Crankshaft by Tom Batiuk and Dan Davis for March 01, 2023

Well, let’s see: The Lizard and the Vulture have already been taken. How about Captain Lost Her Marbles?

“But does he know the Muffin Man?” “The Muffin Man?” “The Muffin Man!”

I thought she and Pete were engaged. I remember a Zfunky strip where Mindy showed Cranky her engagement Tiger. Also, the twins were older last May in Funky. Just graduating high school.

Sure, I’ll bet he’s got nothing else to do, since he only writes for like eight comic books that have deadlines.

And wow, this really is turning out to be Funky Winkerbean II.

Here comes the grand re-opening of Montoni’s and “The Band Box”..

What do they say about small towns and neighborhoods, 6 degrees of separation, where not everybody knows everybody but somebody in your circle is connected to everybody in town. I grew up in a town that was one mile square, 20,000 people. 130 kids in my high school graduating class, but between my school, team, club, scout and church associations and those of my parents, every one in town seemed to know my name.

oh no…she’s going to have a cape!

He obviously doesn’t write this comic or the Rex Morgan comic

I’m biting my tongue (holding my fingers actually) over writing about Tom and Dan right now….

Lillian is a published author, but she can’t prepare a paragraph of her own bio?

Noooo! Not Mopey Pete! Anybody but saddle-bag face! Some characters deserved to expire with ‘Funky Winkerbean’. Here comes another one of those special ‘Funky Winkerbean’ appearances Tom Batiuk warned us about.

Where is the evidence that Mopey Pete is “a very good comic writer”? ‘The Amazing Mr. Sponge and Absorbing Junior’? ‘Atomic Ape and Charger Chimp’? ‘The Inedible Pulp’? Somebody is pulling our collective legs here.

Sigh………………………….

“Lillian McKenzie was conceived in a horrific eldritch ceremony during the Witches’ Sabbath, and upon her birth the coven took the infant out into the forest to be raised by wolves.”

Didnt this old broad sell a comic book for a lot of money

Yes, nobody is a better writer about ANYTHING than someone who writes comic books for a living. At least in this universe.

“He’s a comic book writer… ten years from now!”

I’m sure he is, but so was Stan Lee (RIP) & I wouldn’t want him to write my bio!