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

Quite a legacy to record. Good for him.

“And I saw a beast rising out of the sea, with ten horns and seven heads, with ten diadems on its horns and blasphemous names on its word zeppelin.”

The first nine are real books,and you can get them on lots of sheet music stores! And honestly,I like Les,as I relate to him a bit.

Well, that’s an improvement. Les’s usual urea-yellow shirt has been dipped in Ty-D-Bowl. He’s clearly flushed with pride!

The phallus with eyes has arrived.

He hasn’t written about band turkeys yet…

Part of what’s so disappointing about this is not only the deliberate discarding of an interesting character (Cranky), but how Batiuk makes writers look like morons…

Now you know why there’s a coming purge of libraries..

Oh noes. Tell me it ain’t him. But it about time he show up here too. But not him. Not Les Moore. Anyone but Les Moore! AAAAAUUUGGGHHH!

The unthinkable has happened. Right there. There it is—right before your eyes. Thousands of generations of decency and legislation couldn’t stop it.

I see Les Moore finally showed up.

This strip is now officially Funky Winkerbean 2.0.

The 2 most despicable characters of all time together in one place. If only the building would collapse.

Les Moore needs to be stuffed in a locker

If we’re lucky (we won’t be) that Tower of Babbling in Panel 1 will tip over and kill both of those schmucks.

Don’t ask Les what his books are about! DON’T ASK HIM WHAT HIS BOOKS ARE ABOUT!!!

So… which book of his own is Les forgetting? It can’t be the third part of the Dead Saint Lisa Trilogy, even though that was done as a comic book, because a) it was part of the Dead Saint Lisa Trilogy, and b) Batiuk would never denigrate comic books like that. So it must be his FIRST book, Fallen Star, the one about John Darling Who Was Murdered, that he’s forgetting. Even though Les solved an actual crime in writing it. (And probably committed a few more against the literary world by writing it, too.) But, you know, it’s not about Dead Saint Lisa, so… who cares, right? (Certainly not Dead Saint Lisa’s daughter-in-law, Jessica Darling Whose Father John Darling Was Murdered, whose father, John Darling Who Was Murdered, the book was about. But she’s not Les, so she’s not all THAT important, I guess.)

Self-publishing. Where no one is telling you your book is crap.

An exercise in tedium.Where’s 98-year-old Crankshaft?

…..and the saga continues………two more days until Sunday!!!!!!

I thought the Funky Witherbean comic was discontinued, apparently not

I don’t know what’s going on, but please do something about these lousy storylines. The antics of Crankshaft are so more entertaining. I can say, I don’t look forward to reading it anymore, the only reason I open it up, is hope that things will go back to “normal”. For example, the bus route- end of summer grilling- anything.

Where’s “What I Saw Under the Bleachers”?

I started reading this strip during breakfast but had to continue it later so I wasn’t late for work.

Crankshaft has not been forgotten by most readers…..basically the creators have and are on screwy tangent……..

a guy talking to his hand in rex morgan today is more interesting then creepy james lipton and the flute master of hot air

Thank you, Tom Batiuk, for not stretching this into eleven individual days to name each book one by one.

Seeing nothing but words on the preview for today’s strip is rather jarring, all the same.

In the last panel Harry looks more like Batton. Sometimes you have to clear the clipboard before you cut and paste.

Best Actress Award winner Les Moore has arrived. Who is he wearing? Is that a Donna Karan?

Nope, it’s a mismatched assemblage from Walmart consisting of a sport jacket, dress shirt, tie and slacks. Nothing goes with anything. It’s a total mismatch. Who dresses this guy?

Les Moore appears in a new strip for the first time in almost two years. He’s already making it all about himself and whining by panel #3. Totally self-centered.

Classic Les Moore!

He’s had a very busy life

Commonly known as the Band-Aid collection.

I’m perfectly fine with Les’ appearance. I’m surprised it took this long.

STILL!!! No Crankshaft! Ran out of any ideas? Quit trying and go dig ditches!

Sing it Mel: “Oh Lord, it’s hard to be humble. When you’re perfect in every way!”

IT… IS… ALIVE! THE VILE CREATURE HAS AWAKENED.

Mothers grab your kids off the street. Close the windows. Bolt and lock the doors. Call the police. Alert the military.

Dinky has been using hallucinogenic AI to write his autobiographies.

Keywords: Fantasy … Egotistic … Delusional …

Les Moore comes face-to-face with Dinkle. I have to say I’m kind of disappointed so far. I expected something like Frankenstein vs. The Wolfman or Godzilla vs King Kong.

It’s a battle for the ages. Who is the most reviled character in the Batiukverse?

Dinkle has opened the battle with an ego blast. It’s a direct hit! Less is hit with feelings of inadequacy! It’s time for Less to battle back by mentioning his dead wife!

You’re slipping Batyuk. Where’s the little asterisk with the note telling people where to buy these books? Did you forget or did you just run out of space?

I’m not reading that wall of text, so if there was anything genuinely amusing in it, I’ll never know.

Get ready for a long (months) arc concerning banned books. I’ll be busy reading Maus.

ron desantis will be watching very carefully thats his main power banning books

He was boring 10 years ago and he’s still boring.

Canonically, these two work in the same building and have known each other for 50 years. So this whole conversation is idiotic. Par for the course.

So-sick-of-harry-dinkle

Good to see Les again. I was wondering when he was going to show up.

I started following this strip after Funky Winkerbean ended, mainly hoping to see some of the old characters in crossover.

If Tom’s trip to NYC to be rejected by DC and Marvel was his personal Lagrange point, the meeting and “size of my book pile” comparison (yeah, we know what you’re really comparing, and we’d need a magnifying glass to see them) must be his personal black hole.

Of course Harry’s autobiography runs to eleven volumes. He’s such a great composer, he puts a movement on paper almost every day!

old flart comedy humor at its best

I had a teacher that told me it is not the quantity but the quality of work that matters.

An autobiography that no one’ll finish.

Foolish me. I thought the II was a 2!

Shove the author over a clef