Comments on: Funky Winkerbean depiction of IED blowing up american soldier generates angry response

By: Mike Edge

Mike Edge — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 21:06:23 +0000

I want to know where Wally went and how Becky ended up with John the comic book store owner.

By: Dean Bailey

Dean Bailey — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 08:47:38 +0000

I’m confused….are you going to stay in the future? I want to know what the characters are doing in the present day. This jump into the future is losing my interest.

By: FunkyFan

FunkyFan — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 21:28:11 +0000

Wally is not Funky’s brother, they are cousins.

By: David

David — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 00:40:29 +0000

Good heavens that comic is slowly paced. It recently took a week just for a character to open a letter!

By: Debbie

Debbie — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 03:03:21 +0000

Please return Funky Winkerbean to your newspaper, I miss it!

By: Sharon

Sharon — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 18:09:57 +0000

I chose to view the strip as Wally putting his OWN face on the soldier in the “game.” Some people are too literal — it wasn’t what was going on on the view/screen, it was Wally placing himself into the situation. Y’all remember “imagination?” Well, if most guys didn’t do just that when playing video games, there wouldn’t be half the attraction for games associated with sex, violence and war. Assigning yourself the role in RPGs and video games, I’m told is more than half the fun.

By: Rich

Rich — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 18:29:55 +0000

It seems that Tom Batiuk was quite clear about what he was trying to accomplish and handled the flap well. It also seems clear that those complaining overreacted and are probably looking for reasons to complain. I’m guessing the news overreacted too by reporting that there were 2 complaints … 2? Big deal … I bet Peanuts probably gets 2 complaints a day somewhere in the country. Slow news day maybe.

By: Eric Keeton

Eric Keeton — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 18:02:02 +0000

Maybe it’s time for Fort Benning Staff Sgt. James G. Clanton to go AWOL.. if a comic strip is a little to real for him, I can’t imagine how he’d react to reality.
I imagine he complains to the auto industry when he hears a car backfire.
A special Funky Winkerbean should be drawn just for him and others like him. The characters will just stare out and do nothing interactive. The discription would be something along the lines of ‘A special release with no commentary, place your own imagination here’
Once censorship succeeds, imagination will be next.

By: Chris Shipton

Chris Shipton — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 13:41:57 +0000

Reading out of context i thought ‘ooh thats quite daring’. Reading it in context its more like a cop out.

By: Mike Peterson

Mike Peterson — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 11:04:05 +0000

I don’t know nothin’ about freedom of expression. I just want to know where you get that videogame that puts your own face in the graphics and prints your name across your helmet. (I guess there might be games that suddenly switch to another person’s POV to show things like the hand on the cell phone detonator, though it would make the games hard to play.)

Anyway, I blame myself for not being up to date. If I’d known they had games that could do that, I wouldn’t have felt this was such a totally bogus “surprise twist.”