Basically it was a gag a day comic that had the gimmick of having the characters age as the strip went on. Then the writer did a serious storyline where one of the main characters had his wife die of cancer.
This caused Tom Batiuk, the writer, to believe that the strip will only keep being good and true to life if he throws as much depressing shit at the characters of his two comic strips, Crankshaft and Funky Winkerbean, as possible.
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Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
(The other Jane)