Crankshaft by Tom Batiuk and Dan Davis for December 08, 2023

Nope, that’s too low-hanging a fruit for me to even consider. See you all Saturday.

Pete is jealous. Somebody couldn’t even bother to decide on his last name. And whatever it is, Mindy looks like she doesn’t want it for her married name.

Your parents chose your last name, and why are you surprised it wasn’t their last name?

I do think it’s pretty amusing that the darkest, most depressing strip in the newspaper (so I’ve been told anyway) was called…Funky Winkerbean…

Pete will adopt for his pseudonym … Crankbean

Okay I wanted a fist fight but these two going on a road trip to punch out their creator is better.

In your case, Ed, it was to describe your personality. That’s why we call you Cranky. But a better name would’ve been Pyromaniac.

There is probably a website somewhere. (AI for the weird win!)

Whyyy. Dead St. Lisa, of course!

Fat Flunky, with his ever-morphing nose, is shrink-wrapped in a sausage casing.

Well, names are artificial, so you can call yourself anything you want. Although if you want to legally use it you need to file paperwork.

don’t these two already know each other?

Crank is showcasing his jazz hand. “What am I offered?”

Classic!

The author.

Same person that ran this strip into a hole. Soon be a black hole.

A jab at all the negative comments about F and C!!!!!!!

Remember when Montoni’s Pizza on the glass used to be red??

I don’t know. Is his real name Batiuk?

Funky: My surname was anglicized from an Russian surname that’s very hard to pro-

Crank: GET OUT OF HERE YOU COMMIE!

(Funky beats Crank up while Popey Meat/Mopey Pete/Droop Dawg/Mopey McMopester and Mindy/Generic Blond Woman look on in horror)

A very rich man maybe?……

Are these the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic renderings of mopey Peat?

CRANKSHAFT because you drive a bus… No idea where Winkerbean came from?

what name would you prefer ed CRABSALAD

“We should sue someone for giving us these stupid names.”

“Good a call! I’ll get my lawyer, Amicus Breef, on it.”

“Okay, new plan. I call it ‘The Burnings’…”

Attempting to track the relative position of each character this week is giving me motion sickness. Are there mirrors involved? Are they orbiting one another? Are they performing some form of Sicilian fertility dance?

How about a square dance? Allemande Left with your corner! Do si do! Promenade!Reply

Game, set and match to Funky Winkerbean.

The OTHER site has no comments—-so I’ll go off course here.

Will somebody PLEASE tranquilizer-dart Sally Forth’s mother??

ask if you can buy the sauce recipe.

I only started reading FW and Crankshaft in the last 4-5 years. Are we to believe the two title characters have never met until this week’s storyline?

How is Funky as old as Crankshaft when he was a high schooler when Ed was an old bus driver?

Haha! (＾▽＾)