Crankshaft by Tom Batiuk and Dan Davis for March 24, 2025

A week of hilarity! 25 militarized cops and Ed—VS A FLY! 425 bullets later, a cop: “Oops, we missed the fly.” (Ed’s neighbors all cheer!) ED: “I’m not dead yet!” (His neighbors all sigh.)

Cranky fell victim to swatting.

Well, it’s Ed, and he’s the main character of this one…unless you count the fly. And let’s face it, we’ve all been there: you’re feeling generous and trying to get the little bugger out the door without resorting to lethal weapons. Thumbs up.

Let’s face it, anything’s better than “My Free Meal with Skip.”

So he’s imagining that because of the word swat, or we missed several panels?

Ed Crankshaft is a team player?

There’s Crankshaft!

It’s called swatting!

Oh, Ed, what have you done now?

……..nothing like a little excitement on Monday morning.

In defense of the fly… it’s not the insect’s fault that Ed smells like a rotting corpse.

Thanks for bringing Crankshaft back, even though we are now in a story where the police force has congregated at Ed’s house (1) to swat a fly? (2) to take Ed into custody? (3) in a case of mistaken identity? (4) due to a prank phone call? Tune in tomorrow for no answer because we’ll be back at the cafe with the boring cartoonist and the newspaper man. Batiuk is now a stream-of-consciousness cartoonist.

Wow, and just when I was thinking it couldn’t get any more boring than a comic book writer storyline, along comes today’s offering to prove me wrong.

Fly robin fly up into the. sky some how that was a hit song

He must be having a bad dream.

Crankshaft is having a Walter White moment.

He’s a one man swat team.

Why does the fly have Vincent Price’s face?

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha what a laugh riot.

Talk about changing the storyline! And starting it out like this?