Tag: Cory

Like a restless wind inside a comic box

Big guest star get in today’s strip. Playing the role of Cory is Deimos, the potato-shaped second moon of Mars. TB clearly has friends high up in the IAU if he’s getting celestial bodies onto the set.

So… what else is happening?
– In a ringing endorsement of the quality of Starbuck Jones, Cory has never been more sure of anything he has ever done ever, than he is about his desire to sell these comic books.
– We also learn that this is NOT a complete collection, as I and others might have inferred, but that the first few issues are reprints from an archive book.
– Cory also drops the fact that Funky once owned Starbuck Jones #1 on the guy who knows that better than anyone. In fact, we were first introduced to Batom Comics and Starbuck Jones because DSH got behind on his rent during a bad month for Montoni’s back in 2010. Funky had to crack open the Montoni’s safe and sell his non-bagged, non-slabbed copy of issue #1 to save his shop AND DSH’s deadbeat hind parts in the process. It was OK, though, because Funky was never in to Starbuck Jones, only buing the comic because an old guy, who was actually his present self but badly injured in a car accident and hallucinating that he was his present self but in the Act I past, told him to do so.

Anyways, did DSH ever pay Funky back for covering for him? Or does he think helping Holly assemble the very collection Cory is now selling squares them?

In any event, today we have what I believe is the first conversation between two characters who Funky has been far too generous with (remember who covered for Cory’s theft at the Lisa walk). May as well have Les walk in for good measure…

Sorry, I didn’t really mean that.

Other than that, how was the play, Mrs. Winkerbean?

Nefarious deeds are afoot in today’s strip. Where is Cory sneaking off to with his Holly’s collection of Starbuck Jones comics? It’s a mystery… for anyone who didn’t read yesterday’s strip.

What is more surprising? That someone other than the Westview high school drama department is putting on a play within driving distance of Westview or that the Winkerbean household owns TWO Batiukmobiles®?

The latter, I guess. Now that I think about it, Funky and Holly’s play probably is being put on by the Westview high school drama department and owning two Batiukmobiles® is the only way for a Batiukmobile® owner to ensure that they have a greater than 50% chance of being able to start their car.

Tuesday, October 20

Today’s strip was, again, not available for preview.

Until current content becomes available, we’re going to take a trip in Mr. Peabody’s WABATIUK machine to the distant past. Tis a past so different, and yet not so different from our own time… A past in which Westview has an operating post office, DSH wears a ponytail, and Wally Jr. still exists… But also a past in which Lisa “lives”, Les holds his students in contempt, and Holly snowplow moms up the joint…

Travel with me, won’t you all, to March 6, 2007 (Act III’s 1997) and see that Holly snowplowed away consequences of actions when Cory was quite young, giving him the clear route he took to criminal miscreancy.

Bus driver please look for me

Today’s strip is actually kind of sweet, for the most part. It isn’t really a satisfying payoff to this past week’s glacial activity, but it does express a very nice sentiment.

Cory calling Westview “a sight for sore eyes” is, uh, some other things.

For one thing, it’s bizarre. In his teen years, Cory was pretty much never depicted as enjoying his life in Westview. Yes, that could be said about nearly every character in this strip, but unlike the adults around him Cory wallowed in it because he had no choice about living there. He seized his best opportunity of escaping and, until now, never looked back wistfully.

For another thing, calling Westview “a sight for sore eyes” in this context is a grave insult to the nation of Afghanistan.