Crankshaft by Tom Batiuk and Dan Davis for October 17, 2023

Might as well alert the County’s ……… Mutual Aid …….. STAT!!!!!

;-)

“And he’s packing it with C4! Glad we put cameras in every home!” World’s laziest cop: “Well, after 30 years of arson and child murder—maybe we should do something! Like, put on our jackets! Won’t have to dry clean the bits of humans from our dress shirts! And then wait for a call, I guess, IDK.” If you spend TEN SECONDS thinking about CS, which is 11 more than the author ever did, this is not the whimsical wonderland of humor the author thinks it is. It’s a nightmare hellscape where a madman runs wild, and no one cares. You know dang well that cop’s not going to stop the deranged freak, but to have dinner at Denny’s for 3 hours. (VERY LOUD EXPLOSION) “YOU deal with it! I’m not done with my Moons Over My-Hammy!” (Lillian’s head explodes against window) “Really?! Not now, I’M ON MY BREAK!”

And before you start screaming “It’s a comic strip!” Tom claims “It’s a quarter-inch from real life.” Dude, this isn’t even an Earth-Moon distance from reality! There is no reality in this strip! This is written by a guy who last left his house in 1990, got confused by a breakdancing Garfield, and hasn’t left since.

Don’t wait for the call! Get over there NOW before he lights it!

Talk about deranged… LOL

Looks like the hidden spy cameras are doing their job!

Why haven’t Pmm and Jff told Ed to stop doing that sort of garbage. Don’t they own the house. They should tell him to knock that stuff off, or they’ll send him to Bedsore…er, Beside Manor.

Thank goodness for modern equipment! Now the firemen have a much better way to keep people’s homes from being totally ruined from fire or other sources such as noxious gases.

Pour some gasoline on it, and get the flamethrower to light it.

Nothing like a good “play by play”!!

This is Crankshaft for Petes sake, what in the world could possibly go wrong???

Typical Ed Crankshaft disaster. Overkill.

Holy crap…..really!

So we’re rehashing yesterday, basically. Guess we can predict the next 3 days of strips.

the tuesday special at margo lanes is half price nachos

The suspense, it’s like something by Hitchcock…my neighbor, Elwood Hitchcock. He can’t tell a funny story, either.

Ya know, some of these comments are WAY too critical about the subject the author chooses to draw about. The “funnies” are just a bout that! To have fun, to mock day to day life. I you think it’s a serious subject like the political cartoons, then maybe its time to stop reading them, and take your brooding nastiness elsewhere. Over the years Crankshaft has given us warnings to not do foolish things. Too bad if that’s not your take-away.

So if Ed or Pmm or Jff find out that the fire department has hidden surveillance cameras IN their house, spying on them in all manners of dress and activity, the lawsuit they can file would be worth millions maybe. Just enough to cancel out all the damage Ed has done over the years.

Haha! (＾▽＾)