Crankshaft by Tom Batiuk and Dan Davis for August 02, 2024

Yes, who wouldn’t appreciate the lingering fragrance of burnt tires on their food, no matter how much it reminds them of lunchtime at their high school cafeteria?

… then to offset the burnt tire, I add a special addictive from California.

Spoiler: On Saturday, the ones who survive asphyxiation will painfully die years later from lung cancer! Oh, the Whimsy of Funky Winkerbean!

Is this going to go on into next week?

Ed’s thinking environmentally, he’s recycling tires

Tires??? OK, time to take the grill away from Grandpa…

This indeed getting tyresome eh. Cough. Cough.

Nice, old tires which when burned emit the toxic aromatic hydrocarbons Naphthalene and benzene. Ed really hates humanity.

Hard to tell which is which, The brownies will burn 100 times longer than the tire pieces, ma’am.

Surprised the brownies will even burn!

Maybe you should cut back on the tires…

Double winner!!!!!!…….use what you got!!!!!

If Batty had stopped after saying the fuel was Lena’s dark-matter brownies, he would have almost had a working joke here. Adding the used tires just makes it disgusting.

Wait. Those special brownies? The ones that smell like a herd of skunks?

No, Ed, no!

I support term limits for cartoonists

10 years everyone will have lung cancer and blame Ed.

ed was the inspiration for vape and burnt marshmellows

Well, the brownies explain how his grill is able to achieve orbit.

BARBECUING OLD TIRES?? JESUS Crankshaft!! You really need to let someone else do the ’cuing if your family and friends want to live!!

Old tires a specialty of nearby Akron. It was a very goodyear

Time to end this and go to something different

And Lena’s brownies make their monthly contractually obligated appearance…

Mmmmmm tire smoked burgers — my favorite

FYI: Smoke from the burning tires will make the food on the grill toxic. It will not be the fire department showing up, but the ambulance.

Dang, he is dumb.

When Lena hears the comparison between her brownies, and, cut up tires….

Tires?! Geez-a-loo, Cranky!