"Friday’s Funky Winkerbean generated an angry response in two communities that ran Tom Batiuk’s feature. The Columbus Ledger-Enquirer (GA) received a call from an Army staff sergeant from Fort Benning and the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner (AK) received a call from an offended parent over the depiction of Funky Winkerbean’s brother being blown up from an I.E.D (improvised explosive device). The comic’s earlier installments, Monday through Thursday, showed Funky’s brother serving in Iraq on what looked like a foot patrol with Friday’s depiction of the IED going off. It’s not until Saturday’s comic that Friday’s events is placed in the context of a video game that the brother was playing."
