Crankshaft by Tom Batiuk and Dan Davis for June 25, 2024

Relax, Mindy! Big Spender Mopey will replace all those old boxes with the new ones you just schlepped up the stairs!

Tell me that you’re surprised this is her first visit to Mopey Pete’s lair. Tell me you can’t wait to see her shock and disappointment when she discovers that his “bed” is a sleeping bag on a leaky air mattress.

No one’s ever heard of second hand furniture, I guess…

More advice from our friend Ed, the Chairman of Cheap.

The dwelling of a professional writer who was DC and Marvel’s top scribe and the screenwriter behind at least one installment of the successful “Starbuck Jones” film franchise, ladies and gentlemen.

And Ed’s purpose for being there is…?

Obviously, to give all you trolls something to do! LOL…

Hit the yard sales, but don’t buy upholstered stuff that way. I bought a couch, and now I have to get rid of bed bugs. Thursday, when the high will be under 80, I’ll be outside weeding all day while the sprays and bug bombs are doing their thing inside.

Shouldn’t all the furniture be old pizza boxes?

The seasoned voice of experience!

Using boxes instead of milk crates?

Oh Look, the whiney nannies will be happy……THERE"S CRANKSHAFT!!

Cobwebs are back.

Crankshaft gets it. Economy.

wheres the pizzabox monster ?

I often used to use the plastic file crates as cheap furniture. I guess that is one step above old boxes.

I guess even millionaires can be cheapskates.

That’s how a lot of guys live. Pretty simple.

Shades of Archie Bunker, or Al Bundy.

“What are all these boxes?”

“Unsold copies of AtomiK KomiX! Finally good for something!”

MoPete, who was the highest paid komix writer ever, is now poor because… because the story Batty wants to write about him requires him to be poor. No further explanation will be provided. Don’t worry; when Batty wants him to fly himself, Jff and Homunculus Jff to KomiX Kon (for Batton Thomas’s very special book signing), the money will be back.