Holly’s Komix Kwest 4 Kory has yet to take her beyond the Westview city limits. Today she browbeats Crazy Harry into revisiting the humiliating circumstances that led him to sell off his most prized possessions. You’d think Harry might know whether or not Komix Korner has sold his Starbuck Jones comic, given that Harry now works there.
Tag: Holly
Over There
In addressing today’s strip, I’m slippin’ on the old “tread lightly” shoes. There are thousands of families right now, waiting and worrying over loved ones who are away serving this country. It must be a “helpless” feeling indeed. That said: how is Holly’s self assigned task supposed to benefit her or her soldier? This all began six weeks ago with Cory complaining to his mom via Skype about the lack of supplies “over there in Afghanistan”. And Holly’s idea of “doing something” about it is chasing down the missing volumes in his comic book collection? Only in the Funkiverse, man…only in the Funkiverse.
Parents Just Don’t Understand
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.
Kory’s Komix
First a couple random notes: though I don’t like to promote the, ahem, competition, Chris Sims’ Funkywatch over at Comics Alliance is especially spot on this month. Also, head on over to the offical FW site to be treated to the spectacle of Ed Crankshaft and Funky Winkerbean fighting over the last Christmas tree in the lot!
Th’ hell? Is Cory dead already? Funky and Holly rummage through his room (just as he left it, snif) and Holly speaks of him in the past tense.
While Cory’s room is actually fairly tidy, what’s a “total mess” (as usual) is the continuity. A month ago we saw Holly include this rare volume in a package that she and Funky were sending to Afghanistan (the rest of that week showed—in flashback—Holly acquiring the comic from “Rocky’s” mom). Now she reaches under the bed and files Starbuck Jones #7 in Cory’s box of Silver Age comics. Perhaps it returned through the same wormhole that enabled Les to check out Funky’s new car in the middle of the Kilimanjaro arc.
Baton Death March
A couple weeks ago, TB equated Les’ endless struggle against writers’s block with “war“. Today, a flaming baton gets likened unto deadly explosives.
Remember “Holly Budd”? Westview’s majorette who wore a fixed smile, and her majorette uniform, round the clock. In addition to being positively deadly with a fiery baton, she was the good-natured vehicle for “dumb blonde” jokes, when you still could get away with that kind of thing in the newspaper funnies. Did Holly Budd die in the flaming baton mishap witnessed by Dinkle in panel 2? Because the dumpy, morose housefrau who is Cory’s (step-?)mom resembles her not at all.
Son of Stuck Funky 
