Crankshaft by Tom Batiuk and Dan Davis for June 17, 2024

Where’s Crankshaft? Is he in that crowd?

That ticking we heard yesterday? It was a time bomb! And it’s about to go off!

It is amazing what a box of 120 color crayons can do, especially with the vapor budget you gave us.

“It’s hard to go wrong with Arial Bold in basic black! And just wait until those WW II searchlights find the Bandelorian bombers as they make a simulated attack run—”

(Insert Marvin-the-Martian style earth-shattering kaboom)

“Chinbeard, you should have put more simulation and less attack in those bombers!”

What, you were expecting Crankshaft himself to appear in this strip two days in a row? Oh, you poor, naive optimists.

So, I guess we’re to assume that over the past four weeks Masonne Jarre and Dinkleberg selected some “weird, atonal, and dissonant music” by Claude Barlow, purchased the rights, had a studio orchestra record said music, and slapped it on the Starsux Jones film print in time for this week’s premiere? Sure, makes perfect sense.

Wow, the place looks great. Nice artwork today Mr. Davis.

Wait till you see the bill for putting that stuff up there.

I see all the critics made it, or am I missing a few???

Wow a camera crew interviewing people asking why you all dressed up and here?

Hey, where’s Mrs. Mason Jaw? She wasn’t showing the last time she appeared, but this would be the perfect cliched moment for her to be nine months along and due to pop.

But first, Harry Dinkle appears to accept Mason Jaw’s overblown praise for writing and conducting the score.

What they done? They not even cleans up those giant cobwebs in the wall.

Land of the Smirks.

Is that the lady who should have jumped off the Hollywood sign?

Mason Jarr needs to be stuffed into a jar

Is that Dead St. Lisa being interviewed? Or at least her ghost?

No. He got tired of all you guys trashing him and went to read a comic book. lol

It’s your premiere at a theater where you are at least an investor. Didn’t you at least help the kids find somebody to stage it?

They have worked hard on that theatre.

I’m still wondering when the “cease and desist” order from Disney will arrive.

We will probably see him in the audience at some point in the next two weeks.

i said they would be back at the theater this week do i win a no prize from the marvel bullpen ?

Oh crap

There’s only one tuxedo in t he whole town.

As soon as the movie lights go out,every man in the audience gets to wear it for 15 minutes apiece

Where is Crankshaft? This is boring!

Where’s The Pizza Box Monster? We need him to liven things up!

(cs suffers BRAIN DAMAGE! and puts a gun to his head because of how f*#&@#g stupid this strip is)

Oh hey Marianne Winters is back after 2 long years of not appearing

will that guy jff try to get the cast to autograph his omnibus and if they dont creepy kid ghost will untie there shoelaces ?

If there was a god, Dan Davis would’ve been fired from his job at Andrews McMeel

but alas, He still steals from Chuck Ayers

The Crankshaft Days and Winkerbean N̶i̶g̶h̶t̶s̶ Weeks continue.

Glory hog Harry Dinkle isn’t front and center at the premier yet? Will he be arriving at the red carpet event via throne atop a parade float? (Oh, how I hate him)

How much did it cost to hire that “crowd”?

Hey,that town hasn’t had a movie premiere since BELA LUGOSI MEETS A BROOKLYN GORILLA !!