Crankshaft by Tom Batiuk and Dan Davis for January 05, 2024

OMG, tomorrow Crank’s going to say “But not as much as I love—EARLY ’60s DC COMICS!”

It’s CANON that Ed was illiterate until just a few years ago, or decades ago, or the Cambrian Explosion, who knows what time means in the Battyverse. But, wow, he’s HIP to the KIDS TODAY with something Tom just found about, and by “kids today” he means a Hot Topic in a 2005 mall .

All right, where’s the real Crankshaft?

So does this discussion of dystopic fictional futures lead into the promised “burnings”?

This is twice in 3 days that Lillian has told Ed “Huh, weird. All along, I thought you were stupid.” Ed accepts the thinly veiled insult with a mild smirk. “I mean, like ‘put your shoes and socks on in that order’ stupid. When you said you were ‘street smart, not book smart!’ you meant you were as smart as the chunks of asphalt curbs your plow throws in our roads every winter. Well, back to lying under my sunlamp to eat live crickets.”

AH, here I am again at the friendly comments on Crankshaft from all who could better than Tom!!!!

We get sixty new minutes of Future every hour.

Honestly.. I like the crankshaft stuff a lot more. Yes he can be a jerk.. but generally he can also be funny when their not doing the same malproper gag every month. I like the slapstick. I don’t like Tom Bautik doint a whole arc basically goign “REMEMBER THIS STRIP.. THAT MOST OF YOU PROBABLY READ SINCE THESE STRIPS HAVE A LOT OF OVERLAP BOTH BY FANS AND PEOPLE POINTING AND LAUGHING AT MY INCOMPETENCE? IT SURE WAS GREAT WASN’T IT”. I don’t mind Tom bringing in elements from Funky, it’s a common thing for a spinoff to get bits of the mothership if it ends before they do. But that arc creeped into him just.. flat out writing an arc of funny and without a bearded man being irate at it, it’s just not entertaning.

But what did William Gibfather say?

Batiuk thinks if he dips his toes into progressive politics some more, it will spawn that Pulitzer Prize he so desperately wants.

The globe is warming thanks to Montonis reopening and their pizza ovens on all the time Batty

“Yep, Lil, I’m a big fan of soberjunk!”“You mean cyberpunk!”“How little you know me!”

“…you read science fiction!”

Anybody who reads the “news” these days gets more than enough fictional “science”.

This took a bad turn. You can never get your hopes up here.

Crankshaft “read”?

What do you think he is doing when he blocks traffic with the school bus?

Listening to audio books.

Timemop probably beamed the knowledge into Crankshaft’s brain!

The art of seduction.

Old Ed isn’t as stupid as most people think he is.

Careful what you ask for, you just might get it. lol

….or the fact that he reads

I’m just grateful that he didn’t use the phrase “climate damage” today.

who knows who Walter Gibson is?? ha ha ha

Great one Ed

And to think… a few years ago Ed was illiterate!

I’ve been able to read since childhood, and am a big sci-fi geek, yet I had to google who William Gibson was..

Atta boy Cranky…atta boy!

I want to know which William Gibson book that was. I think I’ve read most of them.

When did he learn to read at all?

i read over sixty strips a day and if it wasnt for mark trail and luann crankshaft would be rockbottom

Aaaugh! William Gibson has been mentioned in Crankshaft! Now I can never read Gibson again! What part of my childhood will Batiuk ruin next?

Haha! (＾▽＾) It’s the same w/ me & horror & heavy metal. You wouldn’t know it to look at me that I’m a superfan of both.