Funky Winkerbean, 5/9/22

Happy Monday, everybody, Funky Winkerbean is starting up the week with a funeral, obviously. I'm pretty sure Mary Sue isn't someone we've actually met before in this strip, and Funky and Les want to make it clear that they don't actually know her well or care that much about her, they just think it's an important Funkyverse ritual to stop by funerals and acknowledge that everyone's dying all the time, just some of us a little sooner than others. "Mary Sue" is of course also a derogatory term for an idealized authorial self-insert character in fanfiction, and it absolutely tracks that an idealized self-insert character in Funkyverse fan fiction would be someone who dies off-panel in order to give the sad sack main characters the chance to talk about how the whole world is falling apart, really.

Crankshaft, 5/9/22