Crankshaft by Tom Batiuk and Dan Davis for December 26, 2023

“Eating pizza just won’t be the same unless you have this picture of this guy who was murdered 30 years ago on your walls. Merry Christmas!”

Where’s Crankshaft?

When does The Green Pitcher make its grand return?

It’s starting to look really good!

I gotta ask WHY funky sold the celebrity photo of a dead man to some guy despite knowing johns daughter lived in town. And why thus strip decided to do this big self congradulatory arc that doesn’t remotely explain monotonis for readers who either haven’t read funky or some guy making fun of funky on the internet as I have.

who are all these people? and where’s crankshaft?

I know nothing give me an appetite like staring at a picture of a man who was murdered.

“My dad, John Darling. Also, my father, John Darling, and my pop, John Darling. He was murdered.”

I guess they didn’t even bother cleaning and/or painting the walls, as the faded paint from where the pictures originally hung is still there. Wait, shouldn’t it be DARKER where the pictures were covering the wall?

But at least the counter and floor are shining like the sun. I was glad to travel from Milford to take care of those.

Jeeze folks, Christmas was yesterday. Is your grand opening really 365 days away????

I remember the John Darling comic when it was in the paper. A while ago now.

Well….there are other pictures too!!!!!

i never saw a pizza place with counter seats is that a midwest thing ?

Wow. A comic strip CAN ruin your day!

“Nice.” (pause) “Who’s John Darling? Did he do something important?”

All these good-hearted people, that spent money to buy this stuff from Funky, all just decided to give it all back?

“What? That’s not the original photo?! Get that crap outta here!”

“Darling…. John Darling. Now that’s a name I’ve not heard in a long, long time. Long time”….. “My uncle says he’s dead”. … “Oh, he’s not dead… Not yet”. … “So you know him?” …. “Of course I know him! He’s me. I haven’t gone by the name of John Darling, oh, since before you were born”.

It occurs to me that MoPete is a prime example of what Professor Lawrence J. Peter (The Peter Principle) referred to as “compulsive incompetence.” That is, having been successful in the comic book, movie, and comic book cover fields, MoPete is now compulsively jumping into a new career where he might finally rise to his level of incompetence. Y’know, like Elon Musk, who couldn’t reach his level of incompetence making electric cars and rockets, and so decided to take over running a social media company.

The place looks great!! So many people th ink it shouldn’t, but it does

Wow! :D