Crankshaft by Tom Batiuk and Dan Davis for November 21, 2024

Skip it, Skippy, there’s nothing natural about this.

SKIP: “Remember how I said that no one reads our newspaper? Even though it’s a sheet of A4, folded in half, so that you can only read the headline, so you don’t notice that the rest of it’s just one coupon for $5 off an oil change at Jiffy Lube, and then 39 coupons that say ‘BUY LISA’S STORY?!” (now shrieking) “I hope—NO ONE FINDS OUT! That SUBSCRIPTIONS NEED TO BE—SPIKED! SPIKED! SPIII—III-KED!” (brings out a big ol’ spike) (She does not react. As she is just a cardboard cutout. SKIP mumbles “Tomorrow, gonna get my money back from the Spike Depot”)

“STICKS NIX HICK PIX”—Variety, July 17, 1935. TOM: Always on top of the latest trends!

Where’s Cranky?

Hilarious.

Vlad Tepes wept.

So people are dying from spikes, now.

You should thank Sluggo for that.

Sounds like Shoe or Frank and Ernest to me.

“Too bad that by the time you start looking for a real job, newspapers won’t exist any more!”