Crankshaft by Tom Batiuk and Dan Davis for February 05, 2025

After enduring Hairy Dangle’s presence that would be a breath of fresh air.

The question no one seems to be asking is, what would Mr. B Natural think of all this?

The other question no one seems to be asking is ’Where’s Cranky, and why doesn’t this whining bore go back to Unfunny Wunkerbunk, featured elsewhere on this site?’

I guess everyone’s too dumb to keep their wet cases open so they can air out?

how about the swim team’s lockers

Crankshaft has turned into “Hey, remember when I wrote another strip about other stuff?”

Oy!

What smells worst ? How about a Hockey locker room in a 75yr. Old Hockey arena !

I like reminiscing. Someday soon (next week?), we can fondly remember when America was a democracy.

Notice how they walked down the stairs, through a hallway, and out of the church—something that should take a couple minutes—while Harry delivers two sentences of his monologue. Makes me wonder what else was said that didn’t make it into the word Zeppelins. My best guess is Lizard Lil saying, over and over, “Please stop! I’m bored!”

Still doesn’t stink like Harry’s garage full of rotting turkeys.

Or this rotting turkey of a “story.”

off to read luann to see if its worse then this

Lest he can still smell!!!!

I have to admit when it makes you feel sorry for Lillian, the writing must be pretty persuasive.

Here’s a dollar…move up a couple of streets

Why didn’t he just end Crankshaft and continue Funky Winkerbean? We saw more of ed there than we have in his own strip lately!

The problem … we did not know what was creating the toxic smell. We originally thought someone forgot to put their unsold band turkey in the freezer.

Crankshaft used to be good when it was about Crankshaft

Is Dinkle suffering from macrocephaly? His head seems out of proportion with the rest of his body. Does Dinkle also have nightmares of children chasing after him with piñata sticks? They bust his head open, and band candy falls out?

Boy, has this title gone downhill. Why is the cartoonist featuring ‘Crankshaft’ characters talking about old gags from his other title that was canceled? Talk. Talk. Talk. Where’s the action? Where’s Ed Crankshaft?

Davis gives this garbage the exact amount of care it deserves – literally copy/pasting the same Dinkle clip-art in panels one and three.

“Here, step into my car. It’ll give you a rough idea of what the smell is like.”

Still doesn’t stink the joint up like a week’s worth of Lizard Lil/Dinkleberg meanderings.

Did we ever settle what kind of car Lizard Lil drives? I figure the orange blob is Dinkle’s East German Batiukmobile, but the red car with the fin… a ‘50s vintage T-bird?