Crankshaft by Tom Batiuk and Dan Davis for March 04, 2023

Oh, for the love of… Just rename the strip “Cranky Winkershaft and the Atomik Komix Bullpen Gang” already, Baituk!

Oh, man, how did Dullard sneak in there? And how did he get even uglier than before?

Her biography requires a folder to hold it all? This is supposed to be just a blurb to put on the bookstore’s Web site, not an article on her life for Wikipedia.

Atomix Komix Now in two locations

Is that suppose to draw a crowd or cheer people up from reading the other humdrum books.

I’m sure Lillian is just thrilled to stock schlocky comic books at her vintage book store, especially since she didn’t ask for them.

And would she have to pay any fees to the publisher to have these in her store?

As The Burnings consume Worstview, a few refugees make their way to the purported safe haven of Centerville, bringing with them a few meager possessions that escaped the flames. We can only hope that Less Moore is not among them, for he is the target of the cleansing fire.

I may need to write a bio and set up a web site as I become a virtual assistant.

And the trainwreck continues. Why the devil does Lillian’s bookstore need a comic book rack? She doesn’t sell comic books!

And we see Boy St. Lisa. Soon St. Lisa herself will take over this strip. It’ll be worse than having Crankshaft in this strip.

The guys figure it would be great advertising – even though nobody goes up to Lillian’s bookstore. They probably are wishful thinking!

The comics will bring the kids in, and the kids will bring their parents in and they might buy Lillian’s books.

Of course the comics are no longer 10 cents.

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It’s sure great she got a comic book writer to write a freaking manuscript to put on the website as her “bio”. And since I assume he typed this up on his laptop, couldn’t he, oh, I don’t know, email it to her? Since it needs to be online anyway? Now Lillian has to hunt and peck for three days typing this all in.

The next plotline should be people talking at a diner for weeks on end .

Sadly, I called this on March 2nd.

I’m dreading the day whenever Batiuk decides to make Lil’s bookstore the Centerville branch of the Komix Korner or a seller of Atomik Komix. Agree with many of the commenters here. Let’s keep the Winkerbean invasion of Crankshaft down to a reasonable level.

There’s Duhrenn and an Atomik Komix spinner rack. I didn’t expect it so soon. So blatant.

I quit following Funky Winkerbean for a reason. I got fed up with all the incredibly dull Atomik Komix story arcs. When can we expect to see Les and a Dead St. Lisa flashback? Can somebody please shoot off a flare for me when the guy in the red hat and red windbreaker returns?

I guess it’s only fair that she help him out by selling his comics since he wrote her bio for free.