Beanie Wanker
March 27, 2012 at 9:54 am
So in Wankerville, Ahia, is Montoni’s the town restaurant, wedding chapel, city hall, morgue, comic book store/library (upstairs), church, and convention center?
…and video store. So Dinkle rented Patton on VHS? What’s funny about that? Sure, its opening theme is a stirring march (my own high school band played it, too). And Patton wore a uniform all the time, as did (and sometimes still does) Harry L. Dinkle the Band Director. But you think Dinkle’s tastes would run to something like The Music Man, or Stars and Stripes Forever. And that’s what Montoni’s calls a “large pizza”? The box isn’t much bigger than the box that the video’s in!
Has anybody else noticed this green Tupperware pitcher that keeps turning up in the Montoni’s scenes? I can’t be arsed to go back and find other instances, and it’s not gonna get its own tag (like Les’ yellow shirt, which he’s wearing again). But it does turn up regularly. Maybe it’s Montoni Sr.’s ashes. Or Funky’s stash of vodka and orange?
In case you’ve been wondering whether the 40th anniversary “flashbacks” are the actual vintage strips, 
It’s natural for a cartoonist’s style to evolve, especially over four decades. But the “charm” that billytheskink mentions is absent in the redrawn version. Check out the facial expressions, Les’ comical posture, and the sweet checkered tablecloth. Compare both panels: imagine the dialogue balloon is not there, and consider which one still tells the story.
Son of Stuck Funky 
