Funky Winkerbean - Lisa's BC

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  • Candyce
    Candyce Member Posts: 65
    edited October 2007

    Joan, I had the same reaction this morning.  I sobbed my heart out.  And here it is a comic strip.

     Candyce

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  • Pharmmom
    Pharmmom Member Posts: 300
    edited October 2007

    Hi,

    I know it was so sad!!!  It was like she didnt want to leave him and she got led away by death or whoever that was.  I felt sickened by it.  I feel so sad today and I know its just a comic strip but it was like she was all of us.

    Barb

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited October 2007

    For some reason, the comic isn't loading on my computer today. I have checked several newspapers.  Anybody else having that problem.  I can't even get to King Comics ... maybe it's overload??

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  • hooptiedoo
    hooptiedoo Member Posts: 100
    edited October 2007

    In addition to Lisa's death in "Funky Winkerbean", Granpa Jim in "For Better or For Worse" has suffered another stroke -- possibly a fatal one. Iris is already debating whether or not it's best to try to keep him alive. I love these characters, and can't believe how sad these storylines are. I also can't believe how I'm reacting to them! It really does feel like it's happening to family members!

    I think it's interesting that the cartoonists for each strip is taking the strip to an entirely different level. After Lisa's death, Tom Batiuk is going to jump the strip 10 years into the future, while Lynn Johnston is returning to her earliest strips, when Elly and John were young and their kids were small. Her characters are going to stop aging, and she'll give occasional updates on them.

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited October 2007

    This was so sad and so true ...

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  • Shirlann
    Shirlann Member Posts: 3,302
    edited October 2007

    Hi gals, the vision loss is usually due to brain mets, and doesn't always happen.

    The guy in the tux with the mask looks just like the "Phantom of the Opera"?  Boy, I will need an explanation of that one.

    Yeah, I felt bad too, I wish Les could have heard her say, "I love you".

    Sighh, hugs, Shirlann

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited October 2007

    Aww, now my comic doesn't show up.

    It was from September ... when Les asked the nurse what the 'last thing to go' was going to be (her organs were shutting down) and she said, "Love." ...

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  • ADK
    ADK Member Posts: 2,259
    edited October 2007

    Well, it moved on so fast - today's strip is in the future with Les on the couch at a psychartrist's office talking about the aftermath of Lisa's death.

    Roctobermom - I copy the link from the fourth posting on this thread (Bonny1963) and put it in my address line and click go - it takes me to the Seattle newspaper and the strip from the 25th, but you can click on the date and get the more current strip.

    Hope this works for you. 

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  • Sandra1957
    Sandra1957 Member Posts: 1,701
    edited October 2007

    Okay, so the Phantom of the Opera thing is creeping me out.  I listened to my Phantom cd to get me through my dx and bilateral.  The Phantom was the BC taunting, teasing, and showing up at the gravesite.  Raul was my DH, who was my rock through those tough months.  Maybe the author read my post last summer when  I shared it here.  Too ironic for me.

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  • Pharmmom
    Pharmmom Member Posts: 300
    edited October 2007

    Hi,

    Yes I had to read it twice to "get" that it was Les.  How old would he be now?   In his 40's?  I thought Lisa was around 33 or so?  It was so devastating to think that its ten years and Les is lying on that couch talking like the whole thing happened yesterday.  So so sad.

    Barb

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  • NoH8
    NoH8 Member Posts: 2,726
    edited October 2007

    I agree Barb--I really hoped that if Les needed professional help to deal with Lisa's death, he wouldn't have waited 10 years. I feel a bit gyped that when lisa died, that was the end of the story-- the next day is 10 years later.

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited October 2007

    I at least thought they'd show her funeral and what the family had to deal with for a bit before Moving On.

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited October 2007

    This comic strip was so hard to read and so scary for us. I hope our last moments are not near. I can not handle living Lisa's story and leaving a 5 year old behind. My daughter is 6 so I cry for myself and all of us.

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  • hooptiedoo
    hooptiedoo Member Posts: 100
    edited October 2007

    I don't believe this. I actually got through Lisa's death quite well, and here I am today blubbering because after just 10 years, Les looks so old, tired and heartbroken and is still needing to see a therapist. I can't help but think about what my death would do to my husband.

