Boy, that Montoni’s reopening is really something. No cooks. No wait staff. No trucks of cheese and flour coming in. No trying out the menu items before the opening. Just two people slapping some Christmas decoration clip art onto the background, and getting ready to unlock the door. You could replace Montoni’s with any vague business venture.
On to 2013 for Dead Skunk Head John Howard then. And now that DSH has secured his work husband at his side, the era of Crazy and the Skunk begins.
After long deliberation on my part. I’ve decided to sprint through the last decade or so of Dead Skunk Head John Howard material, taking things at least a year at a time, if not longer, per posts. That way this blog can finally finish this yearlong delving into a boring, comic obsessed, tertiary character. And move on to the boring, comic obsessed, primary characters. Or maybe I’ll get get tired of these characters finally, and move on to obsessing over The Green Pitcher and other inanimate objects.
Once again, a parody edit in the comments blows the actual Sunday’s ‘funnies’ right out of the water.
So thanks, iansdrunkenbeard, for giving us something to laugh about other than Pete’s horrific Muppet nose and grossly morphing eye bags.
Continue reading “Deerly Departed”I humbly withdraw my earlier criticism that the landmarking of the sign was an “informed attribute.” I see that the whole process and the rationale thereof was shown, albeit nearly 30 years ago.
The Duck of Death, https://sonofstuckfunky.com/2023/12/06/sign-of-the-times/#comment-166678
Another fascinating memory-lane trip that shows how oddly selective the continuity callbacks in the Funkyverse are.
Andrew, https://sonofstuckfunky.com/2023/12/06/sign-of-the-times/#comment-166685
You’re both right. What happened with this Montoni’s sign is a common Tom Batiuk writing practice I’ve been meaning to elevate to a TBTrope.
Undue Weight is a Wikipedia concept. It means something is being paid too much or too little emphasis, relative to its importance to the overall topic. It’s not even about storytelling; it’s a form of bias. It’s something you want to avoid when contributing to an objective, non-fiction encyclopedia article.
So how does it figure into the Funkyverse? TVTropes’ Law of Conservation of Detail says:
There is a fine line between having good, rich Worldbuilding and rambling on about pointless details. Conservation of detail is all about filtering out irrelevant information to highlight the actual plot points or interesting aspects of the setting or character.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheLawOfConservationOfDetail
Some of you were wondering about Tuesday’s Crankshaft strip.
And yeah, this is a reference to an old Funky Winkerbean arc from 1996.
Son of Stuck Funky 