Though you Beady-Eyed-Nitpickers have done a bang up job with your Cranky commentary this week, I promised you a weekly Crankshaft Post. So here it is!
T.C.I.F. Twisting Crankshaft Into Funny
Book It!
As Y. Knott, Duck of Death, and our other Crankshaft correspondents have informed us, Lillian is currently at the Ohioana Book Festival, which is going on for realsies this weekend. I briefly had considered going, (seriously,) just for a wacky vacation road trip with a wacky destination. I’ve already forced my housemate, partner-in-crime, and heterosexual life partner, to promise that someday we’ll do a fun Funky tour. But we couldn’t go this year due to the very following crucial factors:
1.) Cows.
Still, probably would have been a low-key fun time. Especially since I’m pretty easy to please.
Continue reading “Book It!”Morally Bankrupt
I just know that when I’m on my deathbed, I’ll be lamenting that portion of my lifetime that I spent contemplating Funky Winkerbean.
TF Hackett, April 12, 2023.
The Crankening.
As a newcomer, I’m mystified as to why Crankshaft ISN’T being covered here by rotating commenters on a daily basis. (Other than perhaps after years of covering FW, the regulars are burnt out — except clearly, they’re still posting, so that wouldn’t seem to be it.)
From the standpoint of keeping the blog fresh, CBH’s epic deep dives are fun … but even CBH seems to be giving herself six months before she either runs out of energy or archive material. And I’m sure none of us want to burn CBH out!
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ONLY talking about the old stuff seems more insular, and isn’t as involving to me. I mean, I can chime in with “Yeah, I guess that WAS weird.” But I wasn’t there for it when it originally happened, and so I don’t have much more meaningful to add.
Y. Knott.
That is a very good point, Y. Knott. And something I’ve been pondering back and forth too. So don’t feel like I’m calling you out! You just were the one to most clearly put into words something I’d been pondering.
First of all, Cranky complaining in the comments is ALWAYS welcome, as far as I’m concerned, and Ducky has been great with providing a Crankshaft report there. Don’t let Epicus scare you off!
And I do have to laugh about the idea that I was there for any of this Act II stuff. Nope. In 2003 I was in high school ranting to other nerds about how Elrond isn’t really half-elven, (he’s 9/16ths elven.) While BJ6K’s comment, “Scratch a Funky Winkerbean hater, you’ll find an ex-fan. I certainly was one.” is true of so many here, it is not true of me. I was lured into comics commentary on the basis of snark alone about ten years ago, and became obsessed with Funky Lore via Chris Sims ‘Funky Watch’ on the website Comics Alliance. I’ve only been at this for about a decade.
Some of this Act II stuff is new to me, so it’s like I’m getting to snark on it for the very first time!
But you’re right. Some of our commenters seem happy to leave Cranky languishing. But some seem hungry to comment on current events.
People here respond to different kinds of posts, I’ve noticed. Some people really latch on when CBH goes personal, or serious. Some people are obviously here for the humor. Or the history. Or the tangents. Or the parodies. That’s why I’ve tried to mix up my approach to the deep dives. And why I’ve done some days of just plain parody. I want everyone to get a little of what they like, even if it’s not every post. The variety also helps me keep things fresh.
We, so far, haven’t found a way to hack the system and get Crankshaft early, which would muck up the way several of our old guest hosts would do their shifts. Many of our old guest authors are taking a well deserved break from more than a decade of the Batiukverse looming over them. They’re thinking about retirement, emeritus status, or just the very occasional post.
I’m no where close to burning out as long as you people are content with only two or three posts a week, and have SO MANY old topics that I’ve been wanting to sink my teeth into. I’ve got folders of stuff I’ve already pulled togeher. Running out of old material to discuss is just not possible.
But I am not at ALL adverse to also discussing current Crankshaft.
Unfortunately, Cranky since January has been pretty anemic. We’ve had multiple weeks of completely disconnected gags of the type Cranky has seen over and over and over again. If you told me everything BUT the comic wankery had been written by a chat bot, I would believe you. It is snarkable, but there’s less to work with. It’s all fluff, so it wouldn’t sustain the blog very long if we went to pure Cranky, because we’d start to repeat ourselves. It’d be like trying to say something new about mashed potatoes.
I have wondered about doing a Crankyweek recap once a week. Just some parody strips and snark. Short and sweet. For example.
Whadda you guys think?
The Empty Tomb
In my insulin shock following a dangerous cookie binge, I let another very important milestone pass by yesterday.
April 9th, 2010 was the date of our glorious leader TFHackett’s first post on the brand new Son of Stuck Funky, successor site to the defunct blog Stuck Funky.
So here’s to THIRTEEN YEARS of SOSF!
And boy, what an ironic first post.
Son of Stuck Funky 
