Crankshaft by Tom Batiuk and Dan Davis for January 28, 2024

So Batty has made it into the recent past and heard of the Starlink satellites. This one must be a year old, as usual. The Starlink satellites have been modified to reduce their brightness. I don’t think you can even spot a stream when it’s deployed after launch.

So, the grills are all floating in the sky, somewhere between 30 to 250 feet above the ground, unaffected by gravity? Yeah, makes perfect “subtle” “ironic” sense.

Can we go back to the PT therapy dog drowning its sorrows at the local bar tomorrow?

Even James Van Der Beek thinks the reporter’s head is too long and narrow.

I just can’t believe this is true.

Batty mailing it in – on a Sunday too

Since those grills are probably made of steel, today’s strip is only partly “ironic”.

And the humor is also not “unalloyed”.

Somebodies dream!!!!!!!

Apparently Ed timed each explosion to occur precisely when the previous “launch” debris was approaching in orbit. And we though Ed was dumb.

Wow, that was some launch!

Yep the old ratio of 1 gallon of charcoal fire starting fluid for every 24 briquettes. That will do it every time.

A few? If Musk, Branson, and/or, whoever, had Ed’s success rate, the private outer space companies would put NASA out of business.

“I wasn’t trying to, but after the first couple, I didn’t change anything about the way I lit the grill.”

next weeks storyline ed and lillian sit on a couch eating savory baked goods and repeating the same thing over and over .its never been done before .

And to think I can see it thanks to my ‘StarLink’.

You go there and wait for us.

Aren’t we coming up on the one year anniversary of the Chinese spy balloon story?

I suspect we’ll soon be “treated” to a series of strips where a spy balloon gets shot down by one of Crankshaft’s grills.

Can we go back to seeing how the old “Funky Winkerbean” gang is doing?

Maybe Crank should work for NASA or SpaceX.