Crankshaft by Tom Batiuk and Dan Davis for September 06, 2023

Given the background of panel 2, Lillian might be better off finding the box of cat litter. The Shining Twins eyes say “The last book we read was Shirley Jackson’s The Lottery! Gold Stars in June, Corn be heavy soon!”

What’s the name of the book they’re reading? Sorry, I need it shoved into my mug FIVE times before it connects.

Aren’t the two girls a bit young for James Joyce?

Panel 1, right side: “No, Mr. Bond. I want you to die!”

She seems very happy about it…..and the twins……..??

Lot of suspense here. Like, what could possibly happen for three more days? And don’t forget the rules: you have to stay in the same room and hold up the same book, with at least one panel containing a giant closeup.

Apparently the book club only reads during the school year because….?

And she couldn’t read it the past two years but just flew through it over the summer?

Where’s Crankshaft?

Where is Crankshaft?

laugh riot that old crow

Ha ha. Condescension is always funny. /s

Maybe it’s just me, but Lillian’s line reminds me of Don Rickles sarcastically saying. “Very good. You win a cookie!”

Lillian’s approach of treating some book club members as schoolchildren may be justifiable. After all, two of them are actually school-aged children. One of the members, a dark-haired woman, pouted yesterday because she wanted to read a different book. Meanwhile, the curly-haired woman is acting like a teacher’s pet today.

Tomorrow, I predict the blonde woman will have a written excuse from her mother or ask to be excused so she can go to the restroom.

I hope one day this week features the shining twins’ parents telling Lillian to stay away from their daughters. Truancy officers busting the shining twins for playing hooky from school works, too.

How did Lillian make her living anyway? She appears to be the classic spinster school marm.

What happened to JJ?

And today’s second panel word balloon is considered funny because…?

That sounds like one of my coworkers (the gold stars).

… but truth be told, she needed over two years to read the book.

It took a month of asking Siri to explain “Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed. A yellow dressing gown, ungirdled, was sustained gently-behind him by the mild morning air. He held the bowl aloft and intoned.”

All Siri would reply was “I’m sorry, but I cannot comply with your request. I am here to help you with your web searches, not to harm myself or others.”

Tom! Please slow down the breakneck pace of this roller coaster thrill ride of horror plot twists that is “Old ladies read a book for 3 years!” OH GOSH MY HEART, ahhhhh Oh jeepers, I got shot by a talking monkey—AGAIN

My earlier comment (about editing down Lizard Lil’s Last Line) has vanished.

Haha! (＾▽＾)