I would say more, but have never mastered the secrets of the spoiler box.
Still, well worth looking at
The Reaper is coming for Lisa Moore. He’s apparently a dapper-looking gentleman with a Phantom of the Opera-esque mask.
Robin
That was wonderfully handled. I really need to adjust my meds.
I think we all knew that was coming.
That is a beautiful image. I love it.
This story arc is hard to take, but I can’t stop reading.
I haven’t seen Funky Winkerbean in years. I don’t recall it being serious and the art has changed immensely. When did all that happen?
At one point, years ago, Funky and the guys were aged and made teachers and stuff in the school. New kids were brought in. It got more serious about that time.
I’ve been wondering if the timing of Jim (if he’s dead - not sure, but another stroke is probably not worth going into with the new hybrid strip) and Lisa Moore is not a coincidence. Perhaps the reaper is going to pick up Jim after collecting Lisa, so they get to move on together? (I could see both strips doing this).
Just MHO, of course.
It’s not just serious. It’s downright ridiculously depressing.
Batiuk’s apparent burning hatred for both his characters and the readers is a constant source of joy and snark over at Comics Curmudgeon.
Today’s the day (and you do fine with URL links, so this should be no problem.)
Here’s the syntax; just change the parentheses to square brackets:
(spoiler)yadda yadda(/spoiler)
And there it is.
He’s dead, Jim. Well, he is Jim. And he’s dead.
Man, I still haven’t recovered from Farley’s death. I guess I’m kinda glad I don’t read FBFW any more.
I hadn’t seen Funky Winkerbean in years (the Chicago Tribune, which I preferred to the Sun-Times, didn’t carry it, but I recently subscribed to the Raleigh News & Observer, which does) and had no idea what was going on. The Lisa Moore storyline was hard for me, especially after she was bedbound and started having the “dream encounters”, since my late wife had spent her last few months under home hospice care with Parkinson’s dementia.
“Reality” comics are getting too depressing.
FBOFW is really pissing me off. The line we were fed was that in September the characters would stop aging and the “moving forward through time” storylines would be replaced with “hybrid” strips where Michael tells his kids stories from his childhood, and those stories are told through 30-year old strips that Johnston has blown the dust off of and is reusing. Here’s a good example of the hybrid strip. Now I, as a long time fan, think the hybrid strips are utter crap.
But that’s the deal, so far as the readers were told. The current storyline halts; no one ages or dies, and we go back to re-treading old material. So WTF is this? Is she killing off Jim, as she should have done a year or more ago? Or is she just milking his pitiful condition for another mini-drama that won’t be resolved, another opportunity to bludgeon the readers with the fact that being a stroke victim sucks? Either way, I wish Johnston would just decide WTF she wants to do and quit yanking the readers around.
Did you read about her divorce? Evidently the reason she was going to the hybrid strips was so she’d have more time to spend with her husband and as soon as she does, he hits her up for a divorce. In interviews since then, shes’ said she may spend more time on the strip.
I know way too much about this considering I really can’t stand any of the characters.
You should’ve left off the comma in that first sentence. 
He definitely looks dead. I’ve been staring at the strip for 5 minutes and he hasn’t even breathed. Of course, neither has anybody else…
Oh my god! They’re all dead!
Nahh, I can see their eyes blinking.
NO! Really? That’s too bad. But it explains some of this, anyway. Off to Google . . . .
FBOFW used to be my favorite comic, after Peanuts, Bloom County, and Calvin and Hobbes went away. But now I’m beginning to agree with Jodi. I hated the idea that the characters would stop aging and gaining experience, that’s why I liked the damn strip in the first place.
And now I learn that these hybrid strips aren’t even original, but recycled? Sheesh. I’m going to give it another three months or so, maybe less, and if it doesn’t improve I’m done with it. I think I’ll also leave that feedback at the website, not that I think Lynn would actually care anymore.
The creepy thing is that I was going to make that same joke, but I just stared at that comic for a couple minutes and nobody’s blinking! The hell…?