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

Uh-oh, someone’s generic little blue pills are kicking in again.

And, of course, the women band members smile delightedly at the prospect that Mort Winkerbean will now be leaving them alone as he hits on Lillian the Lizard.

Those are some of the youngest nursing home residents you’ll ever see.

That’s exactly what you have there, Mort, but what about Lillian?

Morton Winkerbean, Undertaker: I THINK WE’VE GOT AN EATER!

Ed: I’ll get the oven on!

The “JAZZ BAND” nods hungrily.

You guys are getting stranger and stranger – If I was a relative of yours, I think that I might call in a wellness check on you! LOL…

Oh looks. It is Funky Weenkerbean in Crankyshaft komix.

HA HA HA HA HA HA! ….. wait, what?

Hey look it’s Funky’s dad. Let’s see if he tries to sexually assault Lil.

I confess. I thought this couldn’t get any worse.

Yet another “beloved character from Funky WInkerbean” is here to push out Cranky: Mort the weird and canonically perverted letch!

Nobody cares. Where’s Crankshaft?

How could anybody pass that show up? Get me some tickets!

Girl??????

3rd panel, we did, where?

If Lillian is joining the nursing home’s traveling band, shouldn’t she be required to be a resident of said nursing home? For liability reasons and such? What if the Bedside Manor bus crashes on the way to a “gig”?

What happened to a quarter inch from reality, TB? You’ve moved well past reality and into fantasy.

If all those knowing smirks the jazz band members are exchanging means that Lillian is in for cruel hazing, I’m all in favor of that.

even the hardware story was better then this ?where have the komix police d.q and chef tommy been hiding ?

Girl? Woman most definitely……

Ridiculous!

Old Maid singer to be correct. (Can she sing?)

I can’t see the humor of this slurred, snide remark toward Lillian. Why can’t men be respectful toward women anymore?

This is feeling like those Family Guy/Star Wars specials, where they eventually started running out of the Family Guy cast to portray the Star Wars characters and just threw in a bunch of characters from Seth MacFarlane’s other shows.

For the uninitiated, the big bands in the 1940s had either a male or female singer or both. The females were of course called girl singers, and the males were just as obviously called boys singers. Doris Day, Helen Forrest, Jo Stafford, Dinah Shore, and Peggy Lee, among a host of others, got their starts as girls singers in big bands.

I think today’s setup could not be accomplished in three panels so it probably will be continued tomorrow when we will get the great joke.

Today’s strip kind sorta reminds me of the doris Day, Les Brown reunion.

I forget. Was Mrs. Miller’s first name Lillian?