Crankshaft by Tom Batiuk and Dan Davis for December 15, 2023

Y’know, Lillian, you might have to be worried about dementia coming for you. It runs in your family – remember your sister, Lucy? The one whose marriage you sabotaged? Yeah, that was you.

Disappointment! I wanted to see how two people worked at that undersized kitchen counter on a one-cook process!

I’m no James Beard, but it seems to me that, if you were planning to make a recipe called “Jamaican Rum Balls,” one of the first things you would do would be to make sure you had a sufficient quantity of rum on hand.

Crankshaft: You give us one week, we’ll give you an old lady making rum balls.

Rum, cooked in, makes everything better. Kind of like bacon.

“So THAT’S where the rum went!” Lillian gasps as she vomits again, Hannah holding her hair back.

and a Very Happy Holidays too You . . .Hic

Lillian, Now: “I LUV U HANNAH!!! You my best friend! Or Mindy, or Princess Peach…Y’know. Whoever you are.” 2 MINUTES FROM NOW: “HANNAH MINDY!! I HATE YOU, B!” (attacks with that jar of Miracle Whip) 10 MINUTES FROM NOW: "But…Offisser…She…thing did… "(passes out, vomits some more)

Well it’s certainly going to be a happy christmas at their house.

Sneaky girl!!!!!

Where’s Crankshaft?

A lot of holiday themed strips wasted on this endless rum ball dialogue. I put up my framed Crankshaft strip of 11-27-2016 that I bring out as a decoration every year—of him watching Scrooge on TV. Crankshaft where have you gone.

Ha ha ha, hilarious. Instead of adding water(?) to her cranberry relish she dumped in half a bottle of rum. She shouldn’t be living alone.

I want the cranberry and rum recipe!

I think we have found Aunty Acids, older, boozing sister.

Hi, Captain Latepants here. So, the secret ingredient in Lillian’s rum balls is hashish? Alice B. Toklas would approve.

I assumed the secret ingredient was her sister Lucy’s tears.

“I can’t believe we barely had enough rum for the rum balls.”Lillian is having blackouts!

Another recipe to add to the safe it would seem……

pa rum rum rum rum…

Next time buy an extra bottle or two.

“ why is the rum always gone?” Captain Jack Sparrow.

Now let’s see what she can do with the plum pudding and hard sauce

Haha! (＾▽＾) You’d think that after the last time she would’ve made sure she had enough rum!