Force Lightning! I should’ve known:
A: When “The Phantom” isn’t even in the strip!
Panel 1 of the 1 January 2010 Funky Winkerbean was Les kissing Lisa — and she was normal colored, not all zombie rotten* and skeletal, like you’d expect her to be after 10 years. (Yes, Les is effed in the head.) The second panel was him gazing out at the moon while two desperate women had wished to be his New Year’s snogging buddy. (Yes, they’re effed in the head, too.)
Still, if Les were by the window, you think it could’ve been a little more dramatic…
Since Les is apparently a Time Lord and can zip back and forth (e.g., kissing what appears to be a living, breathing Lisa), maybe he’s not at a New Year’s Eve party at all! Maybe he’s in sunny California, at the most-talked-about wedding of the year in Santa Royale!
* Major mashup news! What the world needs is more mashups, and CC’s faithful curminion Joe Blevins is doing a continuing series based on Ziggy the Zombie = Zomby! As you might imagine, it’s a lot funnier than the original: http://d2rights.blogspot.com/search/label/Zomby
Mashing my own mashup? If it makes it better, you bet!
And Jym had this great idea of including a certain, whacked-out religious nut…
…when everyone re-evaluates their lives and actions, and resolves to improve themselves.
I mean, just listen to Jill’s regret in Panel 1, hurting her BFF Adrian’s feelings and nearly ruining the rehearsal dinner. (Yes, this panel is untouched…just like the art in Panel 2, when a remorseful Jill makes her intentions to set things to right is known.)
Sequitur, one of The Comics Curmudgeon’s faithful minions, did an elegant mashup just by putting a big, bloody knife in Jill’s fist. (I’ll link it if he gives me permission.) I’d completely missed that opportunity…but not for long!
No, I mean her actual butt — no one in NYC owns a car, do they?
Anyway, looks like Lu Ann’s been taking blistering expression lessons from Margo!
Meanwhile, elsewhere, as the party starts running full-tilt:
Nope! Christmas is for me! MINE MINE MINE!
And for good reason:
Lisa was portrayed in full color, not “Force Ghost” blue…what was I supposed to think?!
…like that old tradition, “Tamales de Murcielagos“! Happy Holidays, folks!
