Crankshaft by Tom Batiuk and Dan Davis for February 23, 2024

Hahaha, random unwanted sexual advances are funny!

Ironically, Ed is old enough to have done the same thing on the actual V-J day.

That’s Crankshaft, once again celebrating VD Day.

He’s not kissing her: he’s turning her into a Crankpire.

Or V-UPX Day, as it were. Great imagery, Tom and Dan!

Pretty cute. I’m a sucker for WWII stuff.

All right Ed, he still has fire in him and not just his grill and house.

3rd panel that was removed, Ed laying on sidewalk after she smacks him with that bag that has a brick in it.

“…Of course, deliveries are backed up for 6 months!” Ed shrieks, goes all Hiroshima on…a storefront that has not been seen since 1950. At least Tom knows his audience: Angry old relics.

A late life romance?

Ed, You could of shopped local

BREAKING NEWS! School bus driver arrested for sexual assault.

Who cares how old she is? Who says she’s not desirable anymore? There are plenty of older men who would love to date her. I’m almost 65 and I wouldn’t want Cranky hugging me like that, I’d push him away and tell him to keep his hands to himself unless he wanted me to call the police!

Ed’s statement to the police will say: “I don’t know what came over me, it was a sperm of the moment thing”

See you in court, Ed. And I don’t mean tennis court.

They delivering those seeds to Ed in prison

Don’t relax just yet! Now those workers have been taught they can get their way through striking!

No way I am going to LIKE today. SEXUAL ASSAULT is not innocent fun.

holey likely lawsuit, Batman!

Tomorrow, we meet the woman’s husband;a retired pro wrestler

Add that to the other charges Ed should be facing.

You’re going to be in trouble, Ed.

Oh the passion of it all!!!!!

Talk about ICK! I first thought he was walking with Pam! Not that this is any better.

VJ Day was a celebration…the sailor kissed the girl out of joy and not for any other reason. Cranky is just celebrating!

This comic should come with a trigger warning. Normal people should just bring popcorn.

I do like how the news reporter is stunned into silence by what he is witnessing.

Soooo I’m guessing Snoopy randomly kissing the girls in Peanuts is NOW sexual assault too?

“Ed, don’t — the guy on the TV in the window can see us!”

ok a tv in the window in 2024 ? plus how is it so loud ed can hear it unless he just bought miracle ear

Very funny and evocative of V.J. Day — Aug 15, 1945

The woman who was kissed unwillingly died at 92 and is buried with her husband at Arlington National Cemetery. The sailor died at 95 and was never charged.

He’s just helping take out some food stuck in her teeth.

This not funny. This just disgusting.

Please let the woman have a mace. Not “a can of mace,” a mace—the big iron club used by medieval knights.

Can’t paste link, but search on [photo man kissing woman returning from ww2].

Crankshaft’s woman friend won’t be happy about this. :-/

I get what this event is referencing. I realize they’re just cartoons and not real people. It’s still a creepy thing to depict, without at least showing the character being smacked or pepper sprayed.

I skipped thru the thousand or so daily negatives…this is just plain funny!