Crankshaft by Tom Batiuk and Dan Davis for July 03, 2024

Umm, Mopey, where were you back in the fall of 2018, when the International Space Station took pictures of a barbecue grill launched into outer space, or last May, when the TV networks all reported said grill collided with an asteroid and sent it on a collision course with Earth, and Ed was IDed as the responsible party? Why aren’t you aware of all this? You and Mind-ull were dating/engaged at the time. Were you cooped up in your bachelor pad reading Silver Age “Swing with Scooter” comics?

for a plot twist, could send it thru the center of the earth towards China

Maybe it will reach the shuttle…

If they know it’s a flying grill, then it is just an FG.

Unavoidable Failing Gag

Me thoughts UFG was stands for Unidentified Foul Gas.

Pete takes off the armor and hands it back.

“The engagement’s off! Your family is NUTS!”

At least we’ve got bricks. Glorious bri-, hey, there are barely any! We’ll we’ve got glorious aluminum siding! That somehow disappears in P2.

More like Unwelcome Flying Grill!

Maybe this latest “grill gag“ will FINALLY win Batty that Pulitzer Prize he so very much covets…… nah.

I see we’re back to grilling season.

What are the objects on the ground. I suppose the one to the left of the grill is the empty charcoal bag. But what is the red thing to the right of the grill?

Aren’t there state and federal laws about using fireworks within 150 feet of houses and cars? He’s got a bag of black market M80s there.

That’s a lot of charcoal and a lot of fuel……..free fireworks for the whole community……if they survive………never knew Crank thought about “community service”!!!!!

So he already put lighter fluid on. Now he’ coming with a gas can. And they all just stand around and let him, knowing what’s going to happen.

And all that piled charcoal is only for the barbecued lettuce.

And tomorrow is also “National Egg Frying Day”

I wish Cranky was the center of this week doing something absurd with his grill instead of a week of fricken Pete (yet again) TALKING about Cranky doing something absurd with his grill. C’mon Batty – this is a classic Cranky arc, why are you Winkerbeaning it!

is cranky gonna cook infested salmon ?

If we’re lucky, we might get to see a UFC. An Unidentified Flying Crankshaft.

A grill shot into outer space is fantastic. Fantastic: definition 2 “imaginative or fanciful; remote from reality, seeming more appropriate to the imagination than to reality.” – from Maryann Weber’s Unabridged Dictionary.

Gotta love running gags

Where is the fire department, they were under orders to notify them so they can be there before Crankshaft lights the grill?

people think this is funny and ignore great strips like brilliant mind of edison lee and scary gary !!!!

I did a double-take when I first saw Panel #2. It appeared as if Ed was standing on one leg and his shoe was in the ground. Finally figured out Ed is walking towards the grill with his right leg behind his left.