Previous >>151612866Today will cover 1996. Last time, Lisa went back to Seattle but Les went to visit her over spring break and in turn she came back to Westview for the prom. He decided that he wanted to propose to her but unfortunately for him, events would foul things up. First, the school's literary magazine came under fire from Roberta Blackburn for a poem she felt was inappropriate for a school publication. At the same time his student Susan Smith had developed a crush on Les and, in jealousy, destroyed the tape he'd intended to send to Lisa with his proposal and Lisa, thinking Les didn't care, left for Europe. But out of guilt for her actions she attempted suicide and while recovering in the hospital, admitted what she'd done to Les.This set off a whirlwind summer for Les as he crisscrossed Europe trying to find Lisa with the two of them finally reuniting in Paris. With Les and Lisa now engaged and Sadie Summers welcoming Susan back to school, things seemed to be settling down.
1996 starts with the introduction of Cliff the Security Guard. He'll stick around for a while but will never be anything more than a minor character. I guess because even Batiuk got bored of his shtick pretty fast.Also another big change, the Sundays are now in color.
>tomboy is stupidWay to be a stereotype, Mickey.
Baldy BalderbeanAlso, I think this is the first or one of the first instances of Wally calling Funky his uncle. I said it before but it'll later be explained away as Wally doing it to mess with his uncle but most of the time it comes up when talking to other people. I think Batiuk just straight up forgot that they were supposed to be cousins.
RIP Funky Mullet, 1992-1996But while Funky's lost the mullet he's gained a girlfriend as this is where his relationship with Cindy starts.
And of course we have some retconning here since it conveniently leaves out that he only cared about the novelty of the whole thing, dumped Cindy, and then she called him a fag.
This guy is Black Lightning creator Tony Isabella who, as Batiuk's long time friend and neighbor, will show up a few times in the strip.Anyone know what issue of Wonder Woman that's supposed to be? The X-Men one was easier for me to identify but I don't know shit about Wonder Woman.
The Clinton connection comes through again. This isn't the last time he'll be used to save the day either.
Oh, the other girl actually has a name.
>>151627396It's one by Byrne, I'll have to check.
Bump
>>151627619I should have mentioned that another outdated hairstyle has gone to the grave and only Cindy's remains.
>>151627396>>151627608Here it ishttps://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Wonder_Woman_Vol_2_110Wonder Woman #110It's cover dated June 1996 which means it was actually released May 1996, I thinkBatiuk also has a note in the first panel saying "thanks to John & Tony"
>>151627643Oh no wait, it was released April 1996https://www.comics.org/issue/58903/
>>151627643So it is. Are the Byrne and Messner-Loebs runs worth reading at all? As I said, I've never been a Wonder Woman person.
You know, Les and Linda honestly have way better chemistry as characters than Les and Lisa. Their rapport feels a lot more natural while Les and Lisa feel like it's Batiuk just implementing what he sees cutesy couples in movies and sitcoms do. Also because current Lisa is so completely divergent from her high school self in every conceivable way and we never saw the transformation.
>>151627709The weird thing is that they keep saying reception but the actual wedding itself happens in Montoni's, not just the reception. Like he was mixing two things up.
>>151627716I feel like I should have pointed this out too. But much like living in the apartment above Montoni's is seemingly a required tradition for all Les's and Funky's in the strip, waitressing at Montoni's will seemingly be a required tradition for young women. We have Lisa and have already seen Mickey but Rachel, Sadie, Becky and Mindy will all have their turns too.
Introduction, at least in Funky, of Wade Wallace. I don't remember him in any of the older strips when John Darling was still in the comic so he might have been a John Darling character. Either way, he's going to be a regular throughout Act II.
>>151627675Byrne has its moments but is just kind of mid though probably not near as bad as some other people's Wonder Woman runs. How much you like or hate it also depends on how you feel about him retconning stuff like trying to fix Etrigan because he didn't like the Alan Grant/Garth Ennis stuff or getting rid of the rhyming thing that Moore added during Swamp ThingI haven't read through the Messner-Loebs run yet but I did think the few issues I read were okay.
Interesting bit of trivia, the comic that appears in this strip is actually one that Batiuk made whe he was a kid and he decided to use it here. Also notable in that it contains the first mention of Starbuck Jones, a typical Flash Gordon/Buck Rogers/Adam Strange style pulp sci-fi hero that will become a major part of Funky in the 2010s.
