Crankshaft by Tom Batiuk and Dan Davis for December 05, 2024

Oh good, Harry gets what he wants without any pushback. That’s nice.

Y’know who else can stand to have a comeback? Crankshaft. Where is he?

He’s back in the saddle, but it’s the choir who will soon be calling for Preparation H.

As if you’ve ever gotten off it, you borgus frat!

Harry, what you and Mrs. Dinkle do in your bedroom is nobody’s business.

Out where a friend is a friend—-Gene Autry

I really like it when the artist takes the time to get the correct music onto the staff, rather than just random eighth notes.

And you’re already Three weeks late on your Band fund raising Goal

Tom would’ve have said “Here I come to save the DAAAY!” but he knows Mighty Mouse is too new for his followers to recognize. Tomorrow: A Jimmy Durante joke.

So we have Lillian, Dinkle, the Choir AND a reference to the second greatest achievement in Human History: “The Phantom Empire.” (The first is Flash #123, but I think that turning up’s a gimme at this point)

Where’s Crankshaft?!

So is that Aerosmith’s “Back In The Saddle”?

I hope those snotnoses eat Dinkle alive.

OY , to the Trolls on this strip. Lighten up , Variety is the spice of life , 4 panels of Crankshaft ’s face , left profile , right profile , left profile , right profile , how boring , the only thing more boring is the daily troll posts ! After it is only a Christmas story arc .

Or Aerosmith…

Meanwhile down at the Dale Evans Ed and the boys are having breakfast.Ed to the waitress: “Do you have any prune juice I’m a little constitricked.”

I wonder if he’s gonna wear his hat over his eyes for nostalgia ?

Somebody is very pleased with himself.

On the one hand, it’s Dungle; on the other, that’s one nicely drawn coat hook… and BRICKS!!

Couldn’t Zoe, from Baby Blues, handle this assignment?!? It would be a lot funnier, for certain.

I used to wish …..I could sing…….now I wish he could!!!!!!!!

frank zappa wrote a song about dingle its called STINKFOOT

He may be back in the saddle, but somebody else can clean up after the horse

SPOILERS! /s

Although we won’t see any of it, the concert will be a success. We’ll read the buildup and the aftermath, but nothing in between. There, I saved everyone two weeks of wondering. Three things you can always count on with Batty:

1.) Tell, don’t show. Characters will talk about the concert up until it’s about to start. The following day will feature characters talking about how great it was and how smooth it went. Harry Dinkle will be congratulated for “saving the day”. A round of smirks for everyone.

2.) Certain Mary Sue characters like Les Moore, Harry Dinkle, and Lillian McKenzie get whatever their little ol’ hearts desire. There’s never any pushback. The very thought is inconceivable in the contemporary Funkyverse.

3.) There’s no pain, struggle, or strife at all in the post-Winkerbean Funkyverse. The outcome is preordained and never a surprise. Characters achieving success without struggle equals boring.

He thinks he’s Gene Autry………..Where is Crankshaft……..

Serious question: Is Dingle still deaf? Or did magic occur?

So the secretary didn’t know who he is (was) yet she just let him head on in to class…

Back from the Shadows again, out where and Indian’s your friend. Where the vegetables are green and you can pee into the stream….

You will have saddle sores!

Harry could’ve done “On the Road Again,” but decided he was more of an Gene Autry type white cowboy, than an “outlaw” Willie Nelson.

There’s no better feeling than being needed and wanted, to feel a purpose in your life.