Crankshaft by Tom Batiuk and Dan Davis for March 18, 2025

Mark Mothersbaugh of Devo was from Akron. He sang about it: “My hometown is more than a town to me/It’s more than plain, it’s a city of Pain, it’s one big factory!” It’s enough to bring a tear to your eye! And speaking as someone who lived in northern Ohio, the air frequently did bring tears to your eyes. Especially if you were downwind of Tiny Tom eating pumpernickel, hoo-wee!

Meanwhile, in the next booth over, three elderly men and longtime Dale Evans A.M. customers are lying face down in their French toast, scrambled eggs, and hot Wheatena with milk meals, the sheer inanity of what they’ve been forced to overhear having driven them to commit breakfast seppuku.

My father lived in Akron before WW II. Seeing this makes me understand why getting drafted was one of the happiest days of his life.

You wouldn’t need to go there to be a baker.

Ha ha ha! ROFL! This is comic gold!! “Become a cartoonist!” Oh, Batty, this is your funniest strip yet!

From Montoni’s to Dale Evans.. one heart attack to another..

Just theenks that you wents to watches Jurassic Park movie and then you gets to see Crichton Micheal narrating boring life story. Where’s the dinysaurs? Brings the dinysaurs back already!

Boooorrrriiinnnggg

Ain’t Batton a personification of Tom Batiuk himself? Anyway, I’m enjoying the storyline!

Not that interested in your autobiography.