Recent Comments

1. 6 days ago on Crankshaft

   I don’t seem to care about commenting as much as you. Before yesterday, I had gone twelve days without posting a comment on GoComics. I doubt GoComics will take away your ability to comment. Witness how badly the ComicsKingdom screwed the pooch when they changed the way people comment. They lost many of their commenters to other websites. If they do take away your ability to comment, you can always post a Crankshaft comment elsewhere. Scot Free. (wink wink).

   This is what I’m concerned about. What happens if you lose your ability to choose and maintain a list of favorites? What happens when your free “my comics page” goes away because you’re not a premium subscriber? So much for having a daily feed where you can simply click an arrow to advance to the next title. What are you going to do? List your favorites on a piece of paper and pick them from the ‘Comics A-Z’ list one-by-one? Wash, rinse, repeat. Not me. I’ll pay the $34.99. I spend that much on a couple bottles of wine, and they sure as heck don’t last me an entire year. $34.99 works out to less than ten cents a day, 67¢ cents a week, $2.92 a month.

   What if you’re limited to viewing one month of an archive?

2. 7 days ago on Crankshaft

   Hi, Mr. Bill. Welcome back.

   Not deleted. Worse, I fear they are banned. The comment I posted in that thread still appears on my profile page. If the original poster’s comment was deleted, my comment would no longer exist either. I checked out the OPs profile. All ten comments listed on that page were copies of what they posted here. The OP posted this same comment in the discussions of multiple comic strip titles. My guess is the moderators weren’t too keen on the attempted write-in campaign and imposed a time-out. The OP protested the price change too hard and paid a different kind of price. For their sake, I hope it’s not permanent, because it would really suck for a premium subscriber to be permanently banned from commenting.

   I don’t know if you had a chance to read my reply to you before it disappeared from view. To answer the question you had, here’s what you get with a premium subscription.

   gocomics.Com/help/why-upgrade-to-premium-ad-free-subscription

   You can find the link to this webpage on your ‘My Account’ tab under the ‘Subscription’ section. Click the link ‘Learn more about premium.’

   I, too, am curious to see how free subscribers will be affected.

3. 7 days ago on Crankshaft

   Mr. Bill, I went through a GoComics free trial a couple of years ago. At the time, I didn’t think the limited perks were worth $19.99 a year and canceled. I could still view the archives and follow an unlimited number of titles in my feed. Ads are easy to block with the right browser/extension. @jlfish must be getting a $5 discount as a long time subscriber.

   Here’s what you get with a premium subscription.

   gocomics.Com/help/why-upgrade-to-premium-ad-free-subscription

4. 18 days ago on Tank McNamara

   Jerrah has three main goals as the Dallas Cowboys owner. Winning comes in third. His goals are:

   1.) Relevance. Nothing is more important to Jerry than appearing in the news. Why else have all those lengthy contract negations that cause roster issues later?

   2.) Profit. Does any other NFL team charge fans to tour the team’s facilities?

   3.) Winning championships.

   What a jerk.

5. 18 days ago on Tank McNamara

   The Dallas Cowboys have the longest current NFC Championship game drought. It has been thirty years since the Cowboys last appeared in an NFC Championship game.

6. 23 days ago on Crankshaft

   That would be nice. I’d also welcome the reintroduction of the zoom function that disappeared after one of the upgrades several years ago.

7. 23 days ago on Crankshaft

   I’m still waiting for the nightmare part. Wouldn’t God talking to you be considered a good thing?

   Scenes we’d like to see: On, Monday. Instead of boarding the ark with Dinkle, the band members prefer to take their chances with the storm and an almost certain death. Dinkle sails off alone.

   There. Finally. A fitting nightmare for Dinkle. Nobody wants to follow “The World’s Greatest Band Director”.

8. 23 days ago on Crankshaft

   Somewhere, Ed Crankshaft is having a nightmare that he’s being phased out of his own strip.

   Unfortunately, it’s a not a dream. It’s reality. (sad face emoji)

9. 23 days ago on Crankshaft

   I wish Davis wouldn’t recycle so much artwork. I thought this was a repeat of yesterday’s strip.

   From a certain viewpoint, this is a repeat of yesterday’s strip.

10. 23 days ago on Crankshaft

    I see. I never thought of it that way, but if that’s what they were trying to do, they made a boo-boo. 2023 is synchronized only because the archive began after February 29. Funky Winkerbean first appeared on March 27, 1972, a leap year, just like 2024. If they wanted to align Sundays, they should have used last year.

    Thankfully it’s not like Foxtrot Classic where the Sunday comics are totally missing.