Crankshaft by Tom Batiuk and Dan Davis for May 30, 2024

“After all, we have to make sure somebody shows up to mourn at our funerals!”

So there is a lot of under the table gambling on who won’t survive.

DAY THREE OF TABLE-MOVING ACTION!!!!

“Am I hitting on my daughter, or some very same-looking gal? Who cares! In this town, we’re all cousins!”

You wouldn’t think women would go for guys who played a sport with that name…?

“You see, kiddo, I always hated your grandmother! Now I’m out for all the floozies and fun girls I can get my wrinkled mitts on!”

Is today’s joke amusing? Not especially, seeing as Ed is canonically dating fellow bus driver Mary. Are the Panel Three half-smirks annoying? Yes. Are we ever going to actually see the softball team in action? Probably not, at this rate. Still, it’s not Harry Dinkle, so I give it a thumbs up.

That’s the same as going to an incel convention hoping to meet girls… pathetic.

It’s called meeting!

“…and to meet women!”

Are there any women in either of those towns that we haven’t already seen them meet?

“Uh huh. Look, can we wrap this up? Mindy and I still have to wash the dishes, serve our other customers, cook the pizzas, wipe down the tables, balance the cash register, mop the floors, empty the trash, wash the windows, and wind up the band box.”

Fits well with Montoni’s. They make pizza “for the fun of it.” No chance of profits here!

What happened to the hole in the table for the umbrella?

Motive under motive!!!!

Since all the female characters in the Funkrankyverse are played by the same woman (probably Jenn Erika from “Ink Pen” after that strip went into reruns), you’ve already met them all, Ed. And been turned down by all of them.

Seems to me that if the point of the softball league is to meet women, it should be sponsored by a law firm, not a pizza joint. In particular, one specializing in restraining orders.

Okay, Ed. If there are any women to meet while they’re playing softball. Most of them are most likely married in that town.

Then you don’t need a sponsor. Get white T’s and markers and make your own team.

Attaboy Cranky…..athletes attract women……….really!

eh if it rain they stop making pizza to bring tables in since no umbrellas ?

Women love a man in uniform.

OLD wimmen….