Recent Comments

1. 14 days ago on Bad Machinery

   Wish I could have stuck around in the comments section longer, since I did enjoy being here (until I didn’t), but… still sorry this won’t be updating every day again. Ah, well, at least there’s new content still coming. (Thanks much for that!)

2. 16 days ago on Crankshaft

   It’s like Tom WANTS us to snark on the strip… I mean, c’mon, this is like an open invitation.

3. 17 days ago on Crankshaft

   I’m pretty sure Ed’s been seen in the Komix Kollectible Korner at least once, with Jff and/or Mitch, but I’m not looking it up to verify. (If so, though, it was almost certainly after the “retiring” of Funky Winkerbean, so it still counts towards the replacement.)

4. about 1 month ago on Crankshaft

   “Robert Kane”? Like Bob Kane, the co-creator of Batman? (Though it’s only been in the last few years that DC finally started giving Bill Finger his much-deserved credit as co-creator; for decades DC would claim Kane as Batman’s only creator. Bob Kane was kind of a sleaze for that, honestly.)

5. about 1 month ago on Crankshaft

   Actually, he pretty much killed his mentor, “Pops” Clutch. He was taking Pops to the hospital in a school bus after a heart attack, but deliberately drove slowly to set a record for the most cars stuck behind the bus, thus leading to Pops’ demise.

6. about 1 month ago on Crankshaft

   Newspaper editors know that the second they cancel a strip, they’ll be flooded with complaints from readers. It usually takes something drastic (like, a Scott Adams meltdown) to get them to cancel ANY comic strip. This certainly isn’t going to do it.

7. about 1 month ago on Dinosaur Comics

   The ocean may not be capable of thought or murderous intent, but what about all the cephalopods that live in it?

8. about 1 month ago on Crankshaft

   Now even the characters are asking “Where’s Crankshaft?”.

   In the last panel, in addition to Totally Not Ed Crankshaft, we have Yet Another Generic Blonde Woman (but this one has glasses!), Barry Allen (the Silver Age Flash), and… I’m going to guess one of the twins (Emily or Amelia), who has chosen to be a child again this week. (Probably Emily, who has deaged herself to get away from Skip.)

9. about 1 month ago on Crankshaft

   Why do people read the comments section – which undoubtedly takes even more time than it takes to just read the comic – just so they can publicly fume and rage and make ugly remarks about other people’s comments?

10. about 1 month ago on Crankshaft

    Or George C. Scott in “Dr. Strangelove”: “I wish we had one of them doomsday machines.”