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  • Pharmmom
    Pharmmom Member Posts: 300
    edited October 2007

    Hi,

    I was thinking maybe they would deal with her funeral etc in flashbacks??  Maybe in Les's therapy sessions?  I thought it was really abrupt also.  They never even addressed the 5 year old.  They had her feeling upset that her mom had to sleep by herself when hospice had set her up.  Then that was it.  You never see the child dealing with it. 

    Barb

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  • NoH8
    NoH8 Member Posts: 2,726
    edited October 2007

    Has anyone gotten the book Lisa's story: the other shoe? It was due out last week. Barnes and Noble said they'd have to special order it, and I didn't want to buy it, just read it so I'll have to look elsewhere.

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  • Pharmmom
    Pharmmom Member Posts: 300
    edited October 2007

    I ordered the book.  I have not received word on it being sent to me yet though. 

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  • Jodist
    Jodist Member Posts: 1
    edited October 2007

    I wish I knew about this website awhile ago. I have been ranting and raving about this topic for some time now. I am sure that all of you can relate to how devastating Lisa's dying and death has been. As a breast cancer survivor, reading this comic everyday has been very unsettling and upsetting. Tom Battuck formed a website in Lisa's name which is a very positive step. We can only hope that are comics can now be funny and maybe take our minds off the everpresent cancer issues in our lives.

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  • NoH8
    NoH8 Member Posts: 2,726
    edited October 2007

    I appreciate comic that can be serious and well as funny. I think

    Batiuk is a genius, artistically speaking, he's done storylines about alcoholism, suicide and other serious issues. Did you read cancer vixen? It's also a breast cancer story told in comic book style, the difference is that the woman who wrote it chronicled her experiences with breast cancer.

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  • Fitztwins
    Fitztwins Member Posts: 7,969
    edited October 2007

    I just went back and read all of the comics. It was hard. Well done. Sucks.

    Good-bye Lisa.

    Janis

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  • mke
    mke Member Posts: 584
    edited October 2007

    You know I never once cried through this second BC, not even came close to it.  It got bad, taxol nearly did me in (literally - I had a DNR order on my chart), but I never felt like crying.

    This comic brought tears to my eyes, and I'm trying to think of why.

    I don't think it's that I was in denial before, and I've been around enough people dying of cancer that it wasn't any news to me how it would be.  I didn't cry about any of their deaths, so why over a comic?  My only theory is that it represents all death and loss.

    And yes I thought of the Phantom of the Opera too.

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  • Bancroft
    Bancroft Member Posts: 37
    edited October 2007

    i agree.  It touched me deeply. I cried and cried.

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  • NoH8
    NoH8 Member Posts: 2,726
    edited October 2007

    64barb, please give us your review of the book when you get it!

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited October 2007

    Les is revealing what happened after Lisa died ... her funeral where he started to read that poem ... so sad.  Today they showed the guest book and photos all on a  bulletin board.  Even though she was a cartoon character, you know  what it feels like to lose a friend.

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  • SandyInNJ63
    SandyInNJ63 Member Posts: 104
    edited October 2007

    Did anyone understand the one today?  There's an open box or something in the background where he's sitting crying in the rain, next it shows ... i'm not sure what really.  I'm not getting what todays strip was trying to say.

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  • Member_of_the_Club
    Member_of_the_Club Member Posts: 3,646
    edited October 2007

    It;s a flashback. Lisa had asked him to spread her ashes in Central Park, and the box in the background is the empty urn.

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  • NoH8
    NoH8 Member Posts: 2,726
    edited October 2007

    Did les infer that he lost her ashes at the airport yesterday? That was what I thought.

    I guess we can read into the comic what we want. I wondered if he was alone in spreading the ashes or if he metaphorically just felt alone.

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  • Pharmmom
    Pharmmom Member Posts: 300
    edited October 2007

    No I think he was saying that nobody bothered him about the ashes in the airport.  Like he was relieved about it.  I didnt know where he was with the empty box.  I now know Central Park.  When did she mention wanting to be in Central Park? 

    Barb (formerly 64barb)

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  • SandyInNJ63
    SandyInNJ63 Member Posts: 104
    edited October 2007

    Ohhh...thanks.  I must have missed the one about Central Park.

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  • Shirlann
    Shirlann Member Posts: 3,302
    edited October 2007

    Hi gals, and espcially our precious Joan, the loss of sight could be brain mets.  Pleasant thought.

    Sheesh, Shirlann

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