Crankshaft by Tom Batiuk and Dan Davis for August 06, 2024

Dead Skunkhead John has a sad definition of “luck.”

Any guesses about when Cranky will make his next guest appearance in his own ’toon?

… Batton is an ancient endless loop artist.

Call him 8 track cause he still looks for 8 track tapes to buy.

Certainly not because he has a 8 track mind.

Nope…

Man how Korny can ya gets in Komix Korner.

Did I miss it or has Ed not been to the Mud-Hens reunion this year? Wait, no. This is not Crankshaft anymore. It is everything that is not Crankshaft from the Batiuk Universe.

Or Cretans.

“Ha ha ha. Buy something or get out.”

WHOA, dude, slow down this roller coaster of a whirlwind! “Hi, I’m me!” followed by “Hello, I also am me!” Two back-to-back days of introductions, it’s like whiplash! And only FOUR MORE DAYS TO GO!

……..to describe a person who was not trained at university????

Ha! All you people that said it was ridiculous to try to interview someone by just randomly show up at a place he visits occasionally. It worked!

Batiuk draws himself.Where’s Crankshaft?

Didn’t we just do this? Like 2 months ago, with Skip replaced by Jeff? Cool! Another week (or more!) of 3 of Tom’s avatars praising Tom’s main avatar!

Zzzzzzz……

Tom, Dan, this is two days in a row with no Crankshaft. Good Gracious, what are you trying to do to the OCD readers, give them PSTD? They don’t care about a story line, they just want to see Crankshaft.

P 3 (Captin’ dork): “…and because they like to make fun of me…”

Wow, what a coincidence. What are the odds Batton Thomas would come waltzing in just as Skippy mentions wanting to talk to him? Skip must be clairvoyant! Did Skip replace his missing arm with the monkey’s paw? (and the monkey’s paw curls a finger)

Nah. Batyuk is just utilizing his preferred writing style. It’s called “forced and contrived.”

its tuesday this must be belguim

Please, bring the robot to life so that it can FINALLY start The Burnings!

Wherever Eugene is rowing right now, I wish the strip was there instead.

What is with all the hateful comments here? I don’t know if I’ve read the comment section for this comicbefore, but my goodness! Such vitriol! If you hate it so much, why do you waste your precious time reading it and talking trash about it???

No Cranky again!

Next week, Skip It is praised for the brilliant interview he just published. The week after that, he gets a letter in the mail and slowly opens it. Week three, the letter comes from the Pulitzer People and is congratulating him on his nomination. Week four, Hairy Dangle composes the Pulitzer Award Symphony, in the style of Clyde Barlow.

They call him “8 track” because they’ve been obsolete since the 70s and even in their heyday they were poor quality and difficult.

Skip reminds me of R. Crumb today.

“So why do they call you Captain Eight-Track?”

“Because I work in a rail switching yard.”

Maybe when the original Funky comes here this fall,there’ll be more of Crankshaft in his own strip. Maybe Tom’s warming up.

Cranky? Yoo-hoo!

Enter Batton Thomas, alert for dropped pennies on the floor.

The Philistines are t he Philadelphia baseball team

When Lex Luthor is wearing that armored suit, somebody should walk up to him and yell “YOU’RE A TOY !!”