And here we go with another big dramatic story. Also, remember how I said Batiuk will do a lot of bitching about people bitching about the subject matter of his strip? Well here's a prime example.
>>151627803>>151627828I remembered reading through this years ago It's funny seeing Funky legitimately angry/dismissive of Wade back then when you know years from now Wade is basically gonna be his Alcoholics Anonymous sponsor all the way to Act 3
Post office goes kaboom.Batiuk, now working with his long buffer, had actually written this the previous year in response to the Oklahoma City Bombing and the prevelance of what he saw as angry rhetoric that led to it. But in a case of bad timing, the publication of this came only a few days after the Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta.
>>151627972>>151627984Something occurred to me, I don't recall the mystery of this getting resolved, but at the time I was only reading from whatever I could find from Google Newspaper archives and Comics Kingdom stuff, so I don't know if there was anything between late 1996 to mid-1998 that ever resolved it. Did it ever?
The Susan story, if a bit after school specialy, was still fairly good. This story is where I feel the dramatic stories start to become more absurd.
>>151628008>Did it ever?Nope, this is the end of the story and that's it. We never learn who bombed the post office and it's never really brought up again aside from Lisa still recovering for a bit. You'd think the FBI would have been hunting the guy down and an act of domestic terrorism would have been a big deal in universe.But nah, I guess not. Which highlights a problem with Batiuk's writing that'll only get worse. A lot of times, things are only important in the immediate moment for the surprise factor and once they've done that they're forgotten about as he moves on to other things. It's sort of why he developed a (not unwarranted IMO) reputation for using shock value as a crutch.
Also we get into another issue: the massive tonal whiplash. Lisa gets blown up and we spend a month with Les fretting in a hospital only to smash cut to Dinkle doing typical Dinkle stuff.
This would have been when Art Modell moved the Cleveland Browns to Baltimore.
>Remember kids, tobacco is wacko!Thanks William S. Batiuk.
>>151628330Damn that's kind of sad
Remember the deal with Fred and Ann's wedding? Well yeah, Batiuk is just going to go to the well again for Les and Lisa's. Except this time he's going to go all the way in because the bit with Susan is also taken from is IRL wedding where his landlord's dad was a judge and able to expedite the process. Just in case you had any doubts that the self-insert baton hadn't been passed from Fred to Les by this point.
Speaking of Ann, these strips constitute some of her few Act II appearances. Baiuk will run this kind of joke with Lisa and Darin until 2007 when he decides to put an end to it for obvious reasons.
Another major change as Stropp is fired and Bull becomes the new football coach, a position he'll hold for a long, long time until circumstances much later on change that.
And that does it for Coach Stropp. He'll get a couple more small appearances and then pass away off panel in 2011 but really, this is the end of his time as a real character in the strip. Like I said before, I think overall he's my favorite.
>>151627056>the Sundays are now in color.NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOI hate when a perfectly working black and white design is vomited on with ugly unnecessary colors
One of Coach's two post-firing appearances.
>>151628448damn, they have done him dirty. I feel bad for this guy, after the heart attack he was the butt of too many jokes to be thrown to hr wolves like this.
And with this, Funky has completed his rise from jobless to co-owner of Montoni's, a position he'll hold for the rest of the series. At least I think he will. I'm still unsure if he has full ownership of Montoni's in Act III or if he still just co-owns it with Tony, even though Tony is retired from otherwise running it.
>>151627052i ate ur girlfriends funky winkerbean lmao get owned faget
>>151628642I would but being the world's biggest loser (more than even Les) was basically always his joke so him going out a winner would just seem odd.Bull's going to do a lot better anyway.
That's another year in the can.Next time will be 1997. Things continue looking up for Funky as his relationship with Cindy gets more serious. Les, meanwhile, solves the murder of John Darling and Wally falls in love when he begins dating Becky Blackburn.
Posting the two strips that weren't in the 1995 storytime. I'm slightly behind so I wasn't able to do anything before the last thread archived.
These aren't super critical or anything but I'm a bit of a completionist about these things so might as well post them since I went through the trouble to find them.Also assuming these weren't addressed in this thread since I haven't read it yet. Excited about the new color strips
>>151629101funky is a good friend.
