Throwing Shade

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That was fast. Dick Tracy is indeed in the strip, but today he’s only playing a background role as BanTom has decided to focus on two totally forgotten stupid one-off characters from last year’s idiotic Starbuck Jones arc instead. So typically self-indulgent. I can’t believe he’s actually making this DT crossover arc all about a f*cking comic book auction, I mean talk about a lack of imagination.

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34 thoughts on “Throwing Shade”

  1. Today’s FW
    Today’s DT

    TFH sez: hey gang, we’re understandably a little touchy around here about copyright. Please refrain from posting today’s current strips here. Each day’s Funky strip is linked to in the posts, and I’ve put a swell link in the sidebar to Dick Tracy at GoComics.

  2. Oooh, Dick Tracy does not take to the Westview Smirk very well. But on the positive side, Joe Stanton has perfectly captured Funky’s expression of resigned despair.

  3. Panel two of FW features unique hatchet face – on – hatchet face action. So there’s that.

  4. I have a feeling that Staton drawing Westview is really going to show how crappy Batiuk’s art has gotten.

  5. Sam Ketchum may want to rethink his stance on having bribes with anchovies after he has his first Montoni’s Pizza.

  6. @Spacemanspiff85: “I have a feeling that Staton drawing Westview is really going to show how crappy Batiuk’s art has gotten.”

    Two takeaways:
    1) Brenden Buford reads DT and FW side-by-side the next few days, and then starts counting down the days until Batom® retires. What is he going to do otherwise, demand that Batom® up his game to their level?

    2) Batom®’s friendship with Joe Staton results in him hand-picking Staton/Curtis to take over Funky Winkerbean once he mercifully retires. Hopefully before 2022; a man can dream.

  7. So, is the auction arc over already? I hope so, because that means that Sam and Dick are going to eat crappy Montoni’s pizza, decide that it constitutes a crime, and go on a killing spree!

    That’s what I would do, anyway.

  9. That’s unbelievable. DT points two dorks toward a comic book auction and stops off for pizza while he’s in town. All that’s left is the sad debilitating illness. Comic book nonsense followed by dinner at Montoni’s, I mean WE couldn’t even make this shit up. Talk about phoning it in.

  13. And “shady characters”…it’s a police auction involving comic books, DT, so you’ll have to be a tad more specific.

  14. I don’t think that the strips are synced correctly. At least judging by the dialogue in DT, they stopped at Montoni’s BEFORE the auction started, yet it’s already taking place in FW. But he’s in both strips seemingly at the same point and time.

    In defense to Staton/Curtis, they are collaborating with a guy who does his strips on Luigi napkins a full year in advance. So there you go.

  16. Meanwhile, we’re stuck dealing with the fact that Skunkhead and Harry are whining because their rivals are allowed to participate in the auction and thus might perhaps try to pay fair market value for things.

  17. It’s easy to believe that Chester and Nick saunter into the Komix Korner, stare at John for a while, then just take whatever they want off the shelves and walk out without paying. How does this little boy make a living in the rough comics trade? (It’s a rhetorical question, he lives off his wife’s job).

  18. I know others have said this, but I just find it so funny that Staton/Curtis draw the main character, FW, better than TB does. It’s so funny – I like it.

  19. It’s obvious that Dick is visibly angry that he can’t just pump lead into Crazy Harry and Dead Skunk Head right off the bat, because they are already leaden as hell.

  21. I know others have said this, but I just find it so funny that Staton/Curtis draw the main character, FW, better than TB does. It’s so funny – I like it.
    Stanton and Curtis don’t really have a choice, if they drew Funky like TB does then Tracy and Ketchum would surely confuse him for Little Face Finny.

  22. Dick Tracy has pizza. This is the crossover? Ye Gods it’s like having Superman go get the take out – well that would make some sense because at least he’d be quick.

  23. @bobanero: “This Dick Tracy crossover arc may end up being FW’s most plausible story line of the year.”
    Considering that the last two major DT storylines had him rescue Little Orphan Annie and chasing/apprehending a Boris Karloff look-a-like, I’d say you’re about right.

  25. @TFH: Thanks for changing the first comment. I was intending for the comment to be reformatted as links or deleted outright within an hour or two as per SoSF’s standard operating procedure with the daily previews, but I wasn’t sure how… or who… to ask. Or if it was practical.

  28. Man! I don’t even know where to start! First of all, this has to be the dumbest, most contrived crossover plot I’ve ever seen in any medium. I mean, c’mon, a special dinner celebrating a comic book auction? And L’Auteur Glorieux used today’s strip to resurrect a couple of one-off characters from one of his more inane and boring story arcs in ages? Second, in order to fully understand this, you have to go back and read Dick Tracy strips from two years ago. Finally, to top it off, the two strips created contradictory plot developments on day one. In Tracy it says the proceeds of the auction are going to charity, but in Bean it says the money is being split by the cops and the pharmacy owner. What’s wrong, couldn’t L’Auteur Glorieux be bothered to take the time to discuss basic plot points with Staton & Curtis?

  29. “The real excitement happens when Dick Tracy meets Mason Jarr the Movie Actor.”

    This strip could have been a whole lot more entertaining if they used Pottsy instead of Dick Tracy.

  33. @Epicus and @TFH: NJ.com carries DT via Comics Kingdom (for some bizarre reason, DT – and other Tribune Media comics – appear in the Comics Kingdom infrastructure with affiliated newspapers websites and not Comics Kingdom itself… I have no clue why), so that would be an alternate link for DT beyond their GoComics home.

    As for GoComics, they update at 1AM EST as opposed to
    Comics Kingdom updating at 12AM sharp.

    Hope that helps! 🙂

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