Crankshaft by Tom Batiuk and Dan Davis for September 15, 2024

For once I like the way Mopey Pete thinks! Naturally Min-dull’s comment is matchless and sparks no interest.

There’s never an arsonist outside on the stairway when you need one, is there?

The next-door neighbor to this location is Ed Crankshaft. Ed has had so many grilling and other fire incidents that past strips show that his house is under 24 hour surveillance. Therefore, the fire department has this location under 24 hour surveillance as well.

Lillian has been selling Fahrenheit 451 specifically on a “Banned Books” table since at least last year without any incident.

Lillian’s store has been shown to survive intact far into the future from the last strips of Funky Winkerbean.

If you pay attention to this strip enough, you know all of this, so you know that there’s no actual risk at stake. Tom Batiuk has already told us the resolution to this story.

On the less-gloomy side, we see Les doing some actual physical work-and for the second day in a row! Poor baby, he’s going to be all tuckered out!

Those are hardcover books. According to Amazon, you can buy a hardcover copy of Fahrenheit 451 for $17.29 plus tax. Assume that Creepy Les needed 150 copies, with 6% tax, that means he spent $2,749.11. Plus shipping, if he doesn’t have Amazon Prime. By the way, did he ever take Cayla on that promised vacation to China?

Lester could of saved some $$ by purchasing paperback

Shut up, Mopey Peat! Go back to your failing pizza store!

21 days in row WITHOUT seeing old Crank! YaY!

But who’s the arsonist?

Geez. What is the point here even.

1. Them books ain’t even actually banned, for they is just not in one schools syllabus. That is all. And now it suddenly is become banned books from some days ago?

2. Point 1 is means that nobody will bothers to burning any bookstores because it was always was is and will mostly continues to be available in everywhere book stores.

3. And obveeously them books was and is and will continues to be available to orders online.

4. As they not part of syllabus it is means them students is no get a single question from them books for exams.

5. Point 4 is means that they will fails the exams, unless Less Almighty has veto power to makes his own syllabus as whatever he is likes and his own question papers and gives his own school degrees too as per his whims and fancies.

5. So from 1 to 4 what is the point even, of all this clowning around with so called banned books (which ain’t even banned in first place) supposed “story line”? It’s called righthing?

6. Yes, komix audience is has brains and we is intelliGent and is likes to sees theengs that is make some sense. Me is not get what on earth is actually going on in this “story”. If any one of you is understanding what on earth is going on on it then please lets me knows. Thanks you.

Thinking……..way to much!!!!!!

With Crankshaft next door they won’t needs any other arsonists. But then he is becomes disappear here and not to be seen anywhere these days so maybe it really safe place eh.

Only four smirks? Pete and generic blond two need to get with the program.

Or…given the books are for specific students in his class, they could have just not put all the books out for display. Or ordered the books directly from an online retailer that would ship them directly to students. This is just people acting stupidly and unrealisticly so the writer can have his “ very special story.”

This is The Burnings™, the global apocalypse that the final week of FW said brought civilization as we know it to an end, clearing the site for the rise of a new world in which we recognize all humanity as our nationality? I’m not buying it.

Of course we know from Batty’s Daily Cartoonist interview that he didn’t originally even intend the apocalyptic event to be fire; he had planned on “the floods” and made a spur-of-the-moment change to “The Burnings” while typing out the script. Which makes me think he had no idea what the apocalyptic event would be; he just wanted to hint that there had been one before the rise of the New World Order based on the Dead St. Lisa trilogy. Now he’s going back to fill in the gaps, and as is his style, he’s mixing Steven Spielberg ambition with Ed Wood budget.

There’s like 100 copies. He had maybe 12 kids in his class. Are we to believe he spent $1500 of his own money to get kids to read a book?

A banned book about banned books, go figure. I have read the book, and it is one of my favorite books by Ray Bradbury.

SHEESH……………holy crap!

Nazi Germany…..

The same was said back when the printing press was invented providing books and papers for the masses to read without oversight from the church or the kings. Someone will always come along and try to dominate everyone else.

Enough go back to Funky

No, Mindy, that should be “Leave the room, Pete”!

Holy sophomoric sightings, Batman! Today’s Sunday strip looks like something that came out of a high school newspaper. The mediocre artwork. The stilted dialog. The disappointment.

Sorry, Batyuk. The product doesn’t match your bluster.

(Mocking singsong) Ha ha ha ha! Batyuk bragged to the media about a crappy strip.

LoL

It is there, where they burn books, that they eventually burn people.

Gee, if there were only someplace in Westview where the kids could pick the books up so they wouldn’t have to go how many miles it is to Centerville—oh, waitaminut! Mopey Pete owns a pizza parlor in Westview. Why can’t the kids pick ’em up there?

This story is just so stinking contrived. Batiuk should be ashamed of himself!

Another day, another real-world bomb threat in Springfield, Ohio from a MAGA lunatic.

Better step up your efforts, Batty. I don’t think your fellow Buckeyes are getting the point.

I give up

Irish53 less than a minute agoHow about don’t be a pain in the a$$ Les, and just assign something different.

“The store is safe.”

Are you sure about that? Are you absolutely sure?

C’mon, GoComics, this is the second time in three days that today’s comics haven’t loaded yet.

I thought maybe someone decided to pull the plug on Crankshaft early. Nope, none of the GoComics strips are here yet.

Why the delay in todays comics?

Thank you, Little Petey Sunshine…

The Doublenut Twins are teenagers again?