Crankshaft by Tom Batiuk and Dan Davis for December 16, 2023

Finish them off, Ed, not even you deserve to be sober while facing Lizard Lil.

Ed really loves her rumballs. She knows he was the guilty party.

Well!!! That certainle settles things.

They’re settling in my stomach.

Ed, had Lil over for dinner? The things one will do for a rumball.

P3: It looks as if we’re about to have a rum ball rumble.

Hahaha, it’s funny because she spent the last five days making rum balls for everyone to eat, and now Ed’s eaten nearly all of them! See, Lillian made them, then Ed ate them! That’s gold, Jerry, gold!

There might be some settling of Cranky after Lillian uses one of his “inventions” on him.

Leaves be gone gutter system;

Flamethrower; …

I wish she’d share the recipe.

Also settling: The syndicate, newspaper feature editors, comics readers…

Is it a good time to play Gin-Rummy? Now that all those ‘balls’ have finished their settling that is.

Ed denies everything, then dances away as he sings “Rumboogie.”

You shouldn’t have left the room with both him and the rum balls in it.

Other people like them too.

Settling. That’s right, they settled in Ed’s stomach.

i guess they go back to pizza next week because they mentioned those decorations in the basement.

In your stomach it would seem Crankshaft……

Well, Krankshaft finally got something to do…….

I had a narcissistic friend who loved my almond crescents, as did just about everyone who tried them. We were going to the home of another mutual friend for a party so I brought about, maybe 20 or so of the cookies to put out with other desserts. I gave this friend a little sandwich bag with about 6 or 7 of the cookies for him and his gf. He stood by the buffet table and reached into those cookies and ate every single one. Did not leave one for anyone else. I should have said something, but I didn’t. He said later that day he “had a bellyache”. That was just a minor display of his selfishness and lack of thought for other people. I think he ate the all the cookies in the sandwich bag, too, because his girlfriend seemed perplexed when I asked if she got the cookies I “sent him home with”. This is a 60+ year old man, not a person in their late teens or early 20’s.

Ed must be a functioning alcoholic if he pounded all those down in a flash and he’s not even slurring his malapropisms.

Then again, he didn’t even give us one today, so maybe he is drunk.

HAA!! “Settling”!

Kinda like how Tom was going to come up with a really good punchline to finish this week’s story arc. But, he settled for whatever today’s strip is, instead.

hmmm…Crankshaft’s breath smells mysteriously funny…

Can’t eat just one………

The battle between Quality Control and Self Control continues…