Crankshaft by Tom Batiuk and Dan Davis for February 13, 2025

Since when was any kind of intelligence a thing in the Funkyverse?

Huh? What happened to the drunk mayor? A crystal ball is AI? Oh, Ed, you were doing so well this week, and now… I’m not mad, but I am disappointed.

♪♫ He said, "Marie Laveau, you lovely witch

Gimme a little charm that’ll make me rich

Gimme a million dollars and I tell you what I’ll do

This very night, I’m gonna marry you"

Then it’ll be (mmmmmm…), another man done gone ♪♫

Sign says hypnotist, not a fortune teller.

So was Washington DC

Crystal GPT eh.

Artificial Bullschit too..

This means Madam Marie (the fortune teller who would go on to encounter Les, Lisa, Crazy Harry and Donna in Act II) is much older than Ed, and is possibly ageless

This was clever.

Once again, artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.

And you never did make it to the big leagues!

too bad batty writes this stuff so far in advance a fortune teller could have told him he should be doing jokes about the price of eggs hed have material for weeks

Crankshaft, you are artificial intelligence. In fact your intelligence is about as artificial as it gets.

Calling a fortune teller a hypnotist is exactly the kind of mistake LLM-style AI’s make. Maybe this strip was created by BattyGPT.

I like the little detail in panel two, where you can’t tell whether that little pink sausage is Old Guy 3’s ear or Ed’s finger trying to stir the biscuits and gravy on his plate. Copy-paste “art” at its finest!

Before China …..and a lot cheaper!!!!

The bunko squad is outside the tent