Crankshaft by Tom Batiuk and Dan Davis for January 24, 2025

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    Bill Thompson  about 14 hours ago

    “Okay, but I’m not Emily!”

    “That’s okay, I’m Knott Al-Heer!”

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    J.J. O'Malley  about 14 hours ago

    As I know Batiuk is aware, Silver Age DC Comics creators would often come up with a cover idea and then develop a story around said art (one editor’s obsession with gorillas on covers, thinking they sold better, led to a plethora of simian-themed tales in the late ’50s and early ’60s). This, of course, is all we ever get from Atomik Komix.

    That being said, you don’t write newspaper headlines ahead of the news or even feature articles themselves…and who on Earth wants to read about people hauling their own leaves to the landfill? Also, didn’t Emily prove herself capable of writing punny headlines during her November stint, or was that now Amelia, too?

    Please tell me this ends tomorrow.

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    wfhite  about 13 hours ago

    She interned with Frank and Ernest?

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    Gent  about 9 hours ago

    Can’t afford to collect leafs? What? Why anyone want to collect leafs? Is it like stamps or coins or sometheeng? Collecting leafs with trucks? What? What you collecting it for? Taking it to nearest compost manufacturing centre or sometheeng? Its called collecting?

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    sueb1863  about 8 hours ago

    “So how much does this job pay?”

    “Um – pay?”

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    Bill Thompson  about 8 hours ago

    Hey, pin-up boy! Why not have her write a real headline for some real news? Not that anything newsworthy happens in the Flunkyverse, but you could at least pretend to try.

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    Out of the Past  about 6 hours ago

    Scenes from a room where you don’t want to be.

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    Cabbage Jack  about 6 hours ago

    Batiuk on “Newspapers as they should be” is just as sad as Batiuk on “Comix as they should be.” With comix its all cover page, no story. With Newspapers its all headline, no story. Both terrible in every instance.

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    rockyridge1977  about 6 hours ago

    Waiting for a train to go or a bus to come,or a plane to go or the mail to come,or the rain to go or the phone to ring,or the snow to snow or waiting around for a Yes or Noor waiting for their hair to grow.

    Everyone is just waiting…………for Crank to come back!!!!!!!

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    Irish53  about 6 hours ago

    Zzzzzzzz…..

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    tcayer  about 5 hours ago

    Poor girl. A job with no future…

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    MuddyUSA  Premium Member about 5 hours ago

    Where is Cranky……..

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    lemonbaskt  about 5 hours ago

    crank is getting his annual physical from rex morgan then hes getting a steak platter at joes

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    Out of the Past  about 5 hours ago

    Skip has discovered he is a twin also. His long lost brother, O. G. Wotasnozzle, the creation of EC Segar (of Popeye fame) found him on the internet.

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    [Unnamed Reader - 14b4ce]  about 4 hours ago

    Pastis decries competition—-challenges Emily to duel

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    zendog13la  about 3 hours ago

    There now. Isn’t this more fun than ranting about free speech and book burning?

    Pass the popcorn and methadone.

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