Sundays comic , Funky Winterbean (sp)

putz · Post by **putz** » Tue Mar 08, 2005 7:48:01 pm

Did anyone else read this past Sunday's comic strip Funky Winterbean(sp)?
It was this lady going into a comic shop and conversing with the guy behind the counter.
I didnt get it cause it didnt seem funny, just looked like a normal conversation.

davidb · Post by **davidb** » Tue Mar 08, 2005 7:51:54 pm

It was part of a storyline they're doing now. She's having the comic guy arrested because he's selling adult comics. Talk about a story ripped from the headlines...

David B.

KO2003 · Post by **KO2003** » Tue Mar 08, 2005 8:30:33 pm

Yeah, its Funky Winkerbean.

Daniel Jackson · Post by **Daniel Jackson** » Wed Mar 09, 2005 10:08:03 am

Never really cared for Funky too much. I usually go right to Dilbert when I read the Sunday Comics Section.

myron · Post by **myron** » Wed Mar 09, 2005 10:11:01 am

funky can get like doonsbury at times...i.e. take itself a tad to seriously...

Daniel Jackson · Post by **Daniel Jackson** » Wed Mar 09, 2005 10:20:31 am

myron wrote:funky can get like doonsbury at times...i.e. take itself a tad to seriously...

That is another strip I never really cared for much, Doonesbury. I know it's considered to be a classic and has run for a long time but it just never appealed to me.

myron · Post by **myron** » Wed Mar 09, 2005 10:26:42 am

Daniel Jackson wrote:
myron wrote:funky can get like doonsbury at times...i.e. take itself a tad to seriously...
That is another strip I never really cared for much, Doonesbury. I know it's considered to be a classic and has run for a long time but it just never appealed to me.

I liked it when it first came out, in fact I have some of the paperbacks that they put out in the early 80's, but he got waaaayyy to deep into the satire to even be considered satire anymore...it's almost political activism now...

Daniel Jackson · Post by **Daniel Jackson** » Wed Mar 09, 2005 10:48:23 am

it's almost political activism now

I agree. I think that is probably why it never really clicked with me.

X-O HoboJoe · Post by **X-O HoboJoe** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 10:35:42 am

we have no funky winking beans in our paper how'd the story turn out?

davidb · Post by **davidb** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 11:34:42 am

The comic shop owner got arrested for selling obscene materials. A flashback told us that the woman who turned him in to the police is a friend's mother who once protested a school magazine as having obscene poetry.

It's still going - looks like we'll have some legal drama coming up.

On a side note - if the art didn't still look the same, I'd wonder if Tom Batiuk was taking another vacation and letting John Byrne do the strip again.

David B.

X-O HoboJoe · Post by **X-O HoboJoe** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 3:02:20 pm

davidb wrote:On a side note - if the art didn't still look the same, I'd wonder if Tom Batiuk was taking another vacation and letting John Byrne do the strip again.

David B.

Oh God, Funky Wolverbean?

davidb · Post by **davidb** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 9:29:57 pm

Unfortunately, it really happened. I think it was last summer - I remember it was the storyline where the comic book store owner cut his hair and went out on a date with this girl, only for Wally Winkerbean (who'd been thought KIA in the Middle East) to return and take her away.

The art was still pretty true to Batiuk's, but you could tell that there was a slight difference, especially in the comic book guy. Busiek's never been able to draw that Byrne-style haircut the same.

David B.

depluto · Post by **depluto** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 12:24:18 am

davidb wrote:The comic shop owner got arrested for selling obscene materials.

They weren't obscene. They were some Liefeld Captain Americas and the woman was upset that Cap had bigger breasts than her.