Crankshaft by Tom Batiuk and Dan Davis for July 24, 2024

I am shocked by that re-volting comment.

Panel Negative One: ED, to Guy: “My grandson Mitch is learning to read, who is the grandson of me, ED CRANKSHAFT.” Guy: “So, ED, your GRANDSON is lear—” ED: “Shut up, I’m eatin’ my prunes & waffles here!” ED’s tummy makes a weird sound; he jumps up and runs for the bathroom. “SORRY, gotta ROMEO here!*” (* “Really Old Man Eliminating OMG!!”)

CSRoberto, today is your time to shine.

New teaching method … shock therapy to correctly pronounce the words …

…and the crowd goes wild!

Whut??

Correction: Great-grandson I do believe.

It’s called reading!

HEEEEE’S BACK !!!!

“Glad” to see that you are getting your usual morning (or is it moaning?) stretches in billy! LOL…

I believe Crank musta missed that lesson!!!!!!

Geez, Norm Crosby was so much better at Malaprop, in fact he was a master.

if he couldnt finish his french fries whys he eating waffles ? plus he has window in the back then cobwebs in the back ? is this the work of timemop ?

Ed, if your grandson (or great-grandson, as biology would insist) really had such good electrocution, you’d have been killed in an unfortunate toaster-bathtub-related “accident” by now.

I believe the son of your grandson is referred to as a great-grandson. No wait… I am sure of it.

There was a comedian in the 60s named Norm Crosby whose act consisted of malapropisms. He was very funny. Anyone remember him?

This is really a pretty typical “Crankshaft Classic” (that is, before the hostile takeover by “Funky Winkerbean”). Did TimeMop® (the Rather Elegant Solution™) send us all back to the Good Old Days?

A bargain today — two malapropisms for the price of one! Of course, I didn’t pay anything to see this comic…

Isn’t Mitch Ed’s great grandson? He’s Pam’s grandson- the son of her son.

Well, Mitch looked like he was 6 or 7 last time we saw him (in literal strip time he should be 4 1/2), but that still puts him way ahead of Ed on a literacy schedule.

If it really was his grandson, the kid would be in his 20s at least. And he’s just learning to read? But since they referred to him by name as Mitch, who we’ve seen, and is his great-grandson, this kid is developmentally challenged too as he was well into elementary school age.

Cranky is back!! Finally!

Guile: Sonic boom!

What a shocking development.

Attaboy Ed. Love the Spoonerisms