Crankshaft by Tom Batiuk and Dan Davis for February 26, 2023

FYI: Since Dinkleberg showed up at St. Spires to apply for the position of church organist/choir director in March of 2021 over in “the other strip,” never once have he and the choir biddies been depicted as rehearsing or performing virtually. Every time we’ve seen them was live and en masse. But what’s two years’ worth of continuity compared to Batiuk hilariously substituting a letter in the phrase “digital divide”?

It’s all bits and bytes in the universe of life.

They can afford to have a pipe organ in that church?

The pipes on our church’s organ are ornamental only: the electric organ’s speakers are hidden by them.

The pipe organ was manufactured by the Reuter Organ Company of Lawrence KS. The lady sent to service it is a bit delayed due to a car accident.

Well this strip is only 2 years too late.

Did I miss something? What happened at the choir competition?

Crankshaft has disappeared!

I hope that we fully recover…..

I guess this strip has pretty much become Funky Winkerbean II. Ed hasn’t been in it all week!

I find it interesting that Dingle doesn’t say it’s great to be having live PERFORMANCES again; he says it’s nice to be having live REHEARSALS again. Shows you what he really enjoys about being a choir director.