Crankshaft by Tom Batiuk and Dan Davis for July 13, 2024

Ed’s down there holding the ladder and just saw a penny on the ground.

Tattered, smelly, sticky, with worn-out cushions and inadequate leg room—the customers will be drawn like flies, only with two legs and smaller wings.

Vintage seats are bad enough, but using a vintage wooden ladder is a bad idea. The chances of an accidental fall are . . . um, hm. Lovely weather today, isn’t it?

… Springs not guaranteed

[double feature] 36 HOURS TO KILL with HIS BROTHER’S WIFE

from the 1937 Merrie Melodies cartoon, She Was an Acrobat’s Daughter

Only vintage seats? Ain’t this whole theatre vintage? A most valuable ancient relic? A building of great vintage heritage? Why ain’t it declared a world vintage heritage site already? They is waits for it to be in ruins?

A better word might be “retro”.

“Vintage Seats” means that they are far too small for most modern people.

Given the addition of today’s added line, shouldn’t the top line read WORMY LEATHER?

Good sign.

As promised, ladies and gentlemen, the Big Payoff from this week’s series of strips! A pat on their own backs for… umm… actually tying Saturday’s “joke” to Monday’s strip. Given the way so many of Batty’s “story arcs” [sic] just wander aimlessly and end up going nowhere, this is worthy of a Major Award!

Can’t wait for 12/31……..

“Anyone who sits in the Saturday Seat Stain of the Week wins a free refill on their popcorn!”

A weeklong arc primarily focusing on how wonderful the old-time movie theatre wooden armrests were before those young whippersnappers added nuisances like padding and cupholders. You have to step back and marvel at the sheer gall that a comic strip creator with 50-plus years of work under his belt would foist this on his reading public. To paraphrase Dorothy Parker, “His arrogance was an Empire State Building of arrogance. You had to admire it for its size.”

Dang, I think my side just split from laughing so hard.

Stormy Weather movie. “spells trouble” Watch the clip on the imda site. I think I get it now. Anyhow, that’s how I see it.

Is there some sort of joke in today’s strip? If there is, I must be pretty dense because I don’t see it.

Nostalgia rules!

I found this when searching: Batiuk will continue his other newspaper comic, “Crankshaft,” and promises that some “Crankshaft” strips will have crossover episodes featuring some of his “Funky Winkerbean” characters.

Showing two movies??

So the Valentine is reverting to its strip-club days, featuring pole dancer Stormy Weather and the Vintage Seats Rear End Revue?

Meanwhile in the official GC fandom wiki: Juicewrld has ravaged the wiki and is banning anyone who is calling him out on it

Make that “Vintage Seats With The Springs sticking Out”

Maybe the cinematic stars (strippers?) have nicely aged rear ends?