Crankshaft by Tom Batiuk and Dan Davis for January 06, 2025

Great Caesar’s Ghost, we’re back to the “driver shortage” nonsense that was driven into the ground back in November already? I thought Amazon was going to solve the problem. And all this is so Batiuk can offer a “joke” conflating “Zoom” the online meeting service with “Zoom” as in driving fast? Wonderful.

So who’s going to tell Ed? Oh wait . . .

Amazing that we have Cranky for this amount of time…

And the way Ed drives you can’t just mail it in either!

School bus driver shortages are hardly “cute“..

If we can’t zoom can we Google Meets?

Its called zooming!

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And no lining the buses up in zip files, either.

Y’know, the school bus driver shortage is a real thing, and it offer lots of opportunities for three panel gags. For example… Lena pulls back the curtain to reveal a double-decker London bus. The open-top variety, so there can be a future strip involving a snowstorm. Or a gag in which the bus is stuck inside the garage and someone asks who the heck got it in here to begin with (all eyes turn to Ed).

Oh, right, no double-decker bus images in the Crankshaft Reusable Art Portfolio. Never mind… I do wonder how much of this comic’s “three people standing around talking” comes from the limitations of the C. R. A. P.

what no bowling jokes this is a outrage

That would be …..zoom……zoom……zoom……!!!!!!!

It’s a good ploy but a poor official policy……

Shortage? This is the number of drivers they’ve always had…

Let me guess:

One of Batty Whack’s avatars is on the school board, so this provides him with an opportunity to make a disparaging remark about Zoom, because Batty Whack hates EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEvil Technology!

Hey, it could have worked………yeah you re right…..not!

Who cares? Last year we were told only one kid in the whole district rode the bus.

Parents decided to make kids ride buses again.?

What about “Zip!”