Crankshaft by Tom Batiuk and Dan Davis for November 18, 2023

Thus year he needs to alert NORAD to prevent an impression that the US launched a missle at a foreign country.

I’m actually embarrassed for Batiuk.

When a gag wasn’t funny the first twenty times you used it, well, the twenty-first time has got be to the charm, right?

“… and no, nobody can stop him! Ever! All of us, the fire department, NASA – we just have to stand here and wait for the problem to happen! We are all completely powerless to stop anything bad from happening!”

“And since he keeps running over mailboxes and pre-schoolers…He has to wear that ankle monitor!”

And so the week of unrelated Ed-centric gutbusters ends with a barbecue doozy that Batiuk couldn’t squeeze into the busy Summer schedule but was just too good to forget until next June. At least he could be trying to grill the Thanksgiving turkey.

Is it too late to see if Skip Bittman got the Keane kids to deliver the Centerville Sentinel along with the Family Times?

As someone who’s lived in Northern Ohio, I can say that that MID-NOVEMBER is prime grilling season! Make sure you have the essentials: a metal can of gasoline; a grill overfilled with camel poop; an orange labeled bag on the ground of spilled mulch; and a big ol’ plate of delicious brown objects to grill! Wait…are these camel poop too?! “GRA—AAA—MPS!” Crank: “WHAT?! They’re vegan!”

Ed, there’s a Chinese ‘weather balloon’ headed your way……..

Oh boy Gasoline flavored turkey

“No, I mean, why is he grilling in mid-November? It’s thirty five degrees out here.”

Inhaling all those vaporized petroleum distillates explains a lot about Crank.

It’s futile to contact those agencies. They’re understaffed, and no one will answer.

I started this morning off by watching Elon Musk blow up his newest rocket (it blowed up real good), and followed that by reading Crankshaft. The difference is, the Starship that blew up got a lot further, and eventually (when they’ve blown up enough of them to learn how to make it fly without blowing up) will take Americans back to the moon; while Crankshaft’s grill just blows up the same way over and over and over, going nowhere, learning nothing.

You’d think he’d learn not to use gasoline to light the grill. And you’d think THEY would refuse to eat anything cooked over gasoline! Hmmm…. have we ever SEEN anything that he’s barbecued?

Makes sense to me.

maybe just get him a george forman grill if there still around

He’s launched it at least once a year, for the 30 years I’ve read this strip … so which time, Pam? WHICH TIME?!

Good old Crankshaft!

Miracle of miracles, Batty Whack actually remembered a past story line!

Not that that’s always a good thing…

Get him a wood pellet grill with automatic feed.

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Gasoline?? Well…that might explain it!

I feel like Batiuk has to do “hey, remember that joke I did in the past” strips more than anyone else.

Not THAT again…

Where’s the fire department? Aren’t they monitoring their spy cameras on Ed today?

It’s nice to be wanted…..

,,,,ounce of prevention.

Haha! (＾▽＾)