descent into surreality! Enjoy… if you can still feel joy after reading Funky Winkerbean.
As comforting as it is to know that I’m not alone in my all-consuming obsession with the quagmire of despair that is Funky Winkerbean, the past few weeks have been strange ones for the world of Winkerbean Studies, as Tom Batiuk went on the warpath and delivered Cease-and-Desists to other daily commentary blogs, presumably because they were serving as archives of the strip outside the control of the syndicate. What’s weird though is that he also demanded the bloggers’ names, which I assume is because he wanted to mete out revenge Batiuk-Style, by which I mean “relentlessly and over the course of several years.”
Fortunately, due to our position as a diverse site specializing in reviews and commentary, ComicsAlliance remained unscathed (for now, anyway) and it’s a good thing too, because this month was a masterpiece of depression, in which a painful accident ruins not only the present, but the future as well! Don’t be fate’s chew toy! Read my commentary while it lasts!