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1. about 2 hours ago on Crankshaft

   It’s a comment section. If you don’t like the comments, don’t read them.

2. about 10 hours ago on Crankshaft

   Which, of course, raises the all-important question: if Batiuk wanted to bring in all the Funky Winkerbean characters and relegate Crankshaft back to minor character status… WHY end Funky in the first place? Why not just end the Crankshaft strip, move him and his supporting cast into Funky, and keep THAT strip going?

3. about 10 hours ago on Crankshaft

   Because Batiuk specifically showed Cindy here attending her FIFTY-YEAR high school reunion, where the characters said they were 68 years old. That was two years ago, and Batiuk has mentioned that he’s having the characters (allegedly) age in “real time”. (And Cindy and Mason went DIRECTLY from that reunion to Centerville, where they saw the Valentine was closed, at which point Mason decided to buy the place. So there’s no possible way to shuffle the timeline such that this happens before then.)

   It’s not that comics characters have to age in real time, it’s that 1) Batiuk has established (and even BRAGGED) about having his characters do so, and 2) by the timeline BATIUK HIMSELF established, Cindy MUST BE 70 years old. There’s simply no way around it.

4. about 10 hours ago on Crankshaft

   No, you’re confusing Generic Blonde Woman with Generic Blonde Woman. (Not to be confused with Generic Blonde Woman, Generic Blonde Woman, or Generic Blonde Woman.)

5. 1 day ago on Crankshaft

   Probably using the empty theater for #*#%$@.

6. 4 days ago on Crankshaft

   You mean someone might have, like, a blog devoted to snarking on Batiuk’s comics?

   Nah, never happen.

7. 4 days ago on Crankshaft

   Actually, until I hear otherwise, that’s my assumption.

   That Cindy is canonically 70 f***ing years old will be conveniently ignored.

8. 4 days ago on Crankshaft

   Well, she used to have a sister, Sadie. But creating a character who was essentially a carbon copy of her older sister is the one mistake Batiuk will admit to making, so he pretty much gave her the Chuck Cunningham treatment.

   (And, of course, he had no problem with multiple wish-fulfillment author avatars, and then just outright put himself into the comic anyway. But, you know. Can’t have a copy of Cindy running around.)

9. 5 days ago on Crankshaft

   Insert “beady-eyed nitpicker” comment here.

10. 5 days ago on Crankshaft

    He’s actually in today’s strip, but you can’t see him because the word balloons are covering him up.