>>151629101I didn't realize that I had missed that one too.
>>151627056>the Sundays are now in colorMore like Fancy Winkerbean.
>>151627328RIP. Truly, the 90s are on their way out.
>>151627449Clinton is practically a supporting cast member at this point.
Okay, I've honestly been LOVING this. It's already become one of my favorite comics. I''d even say that for 84-92, the comic rivals the quality of even Peanuts, Calvin & Hobbes and 90s Garfield. Shame it never went too far.Thanks, OP. Also question: do you prefer Funky or FBoFW?
>>151628477KINO
>>151630236>do you prefer Funky or FBoFWI think Funky has higher highs, usually in regards to jokes, but lower lows. Batiuk is definitely funnier than Lynn but I think Lynn is a far better storyteller.I might pick Foob simply for that reason. It's generally not pulling out the headscratching stories that Funky did and it's really only in its last few years where it gets really bad. It's not the most exciting comic ever but Lynn did a way better job of making it feel like an ongoing and coherent story than Batiuk did with Funky. That and I have more sentimental attachment to it because it was in my local paper and Funky wasn't. Actually, FBoFW might have been the only non-gag strip in my paper so for that reason it was always the one I gravitated to.I'd say Funky is more memorable just because it goes into more oddball places that make you scratch your head or heaps on the melodrama in a cartoonish way. I think if he had ended it in 1992 or even 2007, Funky's reputation would have likely fared better but it has an entire 15 years after that point and was arguably going down hill earlier than that. I don't regret having read it and I don't outright hate it but after a point it's hard to argue that it's still anything resembling good. But the failings at least keep it interesting enough to dissect.
>>151627430>Bob's Burgers intro plays
>>151628499You didn't need to do that fourth strip, Batuik.
>>151628104>Nope, this is the end of the story and that's it.Deus Ex Bombica
>>151627727>CAK is Akron airport's real IATA codeFucking kek, I don't know if that slang carries across the Atlantic but here in bongland calling something "cack" is a less offensive form of saying it's "shit".
>>151628132>Make a storyline about Lisa getting caught in an explosion>The very first strip after that storyline brings back the "Sex Symbol Harry Dinkle" coverWhat did Batiuk mean by this?
>>151628274Wally is way cooler than Funky>>151628385the lady in the first strip looks like she could be Susan's mom>>151628592no idea what's going on here. did her dad die or something, or is she talking about the kid? John Darling? tbf i've only been reading the strips that look interesting to me>>151630236>It's already become one of my favorite comicswoah, a genuine funky fanfavorite character?
>>151627894Looking like he does, I can't be the only one who reads Crazy with George Carlin's voice, can I?
>>151632386She's talking about Darin. She only knows she gave her kid up for adoption but not who adopted him so doesn't know she's already met him.>>151632408He sounds like Tommy Chong to me.
>>151628104>We never learn who bombed the post officeThere's a crime to be solved, /co/. Name your suspects and reasoning. I say Sadie did it to get rid of her credit card statements.
>>151631031Nice way of looking at it. Personally I couldn't decide. Yeah, Funky gets rather...funky...once John Byrne joined the comic, but it's not often when a comic strip has not just a golden, but a DIAMOND age. I definitely agree though For Better or For Worse did a better job growing the cast up and doing drama without it being too soapy.>>151632386Either Act I Cindy or Act II Funky. Cindy is not only pretty funny but I like that she's still, like a PERSON. Not your stereotypical spoiled mean popular girl. Funky has so far greatly improved, he has some snark be he's matured more, and he's such an absolute bro.
>>151632408He's boring since the time skip. Dinkle and Sadie can't keep holding this comic up forever.>>151632523No one knows who did it, but Crankshaft helped. He thought the bomb was just a lost package that someone had left behind on the bus. So he drove by the post office and threw it out the window near there; nobody knows how it got inside the building.Crankshaft later heard about the bombing but didn't make the connection between himself and the incident, so he still made dark jokes about the incident to himself in his head whenever he was driving past the rubble.
