Crankshaft by Tom Batiuk and Dan Davis for February 15, 2023

Yeah Ed can melt the snow. And everything else as well.

Yeah, the Fire Dept. will make super ice sculptures putting out Ed’s fire.

Everything is going according to plan.

A leaf blower would work better.

A hero emerges… and he kept. The. FLAMETHROWER. YES. YES. YESSSSSSSS.

First time an ice sculpture contest ever burnt to the ground!

Where might one acquire such bizarre headgear?

Maybe Ed has learned how to adjust the setting to something under 11

If you learn from your mistakes, he should be approaching genius level by now

Cranky’s reputation proceeds him like a dark cloud of doom.

Suddenly, Crank breaks into song! “I am the god of hellfire, and I bring you fire!”-The Crazy World of Arthur Brown

That heat gun might be useful-in the hands of somebody else!

Will somebody please take that flamethrower away from Ed?

Cranshaft only waited two weeks to recycle a joke !

That’s my man……

Today in Northeast Ohio, it was 68 degrees and sunny. I know it’s just a comic strip, but I find it funny that even the weather seemingly snarks on the strip.

I was afraid this story wouldn’t make sense as it went along, but it’s hard to argue the logic of someone using a flamethrower to offset a major snowstorm. I mean, it’s not like flames would also melt ice.

It is easy to tell which of them has met Ed before.

Haha! XD