Anyone follow the Crankshaft comic strip in the paper? Crankshaft is the grouchy retired guy who has a side job driving a school bus. He enjoys making the kids and their moms run to catch the bus. Anyway he’s been invited to see his neighbor’s model railroad. In today’s strip he’s chomping at the bit to take control of the railroad. I suspect mayhem will soon occur. If you want to take a look, go to the following link: http://seattletimes.com/cgi-bin/comics/archive.pl. http://seattletimes.com/comics/crankshaft.html The story line began on January 28th.
Today’s Crankshaft – yes the predictable disaster has occured. And the layout is that of Keesterman whose mailbox Crankshaft regularly destroys with his school bus.
It was actually a pretty well done sequence of strips this last week about model trains and I wonder if the writer or the artist knows someone or is himself a model railroader.
We’ll see if they make it a recurring feature because there is no end of damage a klutzy visitor can do to a layout …
brought a smile but one thing caught my eye, Centerville that’s the original name of Centralia. I wonder… though I don’t believe the post office was near the tracks the most prevalent occurence that I have found was a UP and NP train head to head accident.
On 1/29 he said “I bet you wasted a lot of time on that” I have heard that from a few people too.
The father in For better or worse comic strip is an MR too. One strip had him working on the RR and getting side tracked until he finally ended up spending the whole day and all he had to show for it was a tree with no leaves that looked like a twig from his back yard. Funny how comics imitate life sometimes.
While entertaining, the disappointing thing about comics is they are all too often predictable. Maybe thats how people are, I guess, but I’d enjoy them more if they would show something happen that we wouldn’t expect. We of course already know this Crankshaft is going to wreck the guys trains and cause havoc.