>>151632523It's pretty obvious who it was. Going postal was in the news at the time, he would have had easy access to the building, and he's named Crazy Harry. >>151632872The idea of that bombing being referenced in Crankshaft is hilarious to me. I can't shake the mental image of two firefighters looking at the rubble and making jokes about Ed's backyard BBQs,
>>151627396Tony is a girl now, that would have been a great storyline
>>151627675Messner Loeb's run is pretty good but the Byrne run is dogshit city, with Byrne raping Donna Troy and Etrigan and Hippolyta beyond all repair and inflicting Cassie Sandsmark on humanity. The only fucking redeeming thing about the Byrne run is his rehabilitation of Artemis into being a fan favorite as Messner Loeb always intended her to be a pathetic grim and gritty would be usurper WW who everyone treated like a joke.
>>151631031I never read FW but reading these threads, it's heads and shoulders above FBOW.
>>151632357Harry Dinkle sells papers
>>151628347>Marriage anniversary on halloweenI hate that
>>151628469This is really sad :(
>>151633946I feel that the Rolanda stuff from the final reunion was alluding to that. Given how close Batiuk and Isabella are I assume he knew well before the public did.
>>151627984>all those broken windowsLisa and whoever else in that post office are fucking dead
>>151635248Lisa must live to suffer another day. And also make Les suffer into the bargain, it's a Funky act two-fer.
>>151628132can't sink the Dink, baby.
>>151628132issue? I see it more as a feature.
>>151628173punished Lisa
>>151628416this is the most tacky wedding I've ever seen.
>>151635248Who cares? Les is crying.
>>151627558will the band travel to other countries in the future?
>>151632523it was actually an unfortunate accident. the post office employee opened a tightly-packed box of dinkle fan letters without properly de-pressurizing it first.
>>151632523No way it wasn't the guy on the radio. You can't tell me a guy who wants to *ahem* >>151627972>Point, click and delete every loser that stands in our wayISN'T FUCKED IN THE HEAD.
>>151627200>Gone with the Woodwind
>>151628477Bitter sweet
>>151627056Isn't this just that retired teacher (I forget his name now) but with a uniform?
Did the cancer cancerverse start? I''m still reading early threads
>>151634691Isabella is not a real tranny, but a tired woke asshole who explicitly turned fag to try and bully DC Comics into getting him new work, since he repeatedly gets fired from the company ever decade after he bullies DC into letting him write Black Lightning because Isabella is eternally butt hurt that right wing chud Mike Varr is rightfully considered Black Lightning's real daddy due to people only knowing and caring about the character when he's with the Outsiders
Bumpy Stinklebean
>>151627070>Peanut butter and Jelly stuffed crustHonestly that sounds like something they'd do nowadays.
>>151637918No, they're completely different characters. Bill had hair for one thing.
>>151639107Guess I'm the one going senile
>>151627080kek
>>151627080But then what did they think of the 90s cartoon based on the movie vs the original theatrical cartoons
Now it's 1997
>>151640175I see he's reading Astro City #3, from the 1995 miniseries
This won't be the last time that New York will be a prominent location in the strip so you'll see the Les + Lisa writing called back to quite a bit.
Brenda Harpy is back in the strip for the first time in long, long time. This is the point where Batiuk starts incorporatig, or reincorporating, John Darling characers into Funky.
Another significantish debut in Apple Annie or, later, Ann Apple. She's basically just going to be Wise Homeless Lady but wil be important for things that happen with Les.
>>151628251oh yea this was when the oilers moved to Tennessee
Yeah at the time there was a lot of moves. The Browns to Baltimore, Oilers to Tennessee, Raiders to Oakland and Rams to St. Louis.
Oh sure, Wally might be on cloud nine now but little does he know that he's actually started down the long road of misery.When these vertical strips started coming in the middle of weeks I debated just leaving them sideways but ultimately figured that would be kind of stupid, so I'd just have to deal with it.
The first appearance of Le Chat Bleu, Les's schizo-fueled depression tulpa that's merely a hallucination except for the time that it wasn't. It only tries to seduce him this one time though.
There's some chekhov's guns here. Also this John Darling story is going to take up more or less the entire summer.
Wally Herobean
Maybe I just don't know how this stuff works but wouldn't the rent for the upstairs space likely be about what the rent downstairs is? If you're aready strugglig to make money it does't really seem like anything but a lateral move. Of course it's only done to have the downstairs space filled by new characters.
