Crankshaft by Tom Batiuk and Dan Davis for August 24, 2023

“But you’ll only have to walk one mile into the woods! I’m the one who’ll have to walk home alone,”

Okay, that one works. B-plus.

Alternate Panel Two Caption: “In a minute. I’m looking at this hilarious comic strip about some old geezer who’s trying to light his barbecue grill and winds up covering the whole area in smoke!”

Go take a long walk off a short pier.

As long as you’re back in time to make dinner!

Crank, “Why two miles? how about 3.14 miles? That would be as easy as pie!”

Ooh, Pmm blows her opening line today. How could she forget to say her catchphrase, “What are you doing, Dad?”

Yea….that is a better response than……..NO!

That’s not nice Ed

Ed walk two miles for exercise? Walk two miles to the diner, to his favorite bar, maybe. But for exercise? Pam, you know your father better than that.

That’s what I would say.

Take the dog with you.

My sentiments precisely…..

Hey, Ed? The best part of your newspaper is right there on the back page.

(Of course, being a crossword puzzle constructor myself, I’m probably biased…!)

Atta boy, Cranky…….

Hmm… GoComics has done a week of indoor-set “Crankshaft” strips, while ArcaMax has done a week of “BBQ Smoke” strips. Only one explanation: TimeMop® (the Rather Elegant Solution™) somehow failed to blot up one of the time bubbles in the Centerville/Worstview Vortex, and we now have one Ed doing weak jokes in the house while another brings the Apocalypse to Ahia in the yard. Perhaps the twin arcs will conclude on Saturday with the two Eds confronting each other and bringing an end to the Battyverse as we know it (could this be the event that ultimately ushers in The Burnings and the ride of the Dead St. Lisa Perfect State?)…

Hmm… this actually sounds plausible. Well, no. But it does sound plausible that Batty would write it.

Well, he did answer her.

Somehow, I can’t imagine this strip lasting much longer…

Ole potato nose is in top form, again.

Haha! XD

I like this one