Crankshaft by Tom Batiuk and Dan Davis for March 17, 2024

Does the board in panel one have a paper tallying “Murders Committed While Driving”? Is Ed on the top of that list too, having killed Pop Clutch, among untold others?

Ed admitted to this on September 30 2023, by the way. See for yourself: gocomics.com/crankshaft/2023/09/30

It’s not that we don’t believe you had a record number of cars behind your bus this morning, Rocky, it’s just that we don’t care.

Notarized statement? Pfui. I’d be more impressed by the police report: “Rocksin Hedd was beaten to a bloody pulp by the seventy-six drivers who found themselves stuck behind his bus as he obstructed traffic.” Okay, I wouldn’t be more impressed, but I’d be more amused by the sight of this obnoxious character wrapped in blood-soaked bandages.

Panel One: Deleted. Panels 3, 4: Deleted. Panels 2, 5, 6: Where I would say the joke lies, but there hasn’t been a joke in this strip all year. This is a Master Class in NOT Writing.

Cranky, the last signed statement is from the sheriff’s office.

It is a citation, one for each vehicle, for blocking the flow of traffic and not yielding to emergency response vehicles.

Well, it’s the third consecutive Sunday attempting to squeeze comedic blood out of this stone. What, did the creators swear off humor on the Sabbath for Lent?

Yes, Rocky, of course the drivers you inconvenienced by making them wait behind your bus would all be perfectly willing to sign papers to verify your world record attempt. Did you go back and contact them after the fact with a notary in tow, or was one of the kids on your bus appointed by the state of Ohio? Sure. Makes perfect sense.

So I guess we’ll never find out what was in the package that Cranky was waiting for…

So many notarised statements? Who is funded the notary’s fees for all that?

Which likely resulted in there being even more cars behind his bus.

Is Ed going to demand verification of all those signatures, notarized, or, not?

I guess that was why the line was so long………….

Deus ex machina

Panel three BRICKS!

So they didn’t wait long enough. They sat there giving a statement and having it notarized?

“It’s NOT that we don’t believe you. But there’s no proof. So we don’t believe you…”

That dope brought ink and paper into this?

ed is off to see if he can get mr show biz autographs and some hotdogs

Wow, this is what, the third Sunday strip devoted to this topic?

Not sure why real school bus drivers don’t hate this strip for making them look so incompetent and careless.

Seems like proof to me…..

At this point, that dead horse is almost unrecognizable.

So apparently a necessary accessory for every school bus is a notary public

What did he win?

At this point I would expect Rocky to get fired.

tom just wishes a woman woud go with him to the bum boat

1) Those notarized statements were made out in triplicate and will be used in the upcoming lawsuits.

2) How far back in the queue was the notary?