>the murder weaponThis will get one of the weirder resolutions in the strip's final year.
The murderer is revealed.Look, I kind of have a hard time taking this seriously when it's supposed to be a more grounded in reality comic after the timeskip and here Les is being tied up and ranted at by what amounts to a supervillain.
Kind of funny that Lisa and Jan are teaming up considering their kids' futures.
That wraps up the murder of John Darling and it'll soon be on to a very special story with the introduction of Zhang Li and Liu Lin, who will take over the former Komix Korner space.
bumping
>>151641119Don't rub it in Cindy
It's racism. The very special story is racism.
>>151627052>>151627056>>151627091>>151627109I am starting to detect a pattern where Batiuk will introduce a character for a few weeks, and then either drop him off the face of the earth or they'll re-emerge a year later.
Li and Lin basically seem to have really only been brought in for doing this story. They'll hang around until a little before the timeskip but are rarely ever going to be all that important.
>>151641238I think he likes introducing characters to liven things up but if they don't hit with him reasonably quickly, then he just kind of forgets about them or at best gives them a very reduced role. Notice how Sadie hasn't appeared at all this year, for instance?It'll get worse once it gets to Act III and he stops pretending to care about anyone who isn't either a middle-aged or elderly man or associated with Les.
Speaking of characters not catching on, this is the last bit of relevancy that Mickey will ever have.
>>151627155Second strip got a snort out of me.
>>151627162Harry L Dinkle... IN COLOUR
>>151641455that's Hawaiian punch
>>151627200Lil' Dink.
That closes out 1997. Next time is 1998. Les's first book gets released while Funky and Cindy have their wedding.But there's drama around the class of '98's graduation when Susan gets a boyfriend and Wally crashes out. Plus the introduction of the class that will last all the way until the next timeskip in 2007.
>>151641358My birthday strip is really sweet :)
Coach feels too important to just write out of the strip, he’s been there since the beginning right? Won’t be the same without him
>>151627368It's funny how Montoni's went from being a joke to Number One, I feel like there could have been a 'We're number one?' or 'Well there are some benefits to monopolies' gag here.
>>151642009The implication is pretty much always that Funky's the one who actually did it since Tony is a shitty businessman on is own.
>>151641383Audibly kek'd at the pineapple one
>>151641112>got an intimidating dinkle on my birthdayhell yeah
>>151640175Judging from Les' personality, I feel like Lisa was probably in the right here
>>151641653>Funky and Cindy weddingLET'S GOOOOOooooohhhh boy, I'm getting way into this comic.
>>151641358that quarter becomes important later on in the flashback taking place after Act 2 ends but before Act 3 starts
>>151640613wasn't expecting bakeneko to exist in the funkyverse
>>151632299At risk of being a “mean-spirited” poster, I think Batiuk sometimes forgets that that sort of punching bag humor is supposed to actually have humor to it, and instead just has the characters suffer
>>151640708that's not very subtle
>>151640777>>151640790>>151640806>>151640834wally is so fucking cool.
>>151640905>wouldn't the rent for the upstairs space likely be about what the rent downstairs is?Nah, an upstairs commercial space with no storefront would definitely be cheaper. You don't get as much passing trade because going through a single door and up a flight of stairs is less appealing than just walking into a store you can see into. That's why businesses in upstairs units tend to be the kind you make appointments for like barbers or tattooists (or uh, massage parlours) rather than stores people just go in to browse on a whim. John's cutting his rent but realistically, he's probably fucking his business by the fact he'll get less new customers. t. family retail business fag.
>>151642570Nice, I got a Dinkle too
>>151640643>>151640680>>151640708So having never read the John Darling strip, what I'm learning is he was a prick who nobody liked and probably got what was coming to him.
>>151641004>>151641016bizarre. this must be the point of no return.
>>151641077now THIS is drama. hang in there dinkle!
>>151642711He was probably being whiny about minor shit like usual.
>>151641324holy shit they won!
>>151641506montoni just became a philanthropist, huh.
>>151641265that was gay and preachy as fuck. the kids didn't even do any real damage or write any slurs or anything that bad. it could've been way worse for Li and Lin, just saiyan>Li and Lin seem to have really only been brought in for doing this storythis is grosser than anything that happens to them in the comic imo. they're basically Asian uncle toms
>>151641542did they just kill off the rock?
