Crankshaft by Tom Batiuk and Dan Davis for September 01, 2023

Count your blessings – she was going to add bb’s and glass flakes.

Does she ever try her own brownies? I’ve never seen her eat one.

The only thing that might help Lena’s brownies would be if she made them as Marijuana Edibles

They would still probably be awful, but after a few, Crankshaft wouldn’t care

Now I want to make brownies!

Save them for sprinkling on snow-clogged roads.

Oh no! Not sprinkles! The horror!

……some think they can improve basic food…it is OK the way it is .

Take them to the airport and use them as wheel-chocks for aircraft.

Are her brownies still made from antimatter?

Instead of hanging ‘round the garage, and, facing those brownies, why don’t they just go to Ed’s favorite diner?

Crankshaft says politely……………

Why does Bats hate Lena, this character that he created? The worst we’ve seen of her is that her coffee and brownies don’t taste good, and yet she’s never noticed no one eats/drinks them. And these diner free-refill parasites never just go to Dunkin. Re-read this week’s strips. Who would you rather have living in your town? The sweet if clueless lady who burns the coffee, or a sociopathic 105-year-old bus driver who causes thousands of dollars in property damage monthly, and maybe has run over a child? “It’s just a comic strip!” Yeah, and so Peanuts would be if Snoopy was a serial killer.

How disappointing. The cartoonist gives us one day of classic curmudgeon Crankshaft, then yanks the football away. I was hoping for more.

Instead, we get another strip where Lacking Lena continues to prove she can’t do anything right. The gutless guys mock her under their breath. Hilarity ensues. /s

Today’s theme is: “A person does something nice for other people and in response, people complain about it behind her back.”

Have you ever wondered why it seems like this strip attracts so much snark and negativity? Have you spent time to tell people here to not post here if they don’t like the strip? If so, I want you to take a look at a strip like today – a good, long look – and think about the kind of energy its attracting.

Just think about it.

Notice Lena said she baked the brownies for the bus drivers to “enjoy,” not for them to “eat.” She is more aware than she lets on: knowing that the only joy these old codgers still experience is the joy of kvetching, she deliberately bakes inedible brownies.

why cant they say there watching there weight for bowling league night

Oh, wowie, it’s another ’Let’s-Bash-Lena’s-Lousy-Baking’ joke. Comedy gold. Fool’s gold, that is.

That is certainly true for this century. . . .

’Tis the sea salt… to be jolly.

STILL HERE

Readers’ thoughts about the Crankshaft comic strip somehow make their way into Panel Three.

Salt on top of brownies? Burn the witch!

Blech! :P