I see we’re setting up for a rip off of the Atticus Finch speech at the jail, only this time it will be plodding, ham-fisted, and involve the whole town telling Tom…oops, I mean Lillian how great she is and maybe she should even get an award.
I’m going to peace out for a while. This “Burnings” story is pure trash and it looks like it’s going to run all the way up to the cancellation of Crankshaft at the end of the year. Its a shame – I always enjoyed Crankshaft as part of my daily comics read and Batty’s decision to turn it into the inferior (and less successful) Funky Winkerbean is disappointing. It’s a shame he couldn’t be proud of his actual talent as a gag-a-day guy and decided he had to be Super Serious Cartoon Guy, which he absolutely is not good at.
We both know perfectly well where he’s going to take it. Softball commentary, poor plotting and pacing, tell don’t show, and pontificating by Les, his favorite mouthpiece, followed by the end of the strip.
This is some milquetoast garbage. “The protesters felt there were things in the books kids shouldn’t see?” Batty got a write up in 2 newspapers for this “brave” storyline?
I see we’re setting up for a rip off of the Atticus Finch speech at the jail, only this time it will be plodding, ham-fisted, and involve the whole town telling Tom…oops, I mean Lillian how great she is and maybe she should even get an award.