Recent Comments

1. about 6 hours ago on Crankshaft

   So, just to recap…this week was dedicated to showing how Mopey Pete—a 35-year-old (minimum) writer who was once at the top of the DC and Marvel pecking order, who penned successful Hollywood screenplays, and who recently became half-partner in a pizza shop—still lives like a college student with all the nerd-adjacent stereotypes in place. As for Ed, he made four one-panel appearances and delivered a total of four lines of dialogue.

   Whose turn is it to headline a book signing next week>?

2. about 7 hours ago on Crankshaft

   “By the way…if we’re both up here at dinnertime, who’s running the pizzeria downstairs?”

3. 1 day ago on Crankshaft

   Are you joking, Min-dull? Your fiance’s only worn the same two or three shirts in all the years the two of you have been together! Mopey could keep his entire wardrobe in one of those cardboard boxes!

4. 2 days ago on Crankshaft

   Okay, so they’re both in their thirties minimum, he lives alone, she lives with her parents and grandfather, they’ve been going out for nearly a decade and been engaged for several years/since last Fall, and this is the first time Min-dull has seen Mopey’s bedroom?

5. 3 days ago on Crankshaft

   Even in central Ohio, can spending your life with a thirtysomething (fortysomething? Only Timemop knows for sure), droopy-lidded, nerdy comic book writer-turned-pizzeria owner who lovingly hangs superhero posters on his apartment walls but can’t be bothered to buy furniture (except for his Flash Cosmic Treadmill) really be considered “taking the win”?

6. 3 days ago on Crankshaft

   Umm, you moved back to Westview in 2008, Mopey, at which time you were writing Superman for DC Comics after leaving Marvel. At no point in the 16 years that followed did you think to schlep over to the Columbus IKEA to buy a couple of pieces of furniture? And you said back in 2019 that you blew the engagement ring money trying to win Min-dull a stuffed engagement tiger, remember?

   I think I have it now…Ed’s purpose this week is to act as Greek chorus as Batiuk unleashes unresolved FW plotline after unresolved FW plotline.

7. 3 days ago on Crankshaft

   I know, I’ve watched Uncle Scrooge on “DuckTales.”

8. 4 days ago on Crankshaft

   Look up the life story of Hetty Green sometime.

9. 4 days ago on Crankshaft

   Look who can’t figure out replying to comments. LOL

10. 4 days ago on Crankshaft

    It’s clear that the writer/co-creator of the strip has forgotten, as today’s appearance is only Ed’s fifth so far in the month of June.