HA! HA! HA! HA! HA!

Someone must have spotted the tribal tattoo on Cory’s bicep…

I have to confess: this week’s storyline is actually kind of fun. The pizza slice costume is perfectly ridiculous, kinda suggesting the work of R. Crumb. And forcing Cory to wear it is positively poetic. I don’t know if Cory’s body language is intentional…it seems a little nuanced for this strip. But I like how in panel 2 he appears startled, and his dejected slouch in panel 3 is apparent even through the foam-padded costume. Well done, TB, well done. I shall lay aside the snark gun for today. Besides, it’s not your fault that the colorist messed up girl 3’s hair in the second panel.

Life of Slice

The years have been even less kind to Funky than we knew: not only is he now paunchy and gray-haired, but he’s become too deaf to overhear Les’ stage-whispered threat to Cory. And not for nothing: Water-bottle-gate happened almost a year ago. Is Cory gonna let Les hold that over his head for the rest of his life? If Les only knew what happened to that cigar box full of cancer funds…

Anyway: wherever did they find a pizza costume with a built-in codpiece?

Pizza Crap

David O
May 4, 2010 at 12:30 am
Yep, I can see Cory waving a sign around dressed as a slice of pizza or something.

Or nothing! I don’t think anyone here disagrees that the CW is due for his comeuppance. And what could be worse than dressing the cocky, “F the world” little twerp in a pizza costume and putting his punk ass on the street?

I wish to point out that Les looks rather distinguished in panel one. Maybe it’s only when he opens his mouth to speak that he looks like a douche?

McToni’s: I’m Hatin’ It®

You know the only way Cory ever sets foot in Montoni’s is if his dad has summoned him, and it’s never good. Funky is charged up about something. So far, his plan to “beat the economy” (bad, bad economy!) has entailed closing all other branches and curtailing hours at the last remaining one. This on top of already using cheap, poor-quality ingredients and probably paying his employees squat. No wonder Cory is predisposed to hate whatever’s coming next.

Misery Index Monday


Did everybody have a nice weekend? Good. Welcome back to the dreary hell that is Westview, Ohio. Ed Crankshaft Funky Winkerbean sits in his office at the counter working on his latest “can’t miss” marketing strategy: assigning each day of the week its own failed economy theme…”Wealth Tax Wednesday…Tax Burden Thursday…Federal Reserve Fridays…yeah, that’ll get ’em in here to eat our lousy pizza!

Harry’s perplexed look in panel 2 is not a response to Holly’s punchline; rather, he’s trying to figure out how she makes her arms do that.