Crankshaft by Tom Batiuk and Dan Davis for October 02, 2024

Umm, that’s not a school, it’s a bookstore over a garage.

Umm, it’s not a banned book, it’s a not-approved book.

Lillian: “YOU PEOPLE BETTER WATCH IT! I’VE GOT A BOOK! IT’S LOADED AND I KNOW HOW TO USE IT!!!”

(Mob gasps and backs away)

“DO NOT ADVANCE THE PLOT! WE NEED INERTIA! SO CHANT WE, THE PED XING SIGN PEOPLE!”

The only positive about this is that Cranky is back…

Careful, Or Ed will get his Bus, and Back over you.

The Booksmith is a store, not a school.

You folks who were panning TB for this arc may owe him an apology soon…depending on which way he takes this arc, and I think I know.

Ban grumpy commentors not books!

In panel #1, Bucket of Paint Guy got really ballsy and painted “KEEP OUR KIDS SAFE!” right outside the door of Lillian’s bookstore.

Seriously, Batyuk, why leave out the massive word zeppelin now? What are you afraid of covering up? A blank side of the garage where not even the siding is illustrated?

“Ohhh, we’ll draw you a comic that’s long and immense. Way hey, slow the plot down! Just give us a script that makes no frikkin’ sense. We’ll drag it out, to slow the plot doooown!”

They still defaced Lil’s sign

This is very excite. Much enthuse.

No banned books in school? Whaaaat?

1. That book ain’t banned anywhere. That book just not part of syllabus in a little school. That’s all.

2. This ain’t no steenkin school. This a steenkin bookstore.

3. The particular school in question here is not even in this town in the first place.

4. So did parents of kids of a school in another town travelled all the way here together?

5. If they does so much pre-planning and comes together so far to another town then why on earth there a placards protest in middle of the night? What is point if placard of everyone else is sleeping? They can not wait till it morning?

6. And what was the point of burning two bottom stairs before this then? Where was this mob hiding when fire brigade was comes? If not these clowns then who was that? The sad old guy on a rickety old boat in the lake?

7. How they knows them books is here in this bookstore in another town?

8. Why they should care about this books in this particular bookstore anyways because point no. 1. So why take trouble for all this anyways?

9. Also what was necessity of sneaking not banned books to some obscure little bookstore in another town?

10. And where is the cops? They sleeping? There was arson attempt right here just a while ago and fire brigade was there too. Nobody called them cops?

11. Where’s all them neighbours who was just here a while ago when fire brigade was comes? They is not wakes up with all this commotion now?

Geez. This so absoluterribly awfuludicrous, such a irrefutabombastically ridiculousy and so pompoustupendously preposteroutrageous that this has gots to be such a genius hilarious parody of it all.

Yeah it has gots to be a genius parody, for after all Crankyshaft is known for muddled aphorisms, fires and grilling burnings gags, post boxes vandalisms gags, and puns and all, so what elses but a genius hilarious parody could this be eh, so, “LOL!” It’s called LOLing!

This town needs an enema! (apologies to Jack Nicholson)

Where in the country are people banning books like Fahrenheit? And who are these fools anyway?

OMG – I was joking yesterday, but she is really going to read the book to the mob and the ridiculous moral of the story is going to be “durr read the book and you’ll see that it shouldn’t be banned.” As if that’s actually at the root of the “real world issue” he’s pretending to write about.

That’s it! Time to call the cops!

NO BANNED books! But guns are cool?

Confusing??

If you don’t want banned books in school, don’t ban books.

This whole business about “book banning” is just unconstitutionally wrong giving a citizen no choice about what they want to read.