Crankshaft by Tom Batiuk and Dan Davis for September 07, 2023

Try pickle ball, not so much running,,,.

“Yes, call a sub and tell them to torpedo us!”

Okay, but what book are they reading? Maybe the book should have been awkwardly held up so we readers could see the title, even though it’s completely irrelevant to the day’s strip.

Is this Generic Blonde Woman someone we’ve seen before this week? It’s so hard to keep track of them all. (Actually, wait, do we even care who she is?)

Why does a book club need bylaws? Isn’t it just an informal gathering of pseudo-intellectuals trying to impress other people?

Amazon lets you call an audible.

One must ask, why would you keep mercilessly plugging Ulysses?

If you miss a meeting you have to order lunch? That’s an odd rule even for this strip.

Sports are always more important!

So in the absence of Crankshaft, blonde lady will play the role of the brain damaged person?

Is the green shirt woman a sub for Crankshaft? Is that why he’s not here?

Ulysses was the most boring book I ever read.

The entire point of a book club is to voluntarily read a book and discuss your opinion about the work with other people. How would a sub do that for you? A sub won’t have your brain or your life experiences to formulate your opinion on your behalf.

A lame ‘toon…without Crankshaft!

Boring………………..

You know, at this point I’d actually rather watch the movie “Book Club” than follow this arc for another two days, but I’m sure Batiuk is building up to something dramatic. There’s no way he would waste an entire week’s worth of strips on Lillian and company making non-jokes and talking about everything other than the “naughty” book they’ve been trying to plow through for three years…is there?

Welcome back to book club gag-a-day. I knew the blonde would be asking the questions today. It’s a roundtable discussion (albeit without an actual table). I’m going to go out on a limb (a real sturdy one) and predict it’s the Shining Twins’ turn tomorrow.

Lillian, a nonagenarian or centenarian, plays tennis… ya, sure! Does she also jump the net when she wins? She’ll break her hip.

I thought I saw crankshafts hat in the background

I’d never miss a meeting of the Lilliopsaurus Book Group. I mean, I’ve never gone to one, but I’ve never missed the experience either.

Isn’t “Ulysses” something like 500 pages long? I am wondering how small the print is in those thin books that they are holding.

Haha! (＾▽＾)