Crankshaft by Tom Batiuk and Dan Davis for February 03, 2025

“I mean, what if those kids refuse to risk death by exposure to perform for my greater glory? The ingrates!”

Well, at least Ed got to make Sunday appearance.

Oh, boy! Just when I thought they wouldn’t dredge up a piece of FW jetsam even more annoying than Batton Thomas!

I don’t know how to break this to you, Harry, but you’re no longer a music educator! There’s no reason for you to be thinking about OMEA anymore, and certainly no reason for you to attend the conference! Not that this will stop Batiuk.

Why aren’t you used to this, Dinkle? It snows from Veterans Day to Easter in this strip! I lived in Lorain County, and it ain’t ANTARCTICA

Sit Harry and Batty down together… I’d like to see who can “out-self-congratulate” the other…

What? This guy again? Of all the characters it has to be him? What happen to Batton Thomas story? Did thems runs outta pizzas? Did ol Skippy couldn’t bears it anymore and run away?

Unfair to fans of Cranky. GoComics is running Unfunny Wunkerbunk, so why invade Crank’s space?

On the bright side, maybe the bus will swerve off the road and into a ravine, and ALL of us will be getting what we want!

With my whole heart, I hate Harry Dinkle.

I would bow out if it’s a blizzard. But that would be common sense.

“…a blinding snowstorm!”

With luck, it’ll also be deafening.

Harry is retired from being a high school music director, why is he worried about taking a “hundred, or, so” high school band members to some convention?And, even if he weren’t, who would he get for a female chaperone?

Here we go :

54-16-5

i got spurs dingle dankle dinkle

A blinding snowstorm a week away?

Oh good, we cut away from Batton’s life story to get to Dingle. Can’t wait for 4-8 weeks from now when we get part 47 of Batton’s story being told over pizza.

That is stress…..buddy…….Crank can help you with that!!!!!

So did Cranky destroy any ice sculptures this year?

will Crankshaft be the bus driver? inquiring minds want to know

I was in Columbus ONCE,years ago…two very big restored theatres should hold the bands. One still has the original organ

Sarcasm – Boy, this is interesting.

Isn’t it fortunate that he’s retired, and doesn’t have to worry about that anymore?

Saturday, I wrote, I hope this bloviating Batton Thomas nonsense is over for now, and we get a completely different story arc on Monday. Anything but more of this. Please.

The second I submitted that comment, I had a gut feeling the next story arc would feature Harry Dinkle. Today’s strip confirms that, in the new Cranky Shafterbean, any story arc not featuring Ed Crankshaft will be just as bad as the story arc that preceded it.

Harry Dinkle, bleah!

Haha! This is funny because Dinkle doesn’t realize that everything he does is always an unmitigated success. Harry Dinkle lives in a universe governed by a benevolent creator, Tom Batiuk. TB will never allow one of his favorite Mary Sues, to fail. Ever.

While Dinkle is conversing with Loathsome Lil about nightmares that will never come to pass, I would like to share one of my dreams. In the midst of a blinding snowstorm, the students grow weary of Dinkle and his obnoxious, overbearing cruelty. They decide to give him a much-needed retirement by performing an Eskimo funeral, casting him adrift on an ice floe headed down the Scioto River. Please excuse me while I stare out the window and let out a contented sigh.

i bet if you interview batiuk he will say hes a gag a day strip guy but in the next sentence he will also hes a serious writer lucky he had this career but not a jim davis career lot of money horrible work