Crankshaft by Tom Batiuk and Dan Davis for June 29, 2024

Though he still may yet be corpulent for a 60 year old WW2 vet living in 2024, Crankshaft still needs to eat food too. Where’s Crankshaft?

Yes you can, Generic Blonde #5! Just don’t tell Mopey Pete that you’ll gain fifty pounds by the end of the year.

At 2nd panel I thought probably be a pizza from Montoni’s.

“By the way…if we’re both up here at dinnertime, who’s running the pizzeria downstairs?”

So, just to recap…this week was dedicated to showing how Mopey Pete—a 35-year-old (minimum) writer who was once at the top of the DC and Marvel pecking order, who penned successful Hollywood screenplays, and who recently became half-partner in a pizza shop—still lives like a college student with all the nerd-adjacent stereotypes in place. As for Ed, he made four one-panel appearances and delivered a total of four lines of dialogue.

Whose turn is it to headline a book signing next week>?

Sure you can Mindy … you live over a pizzeria … are you about to throw away good food with starving folks on the world?

Cranky ordered Chinese, but the delivery guy from DoorDash couldn’t find the place…

She’s really ragging the poor guy this week. Tell her to hit the road.

They’d have been better off eating the lone item in the fridge—a box of Arm & Hammer.

Welcome to your new life, lumpy mopey Pete… now you know what it’s like to be continuously pecked at by ducks…

But she’s smiling.

That’s what YOU think!

So they is owns and runs this pizza joint but they eats cold stale pizza from the fridge? What? WHAT? IT’S CALLED EATING?

Well, it’s sure not called writing.

the pizza box monster is more a ladys man then halfspeed pete

If you don’t like the way I’m livin’

You can just leave this baggy eyed comic boy alone

OH NO!!!! THE WORLD IS COMING TO AN END. THERE IS NO CRANKSHAFT IN TODAYS OFFERING. CALL 911, CALL THE NATIONAL GUARD, CALL THE FBI.

clean the cobwebs blonde

,,,,too tired to cook??

Why not, it’s free. Just change up between pizza, Calzone, Breadsticks and pepperoni sticks. The possibilities are endless.

Next project; Mindy takes Pete grocery shopping, and, also stops for cookware, and, dinnerware.