Crankshaft by Tom Batiuk and Dan Davis for March 25, 2023

And, the newspaper strip has been in reprints for how long now?

Seems the main advantage of producing a “slice of life” comic is that one doesn’t have to rack their brains coming up with a punchline or amusing conclusion.

“And soon we’ll all be DEAD. Enjoy your comic book!”

Batty will be buried with a comic ‘book’ in his ink-stained hands.

George Harrison: ♪ “All the world’s a birthday cake, so take a piece but not too much.” ♪

My body is getting older. My spirit keeps me young.

Out of sight Crankshaft mumbles “holy crap”!

I’m hoping for a sideways Sunday strip

true that…i still have 7000 comic books

Haven’t had a ‘Birthday Cake’ in decades but I’m still getting older, what’s up with that?

Yes. You’re old. Really, really, old. We get it. Just like yesterday.

That’s why I only eat one bite of birthday cake each year.

Sometimes we age faster. . .

Sometimes we age faster. . .

No, seriously… that’s Montoni’s (in)famous cake, which is so loaded with toxins that each bite takes a week off your life.

THE Superhero will be 85 years young this year.

Then don’t eat birthday cake!

So, as the years go by we get older, huh, Crazy? Boy, that’s the kind of deep observation that makes the geriatric ramblings at the Dale Evans booth sound like crackling repartee from the Algonquin Round Table! Can we please have the Sunday full panel shot of Boy J*ff sitting in the attic and reading his Spider-Man omnibus will eating Oreos off a plate, and then get back to those aforementioned ramblings?

Heck, the earliest comics I can recall reading new are “The Rainbow Doom” and “Superman in Superman Land”, both 1955.

Cake sux!

I still like getting a piece every now and then. Of cake.

It’s those darn Candles. Burning Wax fumes are very toxic.

Some characters have been around for nearly 100 yrs! Popeye was created in 1929 & The Phantom in 1936 & they’re still being published today!