Crankshaft by Tom Batiuk and Dan Davis for March 23, 2024

No matter how you mix up your start times and vary your speed, you still have to be at that fixed location sometime in the morning, because it’s a school day and that house is on your route. Mystery solved.

Well, once again a wearying, weeklong Ed arc ends with a joke that’s actually kind of amusing. I give it a solid “B.”

It would have been comedy gold if that were a Predator drone armed with a Hellfire missile or ten.

Cranky, you’ve been LoJacked.

Blue and Gold, vs a sadistic fascist dressed in Red? Guess we know who Crank voted for in the Russian “election”! (88% voted for Vlad! In unrelated news, 12% of Russia just fell out of very high windows)

Eh woulda be easier and cheaper to plants a GPS tracker on bus doesn’t cha theenk?

stop me where I go off the road here; most school bus roofs have a number painted on them for aerial identification, most school bus electronics also contain a GPS locator, so the only way Ed can avoid detection is to switch buses with another driver.

Nice and lovely perspective artwork. Artist really good, a master cartoonist. Now if only its called writing was of similar quality…

Ha! Ha! Good for her!

Grandma Johnson going to flash Ed

Smarter than the “average bear”!!!!!!

Ooohhhhh, a DRONE! That’s SURE to win that Pew-litzer Prize!

or got sent to siberia with summer clothes

A drone? Well the garage mechanic discovered the tracker Grandma Johnson managed to attach to Ed’s bus,

at least eds not a crybaby like judge parker

The length he goes to to insure that a kid misses his bus… HOW is he still employed?

Oh sure, Grandma knows all about drones…..this ‘toon needs AI……………

Granddaughter turned her on to drones.

That’s what happens when you play hard to get.

Crank has met his match!! LOL

That’s because Granny is more technically advance than you Crankshaft.

Is Cranky being stalked?

Bummer Ed. Looks like you actually have to pick up at least one kid today.

Death from Above

Good thing she uses that drone so that she knows that Ed will be coming down her street. Like he does every school day.

If see has done you in while wearing pink fuzzy slippers and robe, you’ve really lost your touch, Mr. C.

BYW, I appreciate the drone’s shadow on the bus top… at the bus stop.

Grandma Johnson looks harmless enough to me….