When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
1 Corinthians 13:11 (KJV)
Batiuk’s certainly getting enough mileage out of Joe Staton’s cover for Starbuck Jones #7, which makes its fourth appearance today…
With all due respect to the apostle Paul, comic books are the holy scripture of Westview (and pizza is their Holy Communion). The Komix Korner should have been called the Ark of the Covenant. Comic books are hardly”childish things”, and even the most clueless of moms knows that they are not something to be “pitched”. Amen.
Son of Stuck Funky 
Yeah Funky, and Montoni’s should have been called “Where Good Times Go To Die”. What can you even say about a strip so listless and banal? “Pitched”…OK Tom, whatever you say.
She (Holly) almost pitched all those comics books once?
What? Cory has been gone almost 12 months only …an only child in a big house with no one ever visiting..so they don’t need the extra space..
Either CW is dead or Batiuk is a terrible story teller.
I call dibs on “My Mother Threw Mine Away” as the name of my new progressive rock band!! Or Tom Batiuk’s tell-all biography. Either one.
Funky in panel 2 appears to have found Cory’s stash of violent porn comics.
I love the idea of Holly, trance-like, putting the comic book back in the box, then getting it out to look at it, putting it back in, then pulling it out of the box again to look at it, all without Funky commenting on her utterly insane behavior.
I wish Batiuk really went with the whole Funky-is-a-dick thing and had him sigh before saying “my son really was a dork, wasn’t he?” I mean, I thought Cory had, if nothing else, some rebel-cool to him, but no, he collects comic books and puns and spouts douchy wordplay, so he’s just as big a dope as anyone else.
I can’t wait for the inevitable horrible mangling he’s due for.
Someone’s still a little bitter about all of his back issues of Superman’s Girlfriend, Lois Lane getting put out on the curb, isn’t he?
OK TB, I’m calling bull on your love of comics. These are suppose rare comics that carry a great deal of meaning for these folks. Yet they aren’t bagged and boarded. Either A) they don’t really care about the comics, B) you know nothing about the collector mentality, or C) you can’t draw a bagged comic. I’m going with B & C.
Sadly, got nothing more than what I put on the other site:
Well besides the obligatory message of how great comic books are and how they should be preserved (even the 1990s Liefeldan Age of Decay) what exactly is happening? Are these people going to be mailing their son his comics or not?
Seriously, has his mother just been sitting around, reading them, making horribly uniformed comments comparing them to Downton Abbey and putting off the day she sends her poor boy the comics he asked for weeks ago?
Cory, joining the military was the best thing you ever did. It got you away from this cesspool town of selfishness, procrastination and a morbid fascination with the dead.
Given the fact that several years ago Funky sold a rare copy of SJ #1 to pull himself out of grave financial circumstances, it seems pretty unlikely and really stupid that Holly would just blithely “pitch” a box of well-cared for, organized and possibly valuable comic books, much less comic books that belong to her son who’s serving in a war zone. But hey, who cares about common sense, logic or (guffaw) continuity when there’s an awful (and played out decades ago) punchline to set up, right?
“Cory, joining the military was the best thing you ever did. It got you away from this cesspool town of selfishness, procrastination and a morbid fascination with the dead.”
Reading this reminds me of the passage in Mark Twain’s WAR PRAYER:
“broken in spirit, worn with travail, imploring Thee for the refuge of the grave and denied it — for our sakes who adore Thee, Lord, blast their hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimage, make heavy their steps, water their way with their tears, stain the white snow with the blood of their wounded feet! We ask it, in the spirit of love, of Him Who is the Source of Love, and Who is the ever-faithful refuge and friend of all that are sore beset and seek His aid with humble and contrite hearts. Amen.”
If Westview then was like Westview now, I’m sure Clemens would have included it somewhere. But then, maybe he was prescient………..
Holly: “I almost pitched all of these comics once…then I realized that Cory was a child of the 21st century, which means he never bought single issue comics in the first place, let alone seventy year old ones. Furthermore, I realized that jokes about how all mothers automatically and innately see comics only as trash, missing out on their value are based on gender stereotypes and sexist nerd snobbery of a truly disgusting, despicable kind.”
Funky: “….and I just realized I never collected comics as a kid. Or an adult. So if I didn’t and you didn’t and Cory didn’t….*…”
(Cue THE TWILIGHT ZONE theme music!)
Forget Starbuck Jones, I want to know what’s in the mysterious paper sack sitting on the CW’s dresser.
On another note, there are only 20 shopping days ’til Christmas, which reminds me… Have you ever wanted the closest equivalent of a Funky Winkerbean Advent calendar? Ever wanted to scrawl big red Xs across pictures of Les and Funky? Do you enjoy drawings of early Act I stalwart Livinia standing around in snow flurries? Was Barry Balderman a little person?
Well, now you can have all of that and MORE, with 1984’s “Editorial Promotion: Christmas ‘Countdown’ with Funky & Friends.”.
The real McCoy is available for purchase on eBay, just in case you’ve always wanted to see the face of a friend or loved one when they open a Christmas countdown calendar on Christmas morning.
I rarely read the comments over at CK, but this one–“How many years has that sack lunch been sitting on the dresser?”–made me laugh out loud. Probably the best laugh FW has generated all year.
@billytheskink Amazing find! As you can see, I wasted no time in incorporating it. Funky Christmas everybody!
Day 1’s drawing should have been used for number 2. Despite years of advice to the contrary, Funky Winkerbean still refuses to lower his pants before using the toilet.
Awesome find, @BillyTheSkink! Because when I think of the advent of the Christ, I think of Funky Winkerbean. And the font Hobo.
And wow, lately the strip has had more pitching than the World Series!
How times have changed.