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1. 3 days ago on Crankshaft

   Yeah, Chuck Ayers drew the K2 statue in the Komix Korner in Funky Winkerbean, so Dan Davis “repurposes” the art asset every time Batiuk decides to revisit the place (like, every other month). It’s pretty much guaranteed you’ll see K2 again this week. And every time, it’ll be the exact same art, no matter where in the shop it is and from what angle it’s being shown.

2. 8 days ago on Crankshaft

   I don’t know why you’re picking on Harry L. Dinkle World’s Greatest Band Director for speaking to Lillian McKenzie Proprietor Of The Village Booksmith And Author Of Murder In The Bookstore in a perfectly hu-man manner. I wonder what Jessica Darling Whose Father John Darling Was Murdered or Batton Thomas Creator Of The Comic Strip Three O’Clock High would think about that.

3. 9 days ago on Crankshaft

   Sitting at home, collecting his share of the profits from Montoni’s. By this time next year, he might have enough to buy a pizza from a better establishment. (Like Domino’s.)

4. 10 days ago on Crankshaft

   No, no, Flash #121 is the TRUE apex of literary achievement. Trust me on this one.

   (For those who don’t know, that issue’s letters page contained a letter from a fan named… well, I’ll let you take a guess…)

5. 12 days ago on Crankshaft

   “So all of this is going to be going away, Mitch. And as soon as this yokel starts marking down the prices for clearance, we’re going to strip mine this place of anything we can resell later. Probably in a year, when some celebrity decides to buy the store because they have a fondness for failed businesses and they need the stock.”

6. 13 days ago on Crankshaft

   Actually, the timing is completely wrong for the continuity; Pam was, canonically, a student at Kent State in 1970 (she was a witness to the shootings there). So it would be impossible for her to have been as young as we see here in or after 1977.

7. 13 days ago on Crankshaft

   “And if you just slide that register off the top of the counter where this kid is standing underneath it, I can make it worth your while. Keep the store open, you might say. Don’t worry about the parents, they’re too preoccupied with their own failing business to even notice…”

8. 14 days ago on Crankshaft

   If we’re seeing the exact same characters from essentially the exact same angle, why are the backgrounds in both panels so drastically different? (I mean, yesterday, one could assume that Ed and Rictus Humonculus had walked past the store in panel 2 and only then saw the sign that the hardware store was closing in panel 1, so it at least made some sense. But here… even if we assume they moved to a different part of the store… WHY would you structure the comic like that? Especially since Davis recycles at least 90% of the artwork anyway, so it would make more sense to have the same background in both panels.)

9. 18 days ago on Crankshaft

   “The bad news is… Mort Winkerbean and his Bedside Manor band have teamed up with Dinkle’s church choir to perform Claude Barlow’s ‘Golden Showers’ up on the roof.”

10. 19 days ago on Crankshaft

    Max probably figures that if even one person sticks around, it’ll be their most profitable day ever.