Crankshaft by Tom Batiuk and Dan Davis for October 16, 2024

Cranky’s favorite season … because he is prone to fall and us unable to spring back up.

You just want to misuse the leaf blower

It’s a garden implement that is also a person of low repute, Alex said. “What is a hoe,” said Ken Jennings. “What is a rake” was the correct answer.

Funny how fast those leaves fell, just so Cranky had work to do. But at least he’s back – for now, anyway…

I had an Ash tree in the back yard of the first house I bought. The first night of a hard freeze the leaves would all fall before daylight.

Ha Ha Ha Ha Haaaa! It’s funny, because… Lilian completely ruined Lucy and Eugene’s future happiness?

It’s his second favorite season, because of all the havoc he can create in trying to remove the leaves from the lawn and gutters. But his number one favorite is still summer, when he gets to launch his grills.

happen to me yesterday, looks the same this morning a it did before I started

Why don’t you just BURN them, Cranky?

Don’t just THINK about it, Ed – just DO it (blow the leaves over to the next yard with your blower).

They’re good for the soil.

Let it be………

I think Lil agrees with Ed’s unsaid sentiment in the last panel. She has to find someone to pay, and, rake up that… in her yard. (She could ask Ed to it, after he does his kids yard, but her homeowners insurance premium is high enough as it is. I’m surprised that there isn’t a rider on Ed’s kids homeowner’s policy, forbidding him from touching ANY power tool.)

just waiting for mud to play muddy boots you gray panthers can have these bad leave puns

As soon as the leaves turn color Ed’s OCD kicks into high gear.

Well, fall has done fell. Someone alert the Fire Department. Ed’s about to do a rake and bake with the leaves. Ed’s recipe is simple.

Ingredients:

1 pile dry leaves

5 gallons of gasoline, 10 if you want a more robust burning

1 match

Steps:

1. Rake leaves into a big pile.

2. Saturate leaf pile with gasoline, use every drop.

3. Toss lit match onto the now gasoline soaked pile of leaves and run like HE!!.

4. Say hello to the Firefighters when they arrive.

I wish the leaves would all fall at once. My trees like to meter them out over a period of weeks, so I have to mulch several times. Being able to do it once and be done would be awful nice.

Now we know why so many Senior Citizens move to the desert

What’s this? A Crankshaft comic strip featuring physical comedy and two original Crankshaft characters?

Welcome back!

Leave the leaves where they land. Next year there will be no grass to mow. Happiness abounds!

You know, after weeks and weeks of THE BURNINGS, there’s something to be said for a nice, simple, anodyne sight gag. Thumbs up.