# Incest in Funky Winkerbean
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/incest-in-funky-winkerbean/400516
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [April 17, 2007, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/incest-in-funky-winkerbean/400516 "2007-04-17T19:40:53Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@gazpacho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gazpacho)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2007, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/incest-in-funky-winkerbean/400516/1 "2007-04-17T19:40:53Z")
Has anybody been following Funky Winkerbean lately? I am glad they final left the cancer ward for a while for an upbeat exploration of incest. What happened to air guitar and space invaders?
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### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2007, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/incest-in-funky-winkerbean/400516/2 "2007-04-17T19:50:18Z")
This has come a long way since I quit reading it about a hundred years ago.
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### Author:  [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2007, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/incest-in-funky-winkerbean/400516/3 "2007-04-17T19:50:57Z")
Incest? Since when are those two characters related to one another at all, let alone closely enough to be considered incest? The boy, Darin, is (biologically) the son of Lisa Moore and some guy whose name I forget, but not Jessica’s father. The girl is Jessica Darling, daughter of murdered newscaster John Darling and, presumably, his wife.
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### Author:  [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2007, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/incest-in-funky-winkerbean/400516/4 "2007-04-17T19:51:02Z")
Are you Sure about the incest angle? They only mentioned the girl talking about her father this morning. (Please tell me you didn’t just spoil the coming un-published plot-line…)
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### Author:  [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2007, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/incest-in-funky-winkerbean/400516/5 "2007-04-17T20:01:31Z")
[I was wondering what this was all about.](http://www.shortpacked.com/')
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### Author:  [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2007, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/incest-in-funky-winkerbean/400516/6 "2007-04-17T20:08:35Z")
Er, I don’t think that was the link you meant, **Miller**? It needs correcting at the least, but I can’t see why you’d link what the corrected link pulls up? 😕
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### Author:  [@Rube\_E.Tewesday](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rube_E.Tewesday)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2007, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/incest-in-funky-winkerbean/400516/7 "2007-04-17T20:10:41Z")
OK, is this the same strip I used to read occasionally about 20 years ago, at which time it was about a kid in a high school band? Or have I totally mixed up names?
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### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2007, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/incest-in-funky-winkerbean/400516/8 "2007-04-17T20:17:50Z")
[QUOTE=Rube E. Tewesday]
OK, is this the same strip I used to read occasionally about 20 years ago, at which time it was about a kid in a high school band?
[/QUOTE]
Yeah, me, too. It’s like the author started or quit using some serious chemicals, or something.
🙂
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### Author:  [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2007, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/incest-in-funky-winkerbean/400516/9 "2007-04-17T20:19:23Z")
> **[Shortpacked! - Blog](https://www.shortpacked.com)**
>
> Shortpacked! is a webcomic about people who work in a toy store and tell jokes about Batman.
For more information, see [Funky Winkerbean – The Comics Curmudgeon](http://joshreads.com/?cat=64)
Cancer cancer.
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### Author:  [@gazpacho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gazpacho)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2007, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/incest-in-funky-winkerbean/400516/10 "2007-04-17T20:21:34Z")
I have no knowledge of anything in Funky Winkerbean beyond the comics published in the San Diego papers. So I have not spoiled anything.
I am open to other interpretations of the last week of comics. other interpretations are: in spoiler boxes so as not to upset the Count.
That Darin’s father is the one who murdered John Darling. A quick online search does not reveal the murderer just that Les solved the murder and wrote a book about it. Which is probably even more depressing than the incest angle.
Miller’s link is to a web toon that thinks as I do that this points to incest. I will note that that is what got me thinking about this a incest and I can’t see anything else except as noted above.
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### Author:  [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2007, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/incest-in-funky-winkerbean/400516/11 "2007-04-17T20:29:20Z")
Thanks for fixing my link, **E-Sabbath**.
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### Author:  [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2007, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/incest-in-funky-winkerbean/400516/12 "2007-04-17T23:48:31Z")
Yeah, Funky has definitely taken a turn for the DARK. It’s one of Comics Curmudgeon’s perennial favorites to poke fun at. Cancer, deafness, death, despair, gloom, agony…it’s a far cry from the proto-_Zits_ it originally was way back in the day.
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### Author:  [@pesch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pesch)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2007, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/incest-in-funky-winkerbean/400516/13 "2007-04-18T03:18:42Z")
It’s not just that the stories are dark, it’s that they’re dark \all the friggin’ time.\
The nadir was reached when Harry, the band director, was bumped upstairs because he became too deaf to lead the band anymore, leaving the one-armed girl to take over. (Leading one of the Curmudgeonites to wonder how she was going to conduct with only one arm).
Even FW’s minor moments of happiness can’t escape the cruel hand of fate.
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### Author:  [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2007, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/incest-in-funky-winkerbean/400516/14 "2007-04-18T12:33:37Z")
[QUOTE=jayjay]
Cancer, deafness, death, despair, gloom, agony…
[/QUOTE]
If it weren’t fer bad luck
I’d have no luck at all…
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### Author:  [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2007, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/incest-in-funky-winkerbean/400516/15 "2007-04-18T13:28:32Z")
[QUOTE=Zabali\_Clawbane]
Er, I don’t think that was the link you meant, **Miller**? It needs correcting at the least, but I can’t see why you’d link what the corrected link pulls up? 😕
[/QUOTE]
Check the strip for the previous day
> **[Shortpacked! - Blog -](https://www.shortpacked.com/d/20070416.html)**
>
> Shortpacked! is a webcomic about people who work in a toy store and tell jokes about Batman.
I am totally unfamiliar with Funky Winkerbean. Is the strip available online anywhere?
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### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2007, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/incest-in-funky-winkerbean/400516/16 "2007-04-18T13:48:44Z")
[QUOTE=Peter Morris]
I am totally unfamiliar with Funky Winkerbean. Is the strip available online anywhere?
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[dailyink.com](http://dailyink.com) has it, but it costs money. 🙂
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### Author:  [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2007, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/incest-in-funky-winkerbean/400516/17 "2007-04-18T13:58:36Z")
It seems to be up to date [here](http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/comics/Funky_Winkerbean.dtl). And free.
Edit: But I don’t seem to be able to see any but today’s (or whatever day that is). Sorry.
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### Author:  [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2007, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/incest-in-funky-winkerbean/400516/18 "2007-04-18T13:58:47Z")
[QUOTE=carnivorousplant]
[dailyink.com](http://dailyink.com) has it, but it costs money. 🙂
[/QUOTE]
It better! So how much are they willing to pay me to read it? 😉
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### Author:  [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2007, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/incest-in-funky-winkerbean/400516/19 "2007-04-18T15:22:51Z")
[Seattle Post-Intelligencer](http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/fun/funky.asp?date=20070418) goes back 30 days. Not that it makes anything any clearer. The convoluted, agonized plotlines would put most soap operas to shame.
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### Author:  [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2007, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/incest-in-funky-winkerbean/400516/20 "2007-04-19T15:22:33Z")
I am pissed at you people. Now I have to see where this is going. It is certainly not getting [funny.](http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/fun/funky.asp?date=20070419)
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