Crankshaft by Tom Batiuk and Dan Davis for August 22, 2024

“And then I applied once, and they rejected me, and that’s it. In the face of adversity, I folded. And then I did comic strips for fifty years. The end.”

They’re sure diggin’ into those tasty Montoni’s pizzas, aren’t they! I like how they talk so not stuck-up jerklike, as we discover what this “interview destines.”

A personal Lagrange point? Is he talking about the space between his ears? Or is he trying to describe the concept of a third body being caught in deep space, never going anywhere or doing anything, as two distant astronomical bodies immobilize it with their equally-balanced gravitational pulls? Never in my weirdest dreams did I think that Sheik Yabuti would hint at a mathematical description of the Funkyverse!

’That was also the summer I started grooming my facial hair to increase my resemblance to Sonny Bono!"

What, no thoughts of working for Batom Comics?

I like the last line.

I loved my comics! The excitement of when the new ones came out each week, who’s going to get in trouble now.

Personal Lagrange point? What the Buckminsterfullerene molecule is a Personal Lagrange point? What is this be a komix bookx or quantum physikx text bookx?

Stan Lee will always be with us

And a lot of other people.

I’ve never seen any real human being hold a piece of pizza like Skip is holding it.

“Personal LaGrange Point”…. Hmmm… “Rumour spreadin’ a-‘round…. in that Texas town… ’bout that shack outside La Grange….and you know what I’m talkin’ about…. Just let me know… if you wanna go…to that home out on the range. They gotta lotta nice girls.”

The 2nd panel artwork has poignancy, showing the Lower Manhattan skyline before the rise of the WTC.

Stan Lee was an American comic book writer, editor, publisher and producer. He rose through the ranks of a family-run business called Timely Comics which later became Marvel Comics. ….Died 2018 at 95!

Schools starting and Crankshaft is no where to be found

Well clearly Funky Winkerbean II is being cancelled at the end of this year, since he’s decided to devote the summer to putting together this poorly written (and unsurprisingly dull) autobiography and plopped it into the middle of summer. Then he gets to wrap it all up with The Burnings and, with a Wave of His Magic Mop, TimeMop™ can clean up the dreck of two once-enjoyable strips ruined because the author somehow decided that he was too good for what he was good at doing.

I always preferred the work of Robert Crumb.

thanks to wilber weston who had my post deleted yesterday or someone who voted for ron desantis

goodnight ladies and germs see ya next time i know your laughing on the inside

A Lagrange point is in a region of equilibrium, not of transition. A region of rapid transition might be called a shock.

The first time—and pretty much every time—I flew into Hong Kong my thoughts were, “Eeek, the tips of the wings are less than a hundred yards away from apartment buildings and kids playing soccer!”

Nice job with the NY skyline……

You ever see a guy handle a slice of pizza the way Skip’s holding his?

Sorry, Mopey Pete fans. This is the second story arc in a row at Monotoni’s without an appearance by Mopey Pete. Were Mopey Pete and Windy Mindy dismissed in the latest round of layoffs at Batom, Inc.? Monotoni’s, now run by the giant faceless conglomerate, NexusCorp Industries?

Nah. More likely, Yabtui wanted to give himself, I mean Batton Thomas, more panels to demonstrate his prodigious wordplay. Can you imagine what it’s like sharing a lunch table with this pretentious blowhard? Check, please!

Meanwhile, Stan was L.A., trying to sell the Hulk to television.

Oh, for the love of all that is holy… RETIRE already. We’re drowning in nostalgia here.

Stan Lee was down there and so was Jack Kirby. At that moment I decided start a comic strip and then wait to see which one of them died first, so that I could then pick his bones by including a character who was a rip-off of him.

I dare you to define a Lagrange point, Bathack. I triple-dog-dare ya!

“Passed a personal Lagrange point between the sway of the past and the pull of the future.”

NOBODY TALKS LIKE THIS!

For a man obsessed with “reality”, Batiuk sure seem detached from it.

For 20 years, there was no place Stan Lee WASN’T

And what happened to Bernie The Brain when he grew up?