Crankshaft by Tom Batiuk and Dan Davis for February 07, 2024

Whereas this conversation would be called “more boring than watching paint dry” in any age. In the meantime, Jfff, maybe you should be paying attention to what your grandson is doing.

Today he’d be called DIO!!

Where’s Crankshaft?

Look at all the word zeppelins! The last time there were so many airships in one place, the Kaiser was bombing London!

Today this strip is called “Time Killer.”

“No!” Crazy Harry shouts. “You can’t play with my toys!”

I would think that during the Golden Age he would be Chronos. During the Silver Age he would be the clock.

As far as the this comic goes, Batty-ick is known as “The Hack”.

Actually Kang

Komix. It called Komix.

There stone age komix, bronze age komix, gold age komix, seelver age komix, and then finally old age komix. Ha ha ha ha. Waits what? He no go for old age joke today?

Or he might be known as the Master Timekeeper, at least to his mask.

PLEASE can we leave the comic shop? PLEASE???

And in this, the “Sew Age” of komix (thanks wherescrankshaft for that term), the time-traveling villain would obviously be known as TimeMop®, the Rather Elegant Solution™!

Here’s hoping Crazy throws the kid out the window.

Actually, Chronos dumped The Atom for Ted Kord’s BLUE BEETLE.Those two REALLY hated each other.

One thing will NEVER change—people who read everything on the rack and buy nothing

Crankshaft is home reading GUY GARDNER:WARRIOR back issues.Those two have a lot in common

Or Time Mop!

It is funny strictly because you hate it…as always.

Well this sucks, P3 got left out so we don’t get any punchline.

Keep an eye on the kid stacking stuff.

A career criminal.

I assume because modern kids don’t use clocks or watches (they look at phone) and don’t know enough language to know what allegorical names mean (like “Chronos” implying time is involved).

i wonder if any comic book shops are buying prints of these strips ? thats his target audience i assume

Wow, this is great, TB. Thanks for sharing. /s

Komix for komix lovers… I guess.

While grandparents babysitting their grandchildren isn’t unusual, it does make me wonder.

Where are Max and Hannah? Are they managing the Valentine Theater? Are they doing their jobs at Channel One? Or are they following Darrell and Jessica’s example, and making out in Max’s boyhood bedroom?

Or “Sex Criminals”, which has been quite an acclaimed comic book series…

Finding Crankshaft!

The latest edition is published by Elon Musk.

It’s titled “TimeX”. Watch for it.

….nothing changes…..just the names!!!!!!

Project Pitchfork – Timekiller

https://youtu.Be/rY9eSzB-KbU

This is so “old man yells at cloud” it hurts. As someone who reads comics every week this is just baffling. Chronos.. is a name that would work just as well now as it would’ve back then. It’s a simple one word that evokes what the villian is and how big a threat he is. Most villian names nowadays tend to be either one or two word or a fun pun like the old days, just a more modern one.

It’s also annoying as .. Bautik could just.. spend the week waxing about how much he loves the atom. That’s it. Ray Palmer is neat and the silver age atom is something I don’t know much about. YOu could make plenty of jokes baout size, his rogues gallery etc. Instead your complaning about a medium you don’t understand. Even when I disagree with other creators choices on here.. I can still repsect them. But I can’t respect trashing a medium constantly that you refuse to engage with in the now.

Actually Ray Palmer had a foe who called himself Chronos, and, Batman (and, others I believe, ) fought a Clock King is the “silver age.”

No doubt the wall of intriguing words in the first panel alone would hook any casual reader into becoming a regular Crankshaft aficionado.

What’s up with the white patch on top of Dead Skunkhead’s head in the first panel? Is it really supposed to be white or did the colorist forget to make it flesh-colored?

If it’s supposed to be white, can we start calling him “Donut Head”?