Death Hits the Comics

The spectre of death haunted the comics today, and not just in Funky Winkerbean:

Crankshaft 7/18/08

After a night of marital bliss (and by bliss I mean a night without Crankshaft's horrible puns), Crankshaft's daughter and son-in-law have come back to the son-in-law's mother's house to find emergency medical teams just outside the door! While readers have been held in suspense regarding the fate of the son-in-law's horrible, er, sassy and loved mother for the last twenty-four hours, a much more likely answer was waiting for them today. Obviously, she has taken her last night alone as an oppotunity to kill her much-hated caregiver. All of this begs the question: how is this funny?

Marmaduke 7/18/08

"Unlike Marmaduke's yard, which is filled with the shallow graves of his enemies."