Crankshaft by Tom Batiuk and Dan Davis for August 26, 2024

Tom’s quite proud of this joke he’s been using for 3 decades.

How is Dinkenstein able to step on consecrated ground?

Showing your age there, billy? LOL…

Oh Joy another tell-all book on the remands table !

Okay, so today is basically a rehash of the Jan. 29, 2024 strip, only this time Dinkelberg appears to be actually giving them away, not charging for them.

Actually, if these are the kind of books that are going to be immolated In “The Burnings,” I’m all for it.

Free is my favorite price

“Harry, the pastor and the head of the church council would like a word with you.”

please make it stop

So this is reason why them book burnings will begins.

Oh crap.

Where do I sign up for Team The Burnings?

P 4: At least five people tell Dinkle-doosh “….no thanks bud!…I’m good…”

Hasn’t he joined the Choir Eternal yet?

wheres the table so he can sign the books thats whats coming up the rest of the week

He’s going to GIVE them a free copy of his book? Will wonders never cease?

And Crankshaft, god bless him, is down at the bar, trying to come to terms with his lost years and that his grandson’s an adult.

Welcome to Day One of Batyuk’s latest prestige arc, “The Burnings.” An ultra-serious storyline that will spark discussions on freedom of expression and the role of literature in society. But first, a joke! A joke that Batyuk has run into the ground.

Never change, Batyuk. LoL

Some commenters inquired if Dinkle would appear in “The Burnings.” The answer is an emphatic YES! On Day One! I guess Batyuk wanted to get the Dinkle fans(?) invested in the story early.

¯\(ツ)/¯

So one day of Ed, and back to FW characters. PLEASE don’t let Dinkle live long enough for Volume 3!

His first book was all about his life. This is about his retirement. WHO would actually READ it? A retired band leader who directs church choirs and an Old Folk’s Home band. Riveting.

It’ll be all about church organ transplants

Is that quare or choir??

…and tuba solos!

I’m not a spiritual man but suddenly I hope blasphemy is, in fact, real and punished by eternal perdition. Burn, Harry, burn forever.

Oh, goody. The least interesting and least funny character in the history of comic strips is back. And that includes the cat from Mutts with the speech impediment.

Well of course they are, at least in the good old U.S. of A. these days, because they sure aren’t about God any longer.

Among other things, hopefully.

Who honestly needs to write a two-volume autobiography?

…and cricket pitches are for???

An autobiography don’t need to be that long. I wouldn’t think so.