Crankshaft by Tom Batiuk and Dan Davis for February 14, 2024

Oooh, maybe the next block will be a good block! Let him try again! It’s only Wednesday and the strip needs more filler!

Is the chainsaw dangerous? Or has it, like this strip, run out of gas?

Crankshaft is going to be badly iced by the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW), Greenpeace, BlueVoice, and other groups are all devoted to saving dolphins.

Yup, there’s a punchline worthy of single-panel status. The fact that this is the third day in a row depicting Ed’s eff-up just makes it all the “funnier.”

I think he did it on porpoise.

THUR: “The sun is out!” FRI: “And it’s melting the block of bad ice!” SAT: All watch it melt, while not opening envelopes. SUN, we all gasp in relief that this emotional roller coaster has ended—but Crank says “SQUIRREL!!” and chases it with the chainsaw.

More like a bad block of head…

Spray some water on the cut and glue it back together.

Definitely going “viral” with that pic from the "young fish’’????

No, it was a bad Ed with a chainsaw.

It would appear this is the Catch 22 Lt. Dunbar type of humor.

Or just a bad comics writer…

TRUE STORY

I belong to SONS OF THE DESERT,the nationwide Laurel&Hardy fan club.

At a convention years ago, we were acting out a scene from THE MUSIC BOX, and invited to wreck a used piano with a sledgehammer.

On my first try,the sledgehammer handle snapped in two.They almost had to cancel the event. People looked at me funny for the next couple of days.

Was CITY HALL refitted from Ahia’s last remaining shotgun house?

Please, somebody tell him he’s holding it by the wrong end.

When Krankus talks about a “bad block of ice,” he’s referring to his own cold and hard heart.

And the guy that messes it up always blames the materials or tools

Wait- what happened the minute before?

crank says he always carrys a tube of superglue if he wants to fix it

Well, at least Cranky is back…

No just a Block Head with a chain saw.

Just like an AR-15, it was the chain saw’s fault.

This is what happens when leave handling to someone who launches grills into orbit.

Get some glue! Wait! Get some spit!

I’m trying to decide if this is funnier than when he ruined another recent ice sculpture display when he backed the school bus into one that apparently was carved right on the curb, and it toppled them all over because they were arranged like dominoes.

Oh, also, time for the obligatory why read it if it stinks? And unless you write your own comic…

They are doing the same jokes ere every year, just in different ways. Why do I still read this?

Geez, it’s an ice sculpture. Spray some water on the joint and glue it back together.

Mindy is standing there like she never saw him before in her life.

A flimsy apology at BEST……

Gettin a lot of mileage out of this joke.

Good week of Crankshaft but I am being repetitive

A decent week of what I THINK are repeats, and I like the extra detail that Crankshaft’s daughter.. just isn’t suprised. Everyone else is confused how this very possible thing that happens when you hand someone whose not trained in it a chainsaw could happen but she’s like “Yeah that tracks.. are we going to have to pay for this?”

A bad craftsman blames his tools (or, material)

How about we transform this story to the 1500’s? Michelangelo is almost done painting the Sistine Chapel and he hands the brush to Ed saying, “You give it a try!”. I mean that would make as much sense, yes? And then Ed spills paint all over half the ceiling.