Crankshaft by Tom Batiuk and Dan Davis for November 25, 2024

Crispy, eh? That’s right, Ed, retraumatize her by hinting at the Quiet Riot arson incident! This is your best “return to your own strip” ever!

Biggest mystery here is why cat is not knock down them candles off the shelf yet.

And why would anyone puts candles over book shelf inside book store anyways? (Especially when there be cat in there). To increases chances of fire hazard? Not tells me this is what actually gonna cause them book burnings.

Yeah, it’s just the folks from the Winkerverse who need Ed translated.

Mr. Malaprop is here.

I love Ed’s malapropisms!

Well, on the plus side, Ed’s back with his “muddled aphorisms,” and the FW infestation is non-existent.

“What, you don’t know Agatha Crispy? She writes food-themed mysteries like ‘Murder on the Panda Express,’ ‘The KFC Murders,’ and ‘And Then There Was Naan’!”

Is he still driving bus and leaving kids stranded…???

the mistaken use of a word in place of a similar-sounding one?

Back to “burnin’ down the bookstore”, eh?

Cranky is back! Let’s hope it’s for good…

Agatha Crispy: Wrote a murder mystery involving Lena’s brownies.

Pam?

I thought Pam was Cranky’s daughter. Are there now two of them, or is this the Batiuk time machine in operation again?

She’s the cooking detective. Right?

must be a cookbook

He wants the Harlan Sanders biography.

You would think Lil would have better sense not to have lit candles by paper