Crankshaft by Tom Batiuk and Dan Davis for August 31, 2024

Dick Facey: “I can top that! All of my books are bland books!”

One good thing about having three huge egos jammed into the same space: there wasn’t enough room left for a word zeppelin.

Oh, look, it’s this joke again: gocomics.com/crankshaft/2024/05/02 .

Huh, that’s interesting. When Lena makes the joke, Harry is dumbfounded. Harry makes the joke here, and everyone loves it. Why would that be? Oh yeah, it’s because Lena is the perpetual punching bag in this strip. Ha ha! It’s funny because everyone hates her all the time! Good thing she’s not here now!

Love a good play on words

“I couldn’t help overhearing your discussion—-Given that we’re the only people in this attic-sized firetrap.”

“Drone Operator to Base: Got a target-rich cluster of Smugwads in Centerville, repeat, Smugwads in Centerville. Awaiting orders to begin The Burnings, over.”

Is this The Burnings, or The Smirkings?

Ain’t he the bland pundit.

Ha-ha

(door bursts open) “FREEZE! YOU’RE UNDER ARREST FOR LISTERIA!” (looks at orders) “Oh. Wait. BOAR’S head, not Boring Heads. Do continue.” (leave)

To quote Reagan, “My fellow Americans, I’m pleased to tell you today that I’ve signed legislation that will outlaw Centerville forever. We begin bombing in five minutes.”

Burn. It. All. Down. Now.

Bingle is sporting his hideous jack o’ lantern face.

Just looks at those three smugly snickering smirks. The three smirketeers. Smirks for all and all for smirks. It’s called smirking!

Can we go back to Crankshaft driving a bus?

Uhhh…. Hoohoohooooo… that Dingleberry is SO freakin funny!

crankshaft is at a meme house with mark trail or having a pecan waffle with some other geezer if your curious

[groan] Okay, I laughed, even though Henny Youngman’s grandmother was the first person to tell that joke.

Crankshaft: “I’d trade all three of you book folk for one good bookie!”

Well you know what they say about what goes on a band camp. “What happens at band camp comes back to haunt you nine months later.”

Gawd, I hate what this strip has become, but today’s offering harks back to one of the earliest strips where a young Funky was selling “band pumpkins” door-to-door and the homeowner asked “Why was it banned?” I thought that was a pretty funny pun, and became a reader, but it’s been downhill ever since.

Note: He said band….not banned???? Crankshaft is still wandering, I guess!

“Let he who is without bad puns cast the first stone! Ethel! For you it’s sin. Sin and bad gas!”

Band them all together and throw them in the ocean, him with it!

Creepy-a$$ Dingleberry should be banned from this strip too.

Harry, how many people are really interested in your Band books? It was hard enough to get people to buy Band products, despite your writing six volumes of Band memories, how many people have bought even one?

As @wherescrankshaft pointed out, Batyuk has used that punchline before. I know I’ve seen that horrific, smirking, finger-pinch Dinkle somewhere before too.

I want to thank everyone for demonstrating restraint and not recycling their comments.

This story arc has been a huge disappointment. Six days in, bloviating Batty has yet to reveal his typical ignorance and lack of research on his featured cause du jour. He’s barely even touched the issue of book banning/burning.

I was expecting this story arc to be bad. Just not this bad. This story arc has not been funny. It has not been informative. It has not even been decent snark fodder. We expect Batty’s prestige arcs to fall laughably short of what he brags about in the puff piece articles, but this is just a recycled mishmash of garbage. It’s dull. Incredibly dull. It’s dreadful.

Anyone who says they’re enjoying this story arc is lying.

The ole boy never heard the context……tomorrow is Sunday!!!!

To quote Donald Trump “This is the dumbest comic strip in the history of the world. “

Dinkle is a liar. His book about a church choir has nothing to do with a band.

Banned books? And yet they are for sale. Odd.

I had to read it twice, then it hit me. Kinda wish it hadn’t.

No Cranky? Me no readee…

I hope Batiuk doesn’t intend to orchestrate this joke through next March.

A pun unworthy of Pastis