Crankshaft by Tom Batiuk and Dan Davis for February 02, 2024

HARRY DINKLE, YOU PUT DOWN THAT KNIFE!

Leave off the “BR” and I think you’re on the right track, Harry.

They sound pretty leaden to the audience. It may have something to do with Batiuk’s word zeppelins.

Panel one: Words that have CERTAINLY been spoken in the history of the English language in a row. “Here they are, hot off a superior rating at—” Wait! This is AI, isn’t it? It’s ChatGPT and DALL·E, isn’t it?

Books are in the Dinkle Fiction section.

“The riot that followed went on for HOURS.”

I didn’t know there were all-brass-and-percussion bands until I learned recently that the Ohio State marching band is one.

They almost beat out Jethro Tull for a Grammy.

more cowbell

Where’s Crankshaft?

Harry’s brain is a heavy metal.

Do you realize that The Grammys cancelled the “Bes Polka record” category YEARS AGO!!??

This calls for a rebellion.Jimmy Sturr fans unite!!

He thinks just like Crank!!!!!!!

Once some decades back when some of my co-workers were into heavy metal music they would chide me for my frequent purchases of classical music CDs at a nearby store.

One day I came back in from lunch and told them that I had bought a heavy metal CD. “The Canadian Brass Quintet plays Mozart”.

Just a bit of a braggart, isn’t he?

I like how all of the visitors to his booth just read the whole book while standing there. Nobody actually buys it of course.

Bingle is full of **it.

Hooray for the Scapegoats.

This explains the sudden increase in sales of books about high school marching bands.

Hey guys, what kind of Kool Aid are you drinking………?

A “superior rating”? That’s like the highest, right? So Dinkle was actually a good band director?

If Dinkle was such a hot shot and the “World’s Greatest Band Director,” why was he stuck at West Armpit High School? Wouldn’t he work for a better school, say Big Walnut Tech? Or even gone off to the college ranks at schools like Enormous State University?

action is guarenteed tomorrow dinkle gets food delivered to his bookpile

The marching band didn’t have drums? I doubt that, so it was all brass and drums.

A quick visit to Grandpa Google informs us that a lot of metal bands have at least dabbled with horns. I suspect nobody other than Batty is surprised to learn this.

I saw a video of a Metal Band that used Cellos. . . .

Just bring back Funky. No one wants to see this here!

Where’s Drabble today some Luddites might ask

Did somebody switch comic strips on me? How is today’s strip and the last couple of day’s strips related in any way to Ed Crankshaft and his humorous antics?

What humorous antics?

So when is Harry going to start moaning about how his mother made him throw away all his silver-age comic books?

No tin for them. They all had brass ears.

So, the point here is that this goofball band director likes to send his band members into life threatening situations

Please tell me these are all brain farts Dinkle is experiencing as he lies dying in a hospice.