Seriously. Brief Digression. But why isn’t Crankshaft an easily pissy old coot any more? Doddering, Confused Cranky is LAME.
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I didn’t say it before, but Cindy’s Miraculous Pregnancy won in its category by the highest margin of any of the awards this year. But it wasn’t the only landslide victory. For Example.
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I fell out of love with DC Comics shortly after the Flashpoint mini series in 2011. For those of you who aren’t unbearable nerds stuck forever in a calcified pop culture past that gets increasingly distant as the years crawl by, Flashpoint used Barry Allen mucking around back and forth in time to, in universe, give an explanation why the editors could now reset whatever bits of continuity they felt like. It’s like, a butterfly effect, see, ripples in reality…some things are different…some things are the same.
I described it like a beloved relative having a stroke.
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My Snarkers and Nitpickers, Dissectors and Shitposters, Haters, Apologists, Defenders, and those of you who just check to see if I post pictures of cows.
Welcome, one and all, to the long awaited 2024 Crankshaft Awards Show!
And WHAT a special Awards Show it is. For this year, for the first time (I think) since TFH promised HeyItsDave a signed copy of Lisa’s Story, we have an actual physical award to hand out!
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Voting closes Friday!
In the meantime, longtime commenter and snarker hitorque popped back up and said something that once again got me musing on the metaphysics of the Funkyverse.
We’ve talked a lot about Batiuk’s beliefs and potential lack thereof. Normally he treats religious/metaphysical questions like a pseudoprayer given before a multicultural family reunion. Vague, big tent, feel good, theism with just enough winks and nods to agnostic toleration to make all but the most militant atheists feel mostly at ease.
Which is fine, IMO. I hate Batiuk the most when he’s thumbing his nose at traditionalists. I prefer him playing coy.
And for a guy notorious for having a world where everyone thinks the same, looks the same, and talks the same, there’s hints that he made an honest attempt to give his characters differing philosophical viewpoints without making any of them (except Roberta, of course) a strawman loser.
Some couples did get married in churches. Fred and Ann Fairgood, Pam and Jeff Murdoch, Crazy Harry and Donna Klinghorn, Bull and Linda Bushka (Until food poisoning from rotten ranch pizza interfered.)
Pam, Jeff, and Lillian seem to have the most hints of long term church involvement, with some arcs dedicated to them doing church activities outside of Christmas, but they’re not the only ones that have lined a pew or made an offhand reference to a higher power.
Funky himself was for a time, pretty solidly agnostic, and even had an arc in 2004 dedicated to philosophical musings with Wade.
And for those of you in the ‘Batty Pro Atheist’ camp, he did have Funky quietly pick up church attendance later in life. So make what of that you will.
Son of Stuck Funky 