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Well, Crank My Shaft!

Whaaaaaa? and double Whaaaaaa? This week we’ve gone from time-wasting non-punchlines to jam-packed exposition and mind-melting comics crossovers! Where to begin? Here’s an old man named Ed, looking for his daughter, the “well-known Chris Crankshaft”? If she’s well known and has an outlandish last name like that, why does Ed have to wander Central Park asking the homeless to help “locate” her? I’m not a long-time reader of Crankshaft, and I understand that Ed is stubbornly old-school, but has he not heard of the Google?

Chickenst one day, chickenst the next

And as quickly as it arises, the whiff of intrigue dissipates. Les’ reunion with Apple Annie Apple turns joyous, rather than confrontational. He recalls Annie the former she-hobo, clueless that she’s the one who has his lost manuscript stashed in her top drawer.

Wait Just a New York Minute

Methinks Les smelleth a rat? So then…when did he put two and two together and surmise that Apple Annie got her mitts on his lost “masterpiece” back in her Central Park days? Just now, sitting across the desk from her? Or was this whole trip to the city, ostensibly on Montoni’s business, carefully set up so Les could have his big scene?

billytheskink is Clarivoyant

billytheskink, April 12, 2010 at 9:15 am:
Les came all the way to New York to find out that his potential publisher is in his back yard?

Yes…yes I guess he did. Well done, BTS. Snark away, everybody…I got nothin’.

Les is Not Im-pressed

Meanwhile, back in Metropolis, former-bag-lady-turned-semi-attractive (by FW standards) literary agent Ann Apple informs Les that “we may have found a publisher for your book (this deal’s not done yet?): the KSU press.” And what is Les’ reply on hearing that he’s on the verge of finally accomplishing something?

“That’s great news, Annie; you really came through for me.”
“Kent State University Press? I had to fly to New York City to have my book published in O-friggin’-hio? Ya fired!”
“Sounds like a winery.”

Yeah, you guessed it, Les went for the “funny” response. “Funny” as in here’s a guy who dreams of being published but doesn’t associate the word “press” with printing, only with red, red wine. Maybe Annie, the former bum, will appreciate the “pun”.