Crankshaft by Tom Batiuk and Dan Davis for June 18, 2024

“And what’s a Bandelorean?”“It’s an Eighties car that isn’t allowed on the road anymore!”

Listening to Mason Jaw reminds me of why tuxedoes are called “monkey suits.” Zanzibar the murder chimp had more smarts than that guy.

Only the names have been changed, to swindle the naive.

Anyone else get the feeling that Batiuk has already written and illustrated the “SJ: Rise of the Bandeloreans” comic book and is using this arc to alert the publishing industry?

Mandalorians that formed a band?

Duh… Entertainment Tonight reporters are always slow on the uptake.

And me thoughts ET is mean extra terrestrials.

Anytheeng to bandboozle the audience and purloin theirs hard earned money eh Jar Jar.

“And this is my wife Cindy, the medical miracle! Not only is she almost 70 and looks 20, but she’s pregnant even though she should have hit menopause 15 years ago!”

Seriously, what happened to Cindy being pregnant? Why did we just skip over Mason and Cindy telling her parents, and their obviously shocked reaction?

Just a new copyright on the title. Recycled the costumes, script, sets and credits. And increased the volume to head numbing levels.

Cindy appears to have become another Hollywood Cosmetic Surgery Disaster.

“For this one, I got Harry L. Dinkle World’s Greatest Band Director to help me put together the music!”

“You are history’s greatest monster.”

Enough of this already!

OK I’ll say it. Where is Crankshaft?

“Rise of the Zeton Warriors,” now “Rise of the Bandelorians.” Both sequels are about things “rising.” Is Masoné trying to introduce us to his new friend, a little blue pill? After he broke up with his old bestie, ED (not Ed Crankshaft)?

Where’s Cranshaft?

War! The Galaxy is crumbling

under attacks by the ruthless

Bandelorians.

There are trumpets on both sides.

Drummer’s are everywhere.

In a stunning move, the

fiendish Bandelorian leader, General

Baton, has swept into the

School Bus Lot and kidnapped

Ed Crankshaft, school bus driver.

As the rest of the bus drivers

attempts to flee the besieged

bus lot with their valuable

lunch boxes, Starbuck Jones leads a

desperate mission to rescue the

captive Ed Crankshaft……………………

Ask a silly question…

Chuckle

Cindy looks more vacant than usual and is exactly the same in the first two panels*. She has the same vacant stare and dimwit smile in the third panel.

She appears to have been stuffed.

*Yeah, yeah, I know. Davis copied and pasted the same clip art in consecutive panels.

OMG! Batiuk used the actual title of a TV shoe instead of a thinly-veiled rewrite of the title (ENTERTAINMENT THIS EVENING?) Phone the kids! Wake the neighbors!

Sounds about right. In the real world that about all that Hollywood puts out today, rehashed old stories.

Second verse same as the first; I’m Henry the Eighth I am.

batiuk inspired by judge parker writer will only show title charecter couple times a year

meanwhile wilber still not on boat and mandrake the magcian still stuck in laptop

A diversified cartoon without the the Titled Character?

That question makes no sense. Other than to set up the hilarious joke that’s been done 10,000 times.

Where’s Ed?

maybe Cranksheft will show up with a busload of kids

Is Crankshaft in the hospital dying or something? Let him out!!!!

Lemme guess: the big fight in the movie’s final act involves a giant ray of light shooting up from the ground into the skies. That’s how most comic book films end.

Hey, look, gang! It’s the pregnant and canonically 69-year-old Cindy Summers Winkerbean Jarre, so conveniently dropped out after revealing she was in the family way so that we could have weeks of Dinkleberg and nonagenarian softball players! Hi, Cindy!

DUH!

How about “The Death Of The Overproduced Sequel”.?

I don’t think t he second has been better than the first since DIE hARD 2

What’s the rise of the Bandelorians? About nine inches!