Crankshaft by Tom Batiuk and Dan Davis for December 17, 2024

Or—and I’m just speculatin’ here—you could be honest (to a degree) and tell Lena that the cookies weren’t as good as in years past, then ask her about the recipe with hopes of fixing it. Admittedly that wouldn’t be all that funny, but neither is the stale old “Lena’s a lousy cook and doesn’t know it” routine year in and year out.

On the other hand, here’s Crankshaft!

Ed and his malapropisms strike again!

Crankshaft dragged out of comics retirement at age 95.

Sometimes a steam remoistening improves things. I adopt the old ‘dunk and soak’ coffee, milk… Schnapps.

Don’t hurt to ask?……in this case it mite!!!!!!

Haha…what a smart a$$…that’s actually pretty funny.

We’re out of the bookstore and back to Crankshaft on a Tuesday. It must be the Christmas spirit.

They’re all afraid of offending Lena, because they don’t want worse assignments than they already have.

Don’t make her feel bad? Every year they tell her they suck. Actually, throughout the year whenever she bakes anything, so why worry now?

ed thinks to himself well these cookies are better then that vegan junk i had at charterstone the other day

She such a solid cook see.

Admittedly that wouldn’t be all that funny, but neither is the stale old “anything by the Trolls of Crankshaft bunch"! LOL…

Ed is just too tactless to be believed! You can always count on him to hurt Lena like this. Of course, she could get back at him with this careless bus riding with having mothers chasing his school bus with lunch bags.

Ah, a classic Crankshaft strip: Lena’s terrible baking, her complete cluelessness about how bad her baking is, the attempts by the other drivers to be nice, Ed’s blurted-out semi-insult, and not a single FW character in sight. I have no complaints.

That is funny! Crankshaft’s line made me laugh aloud!

What does she do wrong time after time? If you follow a recipe, it’s not that hard. Are they overcooked? Does she consistently use baking soda instead of baking powder? (that ruins the entire batch….did that when my friend and I were about 12!) But at least, we learned our mistake. I’m a great baker now.

during a remodeling job on a kitchen the cook mistook the bag of cement for flour The biscuits were very hard.

Just happy to see Cranky…

“You’ll have to give us the recipe.”

And be sure to not keep a copy for yourself!