Crankshaft by Tom Batiuk and Dan Davis for April 02, 2024

And yet somehow it will it all blow up

I forget – whose house is it?

How about the “air” in “airhead”?

Wait till you see the crate of $2 solar eclipse glasses he got, and to sell at $18 each.

The eclipse must be a sign of the Apocalypse, Batiuk actually put together a timely storyline!

By the way, enjoy having a house full of unvetted strangers! Better lock up your jewelry and check your homeowner’s insurance to make sure you can do this legally.

Does the housing authority know about this illegal scheme?

I wonder if Ed will make a profit here.

The best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men!!!!!!!!

Actually that’s how AirBnB got its name. Some guys in San Francisco started out renting an air mattress in their living room.

Why would anyone want to pay big money to see something where you can’t see anything?

Tomorrow: Harry Dinkle shows up with a restraining order, claiming Ed’s infringing on his exclusive right to run Mattress Fundraisers.

will he get montonis pizza and sell it ten dollars slice ?

Geez, what’s the big deal, it’s a solar eclipse. Anyone with a brain knows that it is just the moon passing in front of the sun. No warnings from the Gods, no need for virgin sacrifices or cowering in a cave somewhere.

He’d have a compressor or auto-inflator.

I live in the path of the eclipse of 2017 and there was a big demand for a parking place but few people stayed overnight.

I wonder if he is giving people ideas?

Batuik finally correctly timed up his year- in-advance-written stories with an actual real world event. The eclipse is apparently only the second sign of the apocalypse.

At the mention of “air in Airbnb,” Crankshaft points at Mindy and excitedly declares, “Air!”

New Crankshaft prices: Air mattress $25. Air mattress filled with air $30.

I’m not far from Toledo, Ohio, where the current forecast for Monday is…rain.

I live in Texas, in the path of totality, but just barely. We’re having some friends from Georgia come to visit. They have a condo in Pawley’s Island, South Carolina, and we made plans in 2014 to visit them in 2017, for a total eclipse, and likewise planned for them to come here this year. Last year we had an annular eclipse. I thought the 2017 eclipse was magical, and hopefully this one will be also. Unless I live to age 97, this will probably be the last total solar eclipse I will get to see.

Of all the inhabited planets in the Universe, how many do you suppose have a moon of just the right diameter rotating at just the right distance needed to produce a total eclipse? I’ve got to think it’s pretty rare. One might even say miraculous.