OK, that is a good punchline! Entirely from the art (WHUMP) not the writing. But it’s 7 panels for a 4 panel joke. In newspapers, do they just crop the first row out? And now it’s snowing. Climate damage? WILL THERE BE MORE GHOSTS?!
One year, when I still bothered to rake leaves, I was standing with my back to our black walnut tree when I heard a “WHUMP”. I turned around to see the black walnut had dropped all its leaves at once.
This comic strip is beautiful and funny. Even the lettering in the name “CRANKSHAFT” is excellent. The characters, the background, the fence, the snow. Wow. And Wow! Just Wow. – Okay, another toke on my hookah and I’m off to Pickles.
billsplut 9 months ago
OK, that is a good punchline! Entirely from the art (WHUMP) not the writing. But it’s 7 panels for a 4 panel joke. In newspapers, do they just crop the first row out? And now it’s snowing. Climate damage? WILL THERE BE MORE GHOSTS?!
J.J. O'Malley 9 months ago
Well, at least we got that trope out the way quickly enough. Plenty of room for more “Pop” Clutch’s ghost tomorrow, I guess.
ArcticFox Premium Member 9 months ago
Fall has fell,
And snow as well.
Ed is right,
Cold in sight.
(I know, I know——my poetic abilities leave much to be desired!)
Macushlalondra 9 months ago
No, fall isn’t shorter but it seems to pass more quickly (as does everything else) because we’re older.
Robert Nowall Premium Member 9 months ago
Maybe you should’a called it “autumn” in their presence, and not “fall.”
Carl Premium Member 9 months ago
It will be 80 next week.
Geophyzz 9 months ago
A pair of trees behind the office where I worked would go from fully leafed to bare in a single day.
Mopman 9 months ago
Obviously this is the work of Pop Clutch, trying to kill Ed in revenge. He needs to try by using something more lethal than leaves.
GFox49 9 months ago
What? Not one single leaf left in the tree to bedevil Cranky? Talk about the boat left the dock and Tomas’ was still in the parking lot.
rockyridge1977 9 months ago
In the last panel….looks like it is snowing!!!!
B UTTONS 9 months ago
Blame your writer for dragging out a painful arc for so long.
WilliamVollmer 9 months ago
It’s the climate change that some politicians say isn’t happening, Ed.
Lynnjav 9 months ago
One year, when I still bothered to rake leaves, I was standing with my back to our black walnut tree when I heard a “WHUMP”. I turned around to see the black walnut had dropped all its leaves at once.
ladykat 9 months ago
Wow! That was fast!
JustPlainBob 9 months ago
This comic strip is beautiful and funny. Even the lettering in the name “CRANKSHAFT” is excellent. The characters, the background, the fence, the snow. Wow. And Wow! Just Wow. – Okay, another toke on my hookah and I’m off to Pickles.
raybarb44 9 months ago
Only one massive raking. Okay by me…..
lemonbaskt 9 months ago
sally forth did a better leaf joke a week ago
Otis Rufus Driftwood 9 months ago
Better then what’s been in the dailies for this strip.
EXCALABUR 9 months ago
The seasons be a shiftin’
AB9SS 9 months ago
To quote one of the characters from the movie “Little Big League”: “Bite Me!”
ToneeRhianRose 3 months ago
That’s climate change for you.