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1. 2 days ago on Crankshaft

   So this week the twins are in their early 20s, while a few weeks ago they were 12. It’s called (bad) writing!

2. 3 days ago on Crankshaft

   This crap again? I guess 2 weeks of Cranky made me foolishly think Tom had stopped the garbage infestation and gone back to basics.

3. about 1 month ago on Crankshaft

   Tomorrow’s script:Panel 1: Crankshaft loads the VHSPanel 2: He watches itPanel 3: Closeup on his face “Who TF is Dead St. Lisa and why is she giving advice to Les Moore’s ‘future wife?’”

   And the conquest of Crankshaft by the lesser strip will be complete.

4. about 1 month ago on Crankshaft

   I mean, if you include ALL of JJ’s “troll buddies,” that’s still probably thrice as many people as those who find Batiuk’s attempts at intelligent writing amusing.

5. about 1 month ago on Crankshaft

   Someone needs to sock him right in that smug panel three mug.

6. about 1 month ago on Crankshaft

   I mean, he was “tactfully” screaming at them yesterday, so sure, why not just be sarcastic today.

   They’re children who are trying their best. They’ve known this guy a week and all he’s done in incessantly bully them.

7. about 1 month ago on Crankshaft

   Since he was screaming at them yesterday, maybe they missed the “diplomacy” today

8. about 1 month ago on Crankshaft

   Let’s view this from the student’s perspective for a moment:

   Their regular Band Director goes out on emergency leave and the Industrial Design teacher steps up to take his spot. Now, its a challenge for the kids – working with someone who presumably has enough of a background that the district trusts them to wrap up the semester and even keep the band’s concert on the schedule, but probably hasn’t done anything like this before. So they work with this teacher and don’t really get better – routine, the knowledge, everything is missing, but heck they do their best.

   Then, randomly, one day a very old man whom they may know (but probably don’t) as some guy who is part of a church choir shows up a week before the pageant, the industrial arts teacher, who was probably throwing everything they had into this, is kicked to the curb, and then this old man alternates between screaming at them and making vicious sarcastic insults.

   What is wrong with Batty that he thinks Dinkle should be considered anything other than a horrible monster who would have (justly) been fired 8 minutes into this farce?

9. about 1 month ago on Crankshaft

   It’s so strange – like he went to this school – and volunteered – for the sole purpose of being a vicious bully to a bunch of children he’s never met. There won’t be a redemption arc. He’ll just say mean things to them until we see them play bad at the concert, where he will be mean again (only publicly) and somehow we’re supposed to be “that Dinkle! What a card!”

10. about 1 month ago on Crankshaft

    Hahaha! It’s funny because the main character has experienced absolutely no emotional growth over his long life and remains the same needlessly cruel POS bully today that he was 50 years ago!