Crankshaft by Tom Batiuk and Dan Davis for February 23, 2025

If he was, he’d have superhuman cleaning lady powers, wouldn’t he? Isn’t that how that all is supposed to work according to comic book logic?

Where’s Crankshaft?

Was Tom bitten by a radioactive moron?

“What’s got into you? We just cleaned this place back in 2014!”

Too bad Batiuk wasn’t bitten was a radioactive Bill Watterson.

Someone is coming to look at the place and thinking of buying it.

I knew it was too good to be true. So where’s, uh, Crankster?

Their Silver Age comics are full of silverfish.

Flash? Irony Man? But no Starbucks Jones? BOOOO!

Nice Iron Man statue! Where would one even get one?

Crankshaft would join in but his back is hurting

Back to Mr. skunk head again…

I like the Flash and Iron Man artwork, nice job!

Let it go……they will never see it!!!!

Harry asks what’s got into DSH John? Hint: whatever you do, don’t sniff that Flash figurine. There’s a reason DSH is polishing it with such fervor.

One of the fun things about Dangerous Dan’s copypasta “art” is the way Harry (panel three) and DSH John (panel five) both seem to be staring blankly into space. “Yoo-hoo, I’m over here!!”

No more comic books…please.

In the one panel where the clip-art of DSH John and Crazy Harry are shown at more or less the same scale, they appear to be the same height. So why should DSH expect Harry to be able to dust a shelf that he “wasn’t able to reach”?

Batty came so close to sensible dialog here. All he had to do was stop at “dust the top shelves” and leave off the “that I wasn’t able to reach.” But those word Zeppelins aren’t going to fill themselves…

It’s a possibility.

From today’s Comics Curmudgeon:

Wait, why does John need Crazy Harry’s help? By Spider-Man logic, if he had been bitten by a radioactive cleaning lady, shouldn’t he have gained the proportional strength and powers of a cleaning lady, including access to common cleaning lady tools like stepladders and the foresight to deploy them? Or are we actually operating on real-world logic, and after suffering a tragic bite he’s just feeling increasingly feeble and woozy, due to radiation poisoning?

This store is in Westview, not Centerville, right? There is no reason to believe that Ed Crankshaft has ever been in this store or knows these people, right? So today’s strip is just another step towards replacing Crankshaft with a revived Funky Winkerbean, right?

Bill Dickey: OPEN UP, LARDASS! YOU DO NOT WANT ME TO BURN ANOTHER COMIC BOOK STORE DOWN!!

Huh. So all those times DSH John said he was ‘polishing his Iron Man’ he was being literal. Who knew?

The Amazing Swifferman!

Next time he should buy a Swifter with the extended handle.