Crankshaft by Tom Batiuk and Dan Davis for March 01, 2024

Yeah, it’s a match made in Hell—and Cranky loves to play with matches.

I love this, reminds me of my dad!

What a mealy-mouthed moron.

That black mould on the wall is just keep growing thicker and thicker…

“Um….are…are you having a stroke?”

Les is lurking……

That would be a joyous juxtaposition of malapropisms!

Two peas in a pod!!!!

And no matter what you hear,The Flash did NOT get his powers from Mopee

Now this is the high quality humor we’ve all been waiting for.

I should introduce you. He’s the OTHER guy who stills gets a printed newspaper.

Perhaps the resurrection of Crankshaft in his own cartoon?

Jeff: What inspired you to create the main character in “The Wrinkles”?

Batton: My father and my experience taking the bus to school.

Confimistic? Nice twist in vocabulary! Norm Crosby should be around today to hear it. It was his specialty as a comic.

those 3 girls from sally forth must be in the archie section of the comicbook store

“Seriously. Neither of you are at all funny but maybe you can keep him from setting the house on fire for a few hours.”

BattEd ThomShaft? O<[|;o)

“I should introduce you two. You could hang out with him at Dale Evans, you could get a job as a bus driver so you can insult Lena’s cooking, you could join his bowling league so you can insult Lena’s bowling… heck, you could even move in with us, so you can be around all the time! That’s what this comic has been missing all this time, a thinly-veiled author avatar. Well, except for me, of course, but I’ve been looking for a way to escape this hell, and you’d make an excellent replacement…”

What is opfimistic?

Dear god, Jeff, no! Two stupidity singularities colliding like that would probably destroy the universe!

In panel 2 Batton Thomas has changed significantly. It doesn’t look remotely like the guy in panel 1.