Deft line work on the ballbag
>>151642827me too anon, can't wait for it to come crashing down
>>151643723No, they just cast him in The Smashing Machine
>>151640583>My birthday was during Wally's Prom arc.I guess there's worse days.
>>151643718>Another story that appeared in 1997 was inspired by a completely different source. A Vietnamese couple had moved to our town and opened a restaurant on the site of a former Red Barn. Cathy and I enjoyed stopping in there, and one time while waiting for an order, I read a yellowed newspaper article that was framed on the wall by the door. It told of the young couple’s escape by boat from Vietnam and the harrowing journey they undertook facing pirates and being stranded and abandoned at sea until finally making it to a hoped-for life of freedom in the United States. I started getting some ideas for a story. One of the advantages of getting ahead on the strip like I had at that juncture was I could take the time to let an idea have a longer gestation period. I could keep rolling it over in my mind, examining all of the facets and considering various possibilities until I felt it was ready. And when it was, a young Chinese couple moved into the space next door to Montoni’s and opened a restaurant called the Jade Dragon West. Zhang Li and his wife Liu Lin were political dissidents from Hong Kong who, fearing a crackdown when Great Britain handed Hong Kong back over to China, made the decision to escape to America. They met their good neighbors Tony Montoni and Funky Winkerbean, but soon the couple also experienced the racism that lurks in the American shadows. In the course of telling their story, I made use of a number of elements of the tale I found in the yellowed newspaper clipping (I seriously doubt if that would have happened with Grubhub, and I’m glad that the nascent internet hadn’t grown big enough to ruin that opportunity for me). Go out to dinner . . . come home with a story. Nice when life works that way.
>>151644571>Will you just fuck my daughter already? The tape's rolling!
>>151640440Asimov's old typewriter is in the possession of Seattle's Museum of Pop Culture, as I understand it. I think he stuck with a typewriter all the way up to the end.
>>151641100Even Mr Dinkle gets serious in Part 2
>>151641437So it was HER that caused Forward the Foundation! Get her!
>>151640965Spoiler?
>>151645086Do you mean you want one or no? Because it's honestly one of the goofiest and maybe most screwed up stories in the comic.
>>151628173>Dinkle unplugging the rock and roll hall of fame concert he was invited to play at immediately followed by Lisa dealing with the trauma of surviving a bombingLove the tonal whiplash of act II
Thanks for the dump OPI think this comic has officially jumped the shark.
>>151641265>I was talking about Bull!Again, this sort of thing would work better if he had ever had a track record of bullying anybody besides Les. As is, it just seems like Les refusing to let things go despite Bull being really friendly and supportive towards him throughout their careers at the school.
>>151646288Oh you are going to hate Les then. Bull is probably the nicest actual person in the series.
Bumpy Winkerbean
>>151646288It depends, in the school board's trial against Les, Bull speaks on Les' behalf and said that he'd been bullying Les since kindergarten. so there could be an argument to be made about Les still dealing with his own issues. Which, okay, I guess there was more going on to Act 1 than we thought.The problem is if you read through Act 2 and 3, Bull often helped out Les which is why some of these just come off odd. In Act 2 it's generally okay and you can sidestep the issues that might come up. In Act 3 it felt more like they were on good terms except during Bull's funeral. I think the more I think of it the problem was that in the funeral story, Batiuk wanted to reiterate Les learning that Bull thought highly of Les, again which also doesn't work because Les SHOULD know about the time Bull spoke on his behalf when Les was getting grilled by the school board, among other things that we see in Act 2 and 3
>>151641606That hand position and expression combination seems a little suspect.
