Crankshaft by Tom Batiuk and Dan Davis for March 22, 2024

How about a nice big bull’s-eye?

(Seething with RAGE) “CURSE YOU, GRANDMA…[checks notes]…JOHNSON!”

Boy, the hammering home this week that Ed hates children and the elderly and doesn’t want to do his job just allows the humor to grow exponentially, does it not?

Can we paint the back of the bus to look like the prisoner transport bus?

What about all different colors and say The Partridge Family on the sides?

After so many years being school bus drivers these insufferable imbeceels is not know why it is paint in bright yellow colour?

National School Bus Glossy Yellow since 1939.

Panel 2: That building looks like it could have a sigh with “Arbeit Macht Frei” posted above the doorway.

Ed finds a loophole when he purchases his own bus and paints it any color he wants.

I don’t recommend camo. I had an old military style vehicle (VW Thing) that I painted in desert camouflage, with an Africa Corp logo; and it worked too well. Several times I had to dodge off the road, as other drivers simply didnt see me.

Well he gave it the “ole college try”!!!!!

YES! I nailed it yesterday. I’m…..proud?

Now to see if he goes through with my other prediction of Ed deciding to just run over the lady.

She’s a wily lady – she’d still spot the bus.

i guess ed has never read the teachings of gandi and desmond tutu !

Why would Grandma Johnson want to catch a school bus? Unless it is Crankshaft she is trying to catch.

Crankshaft wasn’t really all that popular at school

But I remember well the day I thought

Now, that guy’s pretty cool

He pulled into the parking lot and everybody cheered

‘Cause he’d gone and painted his entire school bus

Camouflage, camouflage

It disappears when it pulls out of the garage

Camouflage, camouflage

Well, I asked Jenny to the prom

And her Grandma Johnson knew how to sew

So she made a matching tux

And gown from Duck Blind Mossy Oak

We took pictures in the backyard

Before we went to the dance

And the only thing that you can see

Is our faces and our hands

Camouflage, camouflage

You should’ve seen the way it popped with her corsage

Camouflage, camouflage

Ain’t nothing doesn’t go with camouflage

You can blend in in the country

You can stand out in the fashion world

Be invisible to a whitetail

Irresistible to a redneck girl

Camouflage, camouflage

Oh, you’re my favorite color, camouflage

You can blend in in the country

You can stand out in the fashion world

Be invisible to a parent

Irresistible to a redneck girl

Well, the stars and bars offend some folks

And I guess I see why

But nowadays there’s still a way

To show your Southern pride

The only thing as patriotic

As the old red, white and blue

It’s green and gray and black

And brown and tan all rolled into

Camouflage, camouflage

Designed by Mother Nature and by God

It’s camouflage, camouflage

You’re my favorite color, camouflage, yeah

It’s funny, because the mechanic took Ed’s dumb suggestion to the school board! That makes him look even dumber than Ed!

Enough with this story……..

BRICKS! SO MANY BRICKS!

I’m so excited School District Mechanic is a new regular character! I’m really looking forward to him being fully integrated into the cast next week and not just vanishing after this week of completely random non-sequitur bus jokes are done! I think he and Ralph Meckler are really going to play off each other well.

Depressed Mechanic: You have no f*cking business to be in this job after murdering your friend, Pop Clutch.

Give it up CS you may have met your match.

Gee, so the board of education wouldn’t allow you to paint a school bus camo to aid in it NOT picking kids up for school?