Crankshaft by Tom Batiuk and Dan Davis for December 18, 2023

Where’s Crankshaft?

PS: No, Mindy, it’s not. There’s no similarity to that situation and yours. None.

Twitter was successful, Montoni’s never was. (that I know of)

You need to buy aprons first before you can loose them.

Mopey! Quit spreading the Christmas gloom! Wait for Les Moore to show up!

Yessireebob, nothing gets a big laugh from an audience these days than mentioning that lovable scamp, Elon Musk. This is what comes of writing your strips a year or so in advance.

Mindy in Unseen Panel Four: “Please tell me you remembered to wear something underneath your apron this time, Pete.”

She’s set herself a low bar to clear.

Remember when the Space X rocket exploded a few weeks ago? And Musk referred to it as, not an “explosion,” but an “unplanned rapid disassembly”? Prepare for disassembly, Missy.

It’s like Batiuk is writing these things specifically to set himself up to be snarked on…

“So, when do the employees get here?”

“Employees!!! I KNEW I forgot to do something!!!”

Just in time for Christmas.

I hope the food is tasty.

Looks like Dickens is safe this year. There won’t be any Christmas classics coming out of this.

C. Survive

Where’s the Pizza Box Monster?

If you’ve got the coffee on, you’re in business.

Tomorrow, things get up and running, just in time for a local health inspector to show up and lay a bunch of big fines on them and shut them down.

he hasnt even cooked yet how could he say there ready !!!

So are they lovers or just business partners? Did Mindy invest any money in this venture?

Is that mistletoe above her left, ummm…, chest?

Yep – all set! All you need to run a pizza business is hang decorations and brew a pot of coffee. Open the doors!

Elon Musk’s ego is almost as big as Trump’s, which means he only thinks about himself.

Why is Mindy wearing her Next Generation communicator?

No, Mindy, not quite..

Probably did not figure he was going to lose more money than anyone in the entire history of money-losing.

Nope. Elon is so convinced that he Never Makes a Mistrake that he Still doesn’t know that He Killed Twitter.

Nah,Musk had dreams of world conquest when he bought Twitter.

Haha! (＾▽＾) I doubt it. You wanna keep the restaurant the way it is. Musk wants to get rid of everything that made Twitter great!