{"id":2833,"date":"2009-08-02T17:21:11","date_gmt":"2009-08-02T23:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/?p=2833"},"modified":"2009-08-02T17:28:06","modified_gmt":"2009-08-02T23:28:06","slug":"meanwhile-in-whydontyoujustkillyourselfland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/?p=2833","title":{"rendered":"Meanwhile in Whydontyoujustkillyourselfland&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s see, Tom Batiuk shares &#8220;creative&#8221; honors with a guy name Ayers to churn out <em>Crankshaft<\/em>, evidently one of those postmodern, nihilistic comix of pain, irony and despair, usually relegated to a city&#8217;s alternative newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>No.<\/p>\n<p>What?<\/p>\n<p>Oh, <em>Crankshaft<\/em> just <em>looks<\/em> like one of those comix.\u00a0 I must&#8217;ve be confused with the recent storylines involving<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the death of an Alzheimer&#8217;s patient (and her not realizing an old flame of hers had been visiting her);<\/li>\n<li>a peek into Crankshaft&#8217;s future (in which he&#8217;s wheelchair-bound and conscripted to a nursing home);<\/li>\n<li>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).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The small dog\/rattlesnake plot will continue next week.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not holding out any hope for &#8220;Tinkerbelle,&#8221; but then, I&#8217;m not holding out any hope that this strip is <em>ever<\/em> going to improve, either.\u00a0 At least I can provide an Alternate Universe and our buddy Barney&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2837\" title=\"new-cs1\" src=\"http:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/new-cs1.jpg\" alt=\"new-cs1\" width=\"540\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/new-cs1.jpg 540w, https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/new-cs1-250x92.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Sunday edition of <em>Crankshaft<\/em> doesn&#8217;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&#8217; humor.\u00a0 I guess it was just a coincidence that yardwork and animals figure into it:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2838\" title=\"new-cs2\" src=\"http:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/new-cs2.jpg\" alt=\"new-cs2\" width=\"800\" height=\"135\" srcset=\"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/new-cs2.jpg 800w, https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/new-cs2-250x42.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s see, Tom Batiuk shares &#8220;creative&#8221; 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&#8217;s alternative newspaper. No. What? Oh, Crankshaft just looks like one of those comix.\u00a0 I must&#8217;ve be confused with the recent storylines involving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous-comics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2833"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2836,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2833\/revisions\/2836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}