Crankshaft by Tom Batiuk and Dan Davis for October 18, 2024

The leaves are back on the tree? That’s a relief! For a moment I was afraid Mr. Batiuk would impose a little continuity in this strip, but I see he’s in his usual unique form today.

Anyone out there willing to risk their cervical spine to read today’s non-joke?

Also, why not spell the tree guy’s name “Bunyan” while you’re reaching for the low-hanging leaves, Batiuk?

Owwww! Mine neck.

Injecting super glue into the trunk will certainly harm the tree, and the leaves will still fall… but only for one more time.

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I takes a cartoonist as brave as Tom to write an 8-week arc about basically nothing, then expect everyone to know the only thing Tom knows, a “how to do the browser monitor turn command thingie” to read something that we all know won’t be funny. Kudos, Tom!

I guess Batty thinks that everybody still reads a newspaper that you can turn 90°…

It will, however, kill the tree, which I guess solves the problem anyhow.

I always ponder if it’s worth a neck sprain to read these. I should know better by now.

Wow…I can’t believe that was a thought!

Why is that man laying on top of Crankshaft?

What’s with the weird panel arrangement? Is Tom worried that he’ll lose his Pulitzer prize to Slylock Fox?

Years ago, I spent a morning drinking my coffee and watching a neighbor up on his ladder with his blower/vac trying to suck the leaves from his tree. This insanity lasted for a little over an hour and ended when his wife got home from the grocer and started yelling at him for making a fool of himself. It truly saddened me when he moved as he was a continuous source of entertainment for the neighbors. I did consider him a genius however when he installed one of those bird feeders that spin the squirrels off into the sky when they hop on it. I think it was called a Droll Yankee.

Spray painting the tree with a clear resin might do the trick, however….

Unfortunately, “tree huggers” (such as myself) can’t think this strip is funny today.

Gave it the “ole Cranky try”!!!!!

Nice thought though. That’s why God invented fir trees. Though they have their issues also…..

invite crank to a halloween party to bob for apples then have fat freida sit on him when its his turn

I didn’t know Ed was related to a guy that thought that injecting household disinfectants could cure covid.

Consult with Ted Forth on the leaf issue

No keys needed. I can still tilt my head sideways.

They should charge Ed fifty bucks just to answer that stupid question! Besides, next year you’d have TWICE the number of leaves!

Me (at workplace): Hello, tech support. I need a new monitor. It fell over and broke.

Tech Support: Again? You’ve got to stop reading Tom Batiuk sideways strips.

batty cant wait to cranky deep frying a turkey

So he called out a tree service, paid probably $50 for the appointment, then asked for a stupid service that he could have inquired about over the phone? Ed is either loaded or poor.

I have a neighbor like that. Every year he yells at me that leaves are blowing from my yard into his… while standing there we can both see that the wind is blowing them from his yard into mine… the usual direction of our winds is to blow from his yard into mine…

One year he blew his leaves into my yard, but then some of them did get blown by the wind back into his yard… he blamed me – said once those leaves were in my yard they were my responsibility… (but, of course, I am also responsible for leaves in his yard)…

Trying to keep yourself from raking leaves, Cranky?

LOL. sounds like an idea to me.

In the meantime, I’ll charge you $100 for this consultation…