Crankshaft by Tom Batiuk and Dan Davis for September 04, 2023

Where’s Crankshaft?

Is this in fact the third year that they’ve read Ulysses, or is it the third year that they’ve tried to read it before soon giving up? And is that a Miss Marple manikin in the corner, or is it the desiccated remains of Mary Worth?

For those wondering, the figure on the right is Norman Bates’ mom.

Boring!!!

Whoa, the twins are there, too.

Ulysses is inappropriate for any age.

Running over mail boxes!

Maybe this will be the third try will be the charm and we actually get past the first chapter.

One of Molly Bloom’s soliloquies in James Joyce’s epic novel ‘Ulysses’ features a sentence of 4,491 words.

I’m too busy reading books to join a club to discuss them

Reading that book might become a long odyssey.

The self-hate is strong in this group.

Is that Lucy’s ghost over there?

Mary Worth showed up but she’s for once rendered speechless. She even forgot her muffins.

Ulysses chronicles the appointments and encounters of the itinerant Leopold Bloom in Dublin in the course of an ordinary day, 16 June 1904…….can’t wait!!!!

I’m surprised it isn’t “Lisa’s Story”. Otherwise, who is that ghoul all the way off to the right?

Who’s the English Nanny type?

I miss Funky Winkerbean.

its back to this old crow again even mary worth hates her

Why is Mary Poppins there?

I believe Sylvia Beach (over on the far right, clutching a purse as if she really doesn’t want to be here) is a cardboard cut-out.

I mean, an INTENTIONAL cardboard cut-out, unlike the rest of the people in the frame.

Looks like someone is enamored with the “Nausicaa” passage. Porn for old people.

Batiuk is being unusually cruel to his characters today. Not only are they going to attempt to read and discuss “Ulysses,” they have two underage kids in the group, so there will not be any wine.

Miss Marple?

And the head coach wants no sissies,

So he reads to us from something called Ulysses.

- Alan Sherman – Hello Mother Hello Father

Could it be?! Miss Marple?

I’ve never read ‘Ulysses’. Is it that hard to get through?

It’s taking y’all that long?

Miss Marple needs a chair

I hope 1 day this book will be public domain so I can also read it.