Doesn’t anybody in Westview know how to neatly apply Scotch tape? Tony, per favore, keep holding that sign right where you have it: you’re sparing us all from another glimpse of Funky’s huge ass. At least today’s retro flashback is good for a chuckle, taking us back to the days before Darin’s “I-Phone” app.
Tag: Montoni's
Lordy, Lordy, Look Who's Forty
Still with me after yesterday’s post? Thank you, reader.
Let the celebration begin. By some remarkable coincidence, both Funky Winkerbean and Montoni’s Pizzeria celebrate their fortieth anniversaries this week!
Jimmy
March 23, 2012 at 2:05 pm
So, 40th anniversary strips coming up? If Bathack brings us in the wayback machine, I get the feeling they’re going to be a reminder that Funky Winkerbean wasn’t all that good in the 1970s either.
Into the Wayback Machine we go: looks like TB’s going with a “now and then” theme, and if every day is like today’s strip, snarker Jimmy may be on to something. If panel 2 is indeed an original, and not a “reimagining” a la Lynn Johnston, there was probably an original first panel that set this up as an actual joke (Funky dashes into Fred’s office: “Mr. Fairgood! I need to use your phone! It’s an emergency!”). The absence of humor here leaves us to contemplate the young, likeable, slender Funky, whose cargo pants conceal the merest suggestion of a butt that forty years later would threaten to burst right through Montoni’s window.
Many Harry Returns
“So Crazy Harry is fifty-two!” No shit, really? Y’know, because he doesn’t look a day under seventy-five! Funky and Holly treat our quinquagenarian postman to a Montoni’s pie with delicious melted wax topping.
Say what you will about Batiuk; he must be a man of faith. How do we know this? Because he takes so many Sundays off! Great birthday tribute by the way…nothing says “happy birthday” like a reminder that “the sands of time are running out”.
Dry Wit
Having squandered his assets (including Maddie’s college fund) on a stupid Tarzan book yesterday, Crazy Harry can no longer afford his customary cup of coffee. But he’s not going to let that stop him from harassing harried waitress Rachel, who is clearly not in the mood.
FW “Blogs” update: TB has updated his Blogs page to announce that he’s “Hitting the Road” in 2012 to flog The Complete Funky Winkerbean, Vol. I. Unlike Les, though, TB’s is limiting his itinerary mostly to Ohio, but he’ll also be hitting Philly, Illinois and Texas. They never come up into the hills…
Nap' Time
Oh boy, another Pete ‘n’ Crazy Sunday. I guess Pete’s over his writer’s block: the guy who used to be seized with panic when he had to come up with an idea now gets “cool” ideas even while chillin’ at Montoni’s. New ideas don’t come so easily to TB, so he defaults to his trusty “modern technology is useless/evil” theme.
Son of Stuck Funky 
