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

OK, that is a good punchline! Entirely from the art (WHUMP) not the writing. But it’s 7 panels for a 4 panel joke. In newspapers, do they just crop the first row out? And now it’s snowing. Climate damage? WILL THERE BE MORE GHOSTS?!

Well, at least we got that trope out the way quickly enough. Plenty of room for more “Pop” Clutch’s ghost tomorrow, I guess.

Fall has fell,

And snow as well.

Ed is right,

Cold in sight.

(I know, I know——my poetic abilities leave much to be desired!)

No, fall isn’t shorter but it seems to pass more quickly (as does everything else) because we’re older.

Maybe you should’a called it “autumn” in their presence, and not “fall.”

It will be 80 next week.

A pair of trees behind the office where I worked would go from fully leafed to bare in a single day.

Obviously this is the work of Pop Clutch, trying to kill Ed in revenge. He needs to try by using something more lethal than leaves.

What? Not one single leaf left in the tree to bedevil Cranky? Talk about the boat left the dock and Tomas’ was still in the parking lot.

In the last panel….looks like it is snowing!!!!

Blame your writer for dragging out a painful arc for so long.

It’s the climate change that some politicians say isn’t happening, Ed.

One year, when I still bothered to rake leaves, I was standing with my back to our black walnut tree when I heard a “WHUMP”. I turned around to see the black walnut had dropped all its leaves at once.

Wow! That was fast!

This comic strip is beautiful and funny. Even the lettering in the name “CRANKSHAFT” is excellent. The characters, the background, the fence, the snow. Wow. And Wow! Just Wow. – Okay, another toke on my hookah and I’m off to Pickles.

Only one massive raking. Okay by me…..

sally forth did a better leaf joke a week ago

Better then what’s been in the dailies for this strip.

The seasons be a shiftin’

To quote one of the characters from the movie “Little Big League”: “Bite Me!”

That’s climate change for you.