Let’s see, Tom Batiuk shares “creative” honors with a guy name Ayers to churn out Crankshaft, evidently one of those postmodern, nihilistic comix of pain, irony and despair, usually relegated to a city’s alternative newspaper.
No.
What?
Oh, Crankshaft just looks like one of those comix. I must’ve be confused with the recent storylines involving
- the death of an Alzheimer’s patient (and her not realizing an old flame of hers had been visiting her);
- a peek into Crankshaft’s future (in which he’s wheelchair-bound and conscripted to a nursing home);
- and this week, a small dog being bitten by a rattlesnake while in the wilds of a suburban Ohio backyard (apparently a myopic rattler, since it missed Crankshaft entirely).
The small dog/rattlesnake plot will continue next week. I’m not holding out any hope for “Tinkerbelle,” but then, I’m not holding out any hope that this strip is ever going to improve, either. At least I can provide an Alternate Universe and our buddy Barney…
The Sunday edition of Crankshaft doesn’t follow the weekly plots, for those newspapers who have the good taste to expose their readers to only limited amounts of this crap knee-slappin’ humor. I guess it was just a coincidence that yardwork and animals figure into it:
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