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Doesn't it feel like every 'Crankshaft' could be the last?

Monday, November 23rd, 2009

Ever since writer Tom Batiuk went cuckoo earlier this year and penned a series of strips showing lovable oldster Crankshaft as a drooling human...
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Will laughter ever return to 'Funky Winkerbean'?

Does anyone remember laughter? Time was the funnies were just that - brief humorous haikus with a shot of mirth delivered in less than fifty words and...
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'Last Days of Animal Man' marks a turning point in comics storytelling

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If you'll pardon the pun, DC Comics' "Last Days of Animal Man" has lots of bite, and I'll tell you why. Storytelling in comic books has...
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The return of Wally Winkerbean

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You never really expect a good joke or belly laugh from Funky Winkerbean, but you also don't expect to see a character presumed dead return...
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Breathe a sigh of relief: All looks well in 'Crankshaft'

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At last, a return to normalcy: After a few excruciating days of seeing Ed Crankshaft reduced to a drooling vegetable in some odd apocalyptic vision of...
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Is Crankshaft about to get a death bite?

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The waiting, as Tom Petty once sang, is the hardest part. After seeing Ed Crankshaft reduced to a vegetative state for a week's worth of strips, we...
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Crankshaft is back!

It's official! Ed Crankshaft is back in the land of the living. After an abrupt portrayal of our favorite grizzled senior citizen as suffering in a...
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Ed Crankshaft is ravaged by age

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In a dark story twist, Tom Batuik has jumped his "Crankshaft" comic several years into the future, to a time when the central character of...
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Are your favorite comics characters Twittering?

At least one of the comic page's longtime residents has a yen to talk beyond the three or four panels allotted to her strip each day.Yes, Apartment...
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