Crankshaft by Tom Batiuk and Dan Davis for January 30, 2024

Can you help him to an early grave? Or even a belated one?

Maybe Lizard Lil will redeem herself by arranging a cage match between Dinkle and Creepy Les.

Where’s Cranky?

AWWW—-HAHAHAA! Oh crimeny, I slapped my knees so hard from the LOL that they fell off!!! Umm, Tom…This is actually unbelievably boring, and it already looks like it’d going to snail-pace itself into a 3 week arc. (Someone is already typing “They donut has to be funny evry day!” WHEN HAS THIS EVER BEEN FUNNY?)

So, Dinkleberg has been the choir director at St. Spires for almost four years now, and he’s never once had conversations with the ladies about their lives or what they do outside of the loft? Yeah, makes perfect sense.

Looking forward to the crowd scene for Harry’s signing at the Village Booksmith…or, as Lady Oleanna Tyrell once said, “What happens when the nonexistent bumps against the decrepit?”

One stop shopping!

You get to write a book! You get to write a book! Everyone gets to write a book!

Uh oh. Ohioana coming to Columbus in April. Will they go together? (Why is my skin crawling?)

Is this interaction the beginning of a new romance? Please don’t try to pretend that that’s a novel idea.

Wait, does anybody know a goateed guy that loves to sit at tables at bookstores behind a pile of unsold books and wisely smirk and leer.

Where’s Crankshaft? Nobody cares about these characters’ books!

Seriously? A bookstore signing? For his autobiography that in real life would sell about 6 copies and those would all be relatives or friends.

Where’s The Pizza Box Monster?

When’s t he wedding?

Not surprised Dinky does know she’s a best-selling author.

She owns a USED bookstore. For her to carry his book, someone would have to buy it and pass it on to her…

…. why are we having a battle of “which elderly person is less likeable?”. Who asked for this? Welll if Bautik insists.. it’s band guy. I mean Lily may be smug here but A) ownin ga bookstore is neat and B) how do you NOT know what one of your choir persons does after several years of directing them (far as I can tell). It was fair in his band choirs as he was apparently some form of dictator and it’s high school, but it’s diffrent when it’s the same people every year and we’ve already had an overly long arc where they all took a bus. I can’t buy that Lily didn’t bring her bookstore up AT LEAST once on teh long road back and forth to the competition. She’s just too smug not to.

He is known to have written several books. He should know the process of selling, distributing, and promoting them. Erasing history to make accommodate a new story line is ridiculous. TB moved away from a joke a day format to build characters and a universe; rewriting history for a plot’s convenience defeats that whole purpose.

There is so much smug emanating from my computer screen, it’s debilitating. Are they trying to discover who has the bigger ego?

Why not make my misery complete. Let’s bring in Les Moore to make it an unlikeable character-writer trifecta. (puke emoji)

go to montonis buy anchovie pizza book is half off

Harry is going to team up with author Les Moore! Yay!

Lillian will set up a book signing tour at some of the “popular” locations:

Crown Books; B. Dalton; Encore Books; Kroch’s and Brentano’s; Waldenbooks

Where’s Les?

not up for few days of boring books

The choir master has been around Lil how long, and, doesn’t know she runs a bookstore, and, is a (professionally) published author?

And thus, beginning with an innocent conversation, began a a tawdry affair that eventually broadened to ensare another local writer. The resulting ménage à trois would shock even the most jaded Ohioan, and wouldn’t end until an aggrieved wife took out her vengeance, using an Oscar as an effective hammer.

Kindred spirits!!!!!