>>151646823I was pretty surprised no one brought it up yet
>>151627753MYSTERY NIGGA
>>151643718The story is fine for what it is. After-school Special kind of thing in newspapers, which get scrutinized by editors and the publicI agree that with OP that it feels like they were just there for that story because it feels like they were under utilized after. I know Lin gets Lisa to go to Lin's grandma for herbal medicine, but I honestly cannot remember anything else Li and Lin do after that before moving out in 2006. In contrast, Khan or Kahn or whatever his name is supposed to be, I remember more of him because like he probably shot down Wally's chopper in Afghanistan, then saved his life when Wally and Becky visited Afghanistan, then moved to Westview, probably tried to open a restaurant after Li and Lin were moving out, but couldn't and got a job at Montoni's where he's there all the way to Act 3, where he and Crazy were getting concerned about Funky's growing arrogance and focus on Montoni's at the expense of a lot of stuff
>>151647074There's also the heavy implication bordering on outright fact that she's the Dragon Lady. She even gives Wally Terry's flight jacket. So both Dick Tracey and Terry and the Pirates exist in the Funkyverse.
>>151640595I do relate to Les here.
>>151647617Yes and if you go by the Dick Tracy comic's own crossovers and references that brings in The Spirit, Green Hornet, Annie, For Better or For Worse, Barney Google, a human version of Ishida from Usagi Yojimbo, and hints of Buckaroo Banzai, The Shadow, and BatmanSticking to only the Funky comic we already saw Dick Tracy in Act 1 and will see him again in the crossover in Act 3 that ties into something that was going on in the Dick Tracy comic; but also in Act 3 we will see the Flash Museum and Dexter Myles, the curator of the Flash Museum in the DC comics. And the Funky and Crankshaft comics of 2003, when Lillian McKenzie decides to sell her house, you see that the realtor is Lois Flagston from Hi and Lois.There's probably some others I don't remember or didn't catch when I read them
>>151647918Oh, there's also a 2003 comic where Harry Dinkle and his assistant go door-to-door selling tofu band candy and in the background and you can hear Lucy telling Charlie Brown she'll hold the ball so he can kick it, and then Charlie Brown's AAUUGH afterwards
Glad to see this thread is still up, just caught up with the last ones. I’m surprised Dinkle didn’t kill Wally for losing the Battle of the Bands
>>151627449Slick Willy saves the day again.
>>151627537Will you be storytiming John Darling after this?
>>151627558Dinkle you fool, you resell the booze on the cheap in the US.>>151627573Love the silhouette.
>>151627697Kek>>151627972>first stripSomething something Simpsons didn’t predict anything it’s just America has had these issues for decades.
>>151627984>>151627998>>151628019Honestly I’m okay with this drama>>151628104Though the fact that it doesn’t get properly resolved is a cop out.>>151628132Good old Dinkle.
>>151628143>>151628159Fuggin’ Dinkle man, I love you.
>>151648822Not op but he said previously too little of it is available
>>151628274>Nick O TeenBetter call Supermanhttps://youtu.be/oljZbk9qsMM?si=v5BQk0EGgamJL76e
>>151628274Also going back to what I said in one of the previous threads, whilst this is fine in a collected format I would imagine being somewhat miffed/confused/bemused if I picked up the paper and got a strip of some guy smoking a cigarette. Conversely if I were a regular reader it would be somewhat annoying to wait a whole day to see Wally puff on a tab.The art is cool though (as usual smoking just looks cool for some reason).
>>151628330Poor girl
>>151628385>Something against superheroes?Yes, clearly it should be Batman and Wonder Woman.
>>151628416>>151628424Well at least something nice happened to them, for now.
>>151628469>>151628477I feel for Stropp, at least he has some friends.
>>151628499Oh come on, not the trophy.
>>151628646So he’s going to put Funky in debt to him so he can semi-retire and let him run the business?
>>151640077Ah the old geezer is back again. I’m guessing he’ll be here for a couple of weeks and then vanish again. In fairness that is often how things are in real life.
>>151640111Well if Shakespeare didn’t write the plays then why is his name on all the books?
>>151640120I hope Harry included a gif of some flames or something on the border of his website in true Geocities style. Also I assume that last panel is a joke and not a setup.>>151640131Ah good.>>151640149Some good strips this week. I feel like Mike is underused.
>>151640175Yeah I’m siding with Lisa here.>>151640204What ‘90’s kid is listening to Herman’s Hermits? Or specifically what rock/grunge kid is listening to Herman’s Hermits (a fine band but Batiuk is showing his age a bit).>>151640218Hoho>>151640230Didn’t expect Twitch to return.>>151640245Funky’s Pizza isn’t a terrible name, also they’re really getting a lot out of that ID photo.
