Crankshaft by Tom Batiuk and Dan Davis for April 03, 2024

Clearly, Ed is a man of vision.

Great, now Batiuk has me doing it.

Another failure …. just “waiting” to happen!!!

;-)

Careful Ed, remember what happened to the guy in the Bible who kept expanding his barns.

Ed thinks he’ll rob everyone blind, but there’s no way he’ll see a profit.

“dosen’t seem right”…. He has to to turn a profit. Bautik gets how eclipses work, but not how buisness works, which is on brand for him.

Centerville, Ohio. Where is Engagement, Ohio? It is located somewhere between Dayton (Datin’), Ohio and Marion (Marryin’), Ohio.

I don’t see anything wrong with profiting from the fact that some people wait until the last second to think of these things. That said, I doubt he’ll sell quite that many boxes.

During the pandemic Cranky was one of those hoarders who bought all of the toilet paper and sold them for a huge profit.

Did Crank take out a home equity loan to pay for all this stuff?

Doesn’t bother me. I still have mine from the partial eclipse of 2017. I did the LED light test and they’re still good.

OK, now I KNOW we’re going to check in on Monday to see it pouring rain.

He can afford it on that bus driver’s salary

Oh eye see.

And that’s when Pam decided it was time to take control of her father’s finances.

I mean, look at that – how many thousands of dollars did he possibly spend on the glasses alone?? Ed’s a school bus driver, he doesn’t make THAT much money!! And the eclipse is Monday, how could he ever hope to sell all those glasses? There’s a huge red flag going up here. Ed is not able to handle his own money any more.

and the day of the eclipse, heavy cloud cover and torrential rain obliterating the event.

There’s an article in Forbes magazine in which an expert predicts the path of totality maps have a slight error. Some places near the edge of the path predicted to be in the path won’t be, and some predicted to be just outside will actually be inside.

Oh, well. He’ll have to wait like another forty years for the next eclipse. He’ll be a spry 150-year-old.

So each box probably contains…1000 glasses? And he bought maybe 30 cases? This makes sense. Does he also have 30,000 air mattresses?

And who here doesn’t see a future installment where the faithful day is overcast and rainy ruining Crankshafts plans, once again?

Though April Showers may come your way….they bring the flowers that bloom in May…….

Pipe dream………play the lottery!

Shouldn’t Ed be getting his grill ready for launch into orbit?

Ed, just try to make a small profit. This could be a once in a lifetime opportunity.

On news, there is town in Tenn or Kentucky that has the total eclipse line over it AGAIN. Last time 8 21 17. This never happens. Last time line was \ this time /.

It “makes” an X on the town

Ed; don’t you think that most of your…guests, will already have their own eclipse rated glasses? My mobile provider even offered them as a promotion.

ed calm down would you like some zucchini quiche ?

At least. What is a person’s vision worth?…..

How will this “story” end on Monday?

A: a single panel in which all the characters admire a glorious solar eclipse? Easy enough for Batty to “write,” though it’s not clear Ayers left any eclipse clip-art for Davis to copy-paste. And Batty must know that happy endings don’t lead to the P. U. Litzer prize.

B: a single panel in which all the characters are standing despondently in the pouring rain? Again, easy to “write” (and easy to draw), and the award-bait Serious Human Misery that Batty loves. But, since he “writes” this stuff a year in advance, is he willing to risk looking like a fool when Ahia basks in glorious sunshine?

C: nothing about the eclipse at all; instead, the start of a new “story” about Mopetoni’s Pizza and-or* Komix? After all, there’s a hard-and-fast rule that comic-strip stories must be short.

Casino windows are open, in person and online. Place your bets now!

can’t use the standard and-slash-or because the nannybot interprets the slash character as a URL and they are Not Allowed. If this is “artificial intelligence” in action, we have nothing to fear.

Let me guess… next week he’ll be running for President.

Calling it now. Freak thunderstorm rains out the eclipse. Peanuts did it decades ago.

Crankshaft sold supplies to forty-niners in a former life.

Hahaha! See, its funny because Crankshaft is a price gouging grifter!