Crankshaft by Tom Batiuk and Dan Davis for February 09, 2024

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    Bill Thompson  9 months ago

    I predict that this strip will push Crankshaft further into the background and bring in more comic books, pizza, Dinkle and Dead Lisa. Painful enough for the Funkyverse?

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    billsplut  9 months ago

    “Tom’s comics will always SUCK!” (long pause) (Much longer and more painful pause) Tom shrieks: “YOU’RE SUPPOSED TO SAY NOT!”

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    J.J. O'Malley  9 months ago

    Umm, that “Death of the Justice League” issue (JL #75) is from April of 2022! The “deceased” Leaguers have by now mostly returned in their own books or other series (including a current one where they fight Godzilla and Kong). Why is DSH John displaying it and talking it up like it’s a new book and the death angle is a hot topic (one that was played out during 1993’s “Death of Superman” arc in 1993, when novices bought up multiple copies of polybagged books thinking they’d be worth beaucoup bucks)? Of all the modern comics topics Batiuk could discussed in this storyline he probably composed a year ago, this one makes the least amount of sense.

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    J.J. O'Malley  9 months ago

    Oh, and TB: You can sneak in plugs for them all you want. Funko is not going to make a series of “Funky WInkerbean/Crankshaft” Pops. Stop trying to make it happen.

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    billsplut  9 months ago

    Yeah, and Captain America didn’t die, when was that, the 2000s? Spoiler Alert: Tom is VERY behind the times. (SPOILER: Bruce Willis was DEAD ALL THE TIME, and Soylent Green is made of HUMA—oh. You heard that?) TOM, going back to notes: “And SPOILER, Stuart Little WAS A MOUSE!”

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    Gent  9 months ago

    Spolier Alert. Funky Weenkerbean komix is not dies too. It just get merge with Crankyshaft.

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    Carl  Premium Member 9 months ago

    If you want stories where the heroes die; read history.

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    sueb1863  9 months ago

    “Look, buddy, are you going to BUY something? I don’t care about your lousy opinions.”

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    French Persons Premium Member 9 months ago

    I’d like to read “The Death of Comic Books”.

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    French Persons Premium Member 9 months ago

    Panel 3: Why does Howdy-Dooty boy suddenly have red eyes?

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    Lord Flatulence Premium Member 9 months ago

    Yes. Painfully predictable.

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    rockyridge1977  9 months ago

    Another day at the office!!!!!!

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    oakie817  9 months ago

    nowadays they’re all always dying…and everyone in every story keeps saving the universe…when was last time spidey stopped a simple bank robbery?

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    Fetzee  9 months ago

    If they bring back any of the Winkerbean characters I want to sea Funky’s dad score with his daughter in law’s mom. He was always flirting with her

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    [Unnamed Reader - 14b4ce]  9 months ago

    When do Booster and Beetle re=start CLUB JUSTICE LEAGUE?

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    Foob  9 months ago

    Based on the dialogue and my poor eyesight, I thought that book was The Collected Works of Lynn Johnston.

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    ksu71  9 months ago

    Where’s Mary?

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    Stephen M Dallas  9 months ago

    Good point, Tom. It sure isn’t like your beloved silver age, when readers were on the edge of their seats every month wondering if Lois might actually discover Clark Kent was really Superman.

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    EntrancedCat  9 months ago

    Jeff, you immediately take your grandson to the doctor. That’s a terrible case of conjunctivitis!

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    be ware of eve hill  9 months ago

    All comics and no humor make ‘Crankshaft’ a dull read.

    All comics and no humor make ‘Crankshaft’ a dull read.

    All comics and no humor make ‘Crankshaft’ a dull read.

    All comics and no humor make ‘Crankshaft’ a dull read.

    All comics and no humor make ‘Crankshaft’ a dull read.

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    Irish53  9 months ago

    So, it’s Friday now… does this mean that the time with skunk breath is about done?

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    lemonbaskt  9 months ago

    comic book and record shops theres always a guy there telling there boring stories there real loud

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    benjnavarro28  9 months ago

    Somewhat off-topic but I wish there were more “cartoony” comic books out there (we used to have SpongeBob Comics and Scott Roberts’ Patty-Cake, but those are long gone). I was never huge on comic books mostly being about superhero stuff.

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    French Persons Premium Member 9 months ago

    It really is pathetic, all these grown men who just hang around a comic book store all day…

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    MuddyUSA  Premium Member 9 months ago

    Another blank shot………

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    Mopman  9 months ago

    Another day of an avalanche of word balloons. If the last couple of days worth were snow the town would be buried and in trouble.

    And has Mitch aged since he walked into the strip? I know his age fluctuates wildly, but usually not in the same thread.

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    WilliamVollmer  9 months ago

    Another continuing theme. Amanda Waller out to get the Justice League, Titans, etc.

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    Surly Squirrel Premium Member 9 months ago

    DSH John appears quite jowly in the second panel. If you removed the dead skunk, he’d look like he was in his eighties with all that white hair. Only his toupee maker knows for sure.

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