Crankshaft by Tom Batiuk and Dan Davis for May 27, 2024

Wait a minute! Where’s Masonne Jarre? Where’s Harry Dinkleberg? Where are the endless “wisecracks” about Claude Barlow’s music? We actually get Ed Crankshaft for a second day in a row, in what looks like an actual storyline? Cushlamachree!

On the other hand…why did Centerville resident Ed go all the way to Westview to look for a sponsor for his senior softball squad? Did the Dale Evans, Village Booksmith, Fast Fitness, Margo Lanes, and Cupcakes for Cats (formerly Centerville Hardware) all turn him down?

On the third hand…You gotta love that Mopey Pete tells Mindy they need to talk about sponsoring the team before agreeing to it, when last Fall he decided to quit his Atomik Komix gig and made a deal with Pizza Box Monsters to buy the shuttered Montoni’s without letting her know until essentially after the fact. Also, good to see Montoni’s is doing as brisk a business now as it did when Funky owned the joint.

Hmm…Let’s see – those two are struggling to keep a business afloat, while you having a job which you do nothing to earn the pay from. What a guy.

Has anyone told Batiuk that “pizza pie” doesn’t mean actual pies?

Pete, no you shouldn’t. This is on paper his strip. He can have you evicted

The Bad News Bears got Chico’s Bail Bonds to sponsor Walter Matthau’s / Boilermaker’s little league team.

…tsk… you have to offer dessert…

It’s great to see Cranky two days in a row! Hope that doesn’t mean we won’t see him again for much longer this time, though…

Let’s pause and appreciate the return of Crankshaft to the daily strip. This is the first time we’ve seen him during the week in over a month. So let’s hope for no more crankshaft cameos while the rest of the strip is mindless dribble about side characters that should’ve died long ago. Here’s to crankshaft, may he become the star of his comic strip once again.

That was cheesy but it felt good to say.

Thank God. Maybe Starbucks Jones died a natural death off stage.

3 characters, 2 of whom are Funkybeaners. Set in a Funky Town Pizza Place. We have Montoni Sighting! YEAH, Crankshaft is “back.” To sit in the background as the Weinerbeaners dominate the week. My guess: Next week is all Komix Korner.

SO! Crank’s not launching a BBQ grille into space. Bummer.

Nowwaitsaminute. Was not Mopey Guy and Mindy Gal works in some kinda Komix Kompany? What is they does workeeng in Monotonys? And when they is opens new branch in Centerville? Or is Cranky going to Weenkerbeanville?

Now hold on a minute. I expect to be involved in any sponsorship discussions. We better see me show up this week!

The SSSSPSS? Or as we call ‘em, “The Slow Leakers”? Anybody wanna see an outfielder break a hip? Ain’t the Guiding Light – whatever that means – still on?

So do I.

it’s a weekday…what’s he doing here?

Always a hitch…………very slow pitch…….

You might want to think this over. The t-shirts won’t cost that much, but the cost of walkers and players insurance is a real doozy.

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I would never sponsor a team that would have me as a sponsor.

Do they understand that to sponsor something means they have to fork over a lot of money? Do they have a lot of money to spare for that?

For a while last week I thought we were building to some kind of a, whatchacallit, high point or climax…and now, squish, I get totally let down. I must have low self-esteem, to keep coming back to a comic that treats me like dirt.

The antics and hi-jinks of Cranky and his geriatric cohorts playing baseball and coping with old-persons-playing-sports-problems for the next week or two almost sounds interesting.

Of course, this means we’ll actually be getting two weeks of Mopey & Mindy discussing whether or not to sponsor the team, instead.

Yipes it’s the SSSSSS Team.

“Sorry. We’ve already been tapped to cater the new ‘Starbuck Jones’ movie. Never mind that it’s three weeks from premiere, The Actor, Masonne Jarre, is in town lining up film score and services.”

Attaboy Cranky……..stand tall!

@Duck of Death, do you still read this title?

It seems Mopey Pete has inherited one of your favorite characters, rag, from Cory Winkerbean. Please drop a line to your old friends at SoSF sometime. We miss you.

Looks like Mopey McMopester and Min-duh returned

Pete: I should tell Darin to work for montoni’s again. He worked here before. I dont know sh*t about making pizzas.