January 1-8
Ed Crankshaft watches a college football game with Jeff and Pam; Sunday is Ed and the boys at Dale Evans’.
January 9-15
The school kids’ holiday clothes are dropping so much glitter that the bus drivers must wear sunglasses; they enact a glitter ban that is unpopular with the parents. Sunday, Ed goes bowling and picks up a 7-10 split.
January 16-22
Emily and Amelia, who have reverted to tween-age, show Lillian a rare comic that they found in a box of books. She brings it to Crazy Harry and Dead Skunk Head John at the Komix Korner. John sells the rare book, and splits the proceeds with Lillian.
January 23-29
Crankshaft attempts to de-ice the roof with a flamethower. How do you think this turns out? Sunday, Ed annoys a bank teller.
January 30-February 4
The St. Spires Choir and Harry Dinkle are invited to the Ohio Music Educators Association event.
February 5-11
A winter storm hits the area; local weather reporters drum up hysteria.
February 12-19
At the Centerville Ice Carving Festival, Ed wreaks havoc with his flamethrower.
February 20-25
Mindy and twins Emily and Amelia create a website that will allow Lillian to promote her “book-themed mysteries.”
Sunday, February 26
Dinkle and the St. Spires choir resume holding live rehearsals, although we never saw them “attending services online,” and we saw them perform to a packed church at Christmas.
Sunday, February 26-March 5
Mindy helps Lillian craft her ‘social media’ presence, and recruits her “boyfriend” Pete to write Lillian’s author bio. Pete and Darin deliver a spinner rack to the bookstore.
March 6-19
Various, one-off strips featuring Ed, his family, friends and neighbors. No Funky Winkerbean characters appear.
March 20-26
Jeff searches his attic in vain for his collection of Spiderman comics, before heading to the Komix Korner to purchase a Spidey omnibus edition.
March 27-April 2
Inexpicably, Jeff now has comics in his attic, but decides to sell them before Crankshaft’s wacky attic-installed garden irrigation system threatens to ruin the collection. Back to the Komix Korner.
April 3-9
More assorted one-off strips featuring Ed, his family, and friends.
April 10-16
Assorted one-off strips featuring Ed, Jeff, and Pam.
April 17-23
Lillian at the Ohioana Book Festival.
April 24-30
Crankshaft’s girlfriend and fellow bus driver Mary requires rehab following the senior class trip.
May 1-7
Jokes about Ed blowing up his barbecue grill.
May 8-14
Reporter Skip Rawlings from the Centerville Sentinel arrives at the Valentine Theater to inquire about new owner Mason Jarre’s plans for the theater’s reopening.
May 15-21
A slow week for the bus drivers as the parents of all the kids (save one) inexplicably opt to drive the kids to school themselves.
May 22-28
When the newspaper isn’t delivered on time, Ed is forced to read his cell phone while taking a dump.
May 29-June 4
Ed overpays for his Bean’s End order.
June 5-11
Random gags involving Ed and his buddies.
June 13-18
Lillian goes shopping for a new writing desk. She eschews the modern, modular, ergonomically designed offerings in favor of an old rolltop desk in the corner of the furniture store.
June 19-July 2
Mason Jarre arrives in Centerville for the grand reopening of the Valentine Theatre. He’s picked up at the airport by Crankshaft in his schoolbus.
July 3-9
Miscellaneous gags involving Ed and his friends and family.
July 10-22
Pete invites Jeff (and Jeff’s imaginary child self) to San Diego ComicCon.
July 23-29
Ed and his buddies discuss their investments over coffee.
July 31-August 7
Jeff drags Pam to the Komix Korner.
August 7-13
Ed Crankshaft must endure a humiliating physical exam by a snarky woman doctor.
August 14-27
Miscellaneous gags involving Ed and his friends and family.
August 28-September 3
Bus garage hijinks.
September 4-10
Lillian and her book club reading Ulysses.
September 11-30
Ed’s dealings with a grandmother who’s determined to get her grandchild on Ed’s schoolbus. Later, he is visited by the ghost of Pop Clutch, a fellow schoolbus driver who suffered a heart attack and died when Crankshaft dallied while transporting him to the ER.
October1-8
Ed Crankshaft vs. the autumn leaves.
October 9-15
Bowling.
October 16-22
So the fire department has a surveillance camera in Crankshaft’s house to alert the FD when Ed attempts to light the fireplace.
October 24-November 4
Pete brings Mindy to the closed Montoni’s pizzeria, and shares with her his idea of leaving the comics industry to buy and operate the restaurant. Almost as an afterthought, he proposes marriage (again). The Pizza Monster makes his annual apperance.
November 5-12
One-armed newspaperman conducts the shareholders meeting of the Centerville Sentinel.
November 12-19
Miscellaneous gags involving Ed.
November 20-26
Thanksgiving week gags involving Lillian’s rum balls (made with hard lemonade) and Black Friday.
November 27- Dec. 3
Pete and Mindy prepare for a meeting with “the owner of Montoni’s” (you know who) to discuss Pete buying the pizza parlor.
December 10-16
Lillian and Hannah prepare another batch of holiday rum balls.
December 17-31
Pete and Mindy get ready to reopen Montoni’s. They get some help from Max and Hannah, who arrange a visit from the Channel One news van, and from everyone who bought the restaurant’s fixtures at auction, who show up en masse to return everything.
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