Recent Comments

1. about 9 hours ago on Crankshaft

   I’m still sticking with my contention that there is no Stencherville Sentinel, and Skippy is actually just hired to cosplay the historic role of a town journalist in the historical society museum. Whether there is actually a demand for “old tyme journalism theater” or the whole thing is just a welfare program to keep Skippy fed, I don’t know.

2. 2 days ago on Crankshaft

   Yesterday we learned that the Stencherville Sentinel’s “news room” is located inside the Historical Society museum. This suggests it’s not an active news room at all, but an interactive exhibit for visitors. Any second now, Skippy will pull the tape out of the AP ticker and compose his front page story about Neil Armstrong walking on the moon.

3. 2 days ago on Crankshaft

   Only if Batton Thomas is paying.

4. 2 days ago on Crankshaft

   I miss the early flat-screen monitors, the ones that immediately started functioning the second you turned them on. Now we have these “smart TVs” with computers in them, which take as long to “initialize” as the old vacuum-tube sets took to warm up.

5. 2 days ago on Crankshaft

   Are we sure this isn’t a ghost story?

   Yes, its a tale of an author ghosting his readers.

6. 2 days ago on Crankshaft

   “There hasn’t been more than one person in the newsroom in quite a while.”

   And once Emily gets over that case of Covid that took away her sense of smell, there soon won’t be more than one person in the newsroom again.

7. 3 days ago on Crankshaft

   It will later be discovered that Emily is not here to shadow the newspaper editor (,publisher, floor-mopper, delivery boy…) for her English class. She is researching fossils for her science class and heard that the oldest one in the county is on display at the Historical Society.

8. 3 days ago on Crankshaft

   Are “Crankshaft Crabs” the newest appetizer on the menu at Montoni’s, or the result of an intimate encounter between Lil and Ed?

9. 3 days ago on Crankshaft

   Oh come on, if we went away what would you guys have to talk about? Certainly not the comic, as you never say squat about why you think it’s so great…

10. 3 days ago on Crankshaft

    Sub-headed: MISTAKES CYBERTRUCK FOR TRASH DUMPSTER