Crankshaft by Tom Batiuk and Dan Davis for January 15, 2024

It’s funny because.

Okay, Pmm, this calls for desperate measures. Tell him the doctor says the only way to fix the whiplash is to keep breathing!

You don’t want a massage, Ed?!

And if you can’t keep breathing, everything else is incidental.

Well, after yesterday’s stone-skipping non sequitur, it seems we’re back to another decent set-up and joke in today’s strip. Something about an injured Crankshaft seems to bring out abilities Batiuk rarely uses these days.

My daughter massaged my neck, to relieve the whiplash, as I lay in the emergency ward waiting for an x-ray. We didn’t know that two vertebrae were fractured. It felt great, I guess I was lucky.

Pmmmmmm, “What are you doing, Dad?”

Ha ha, it’s funny because the thought of getting a massage is INFURIATING!

Yep….some whiplash there……but mostly “old age”!!!!!

Take the massage, Ed.

Is she offering, or telling him to go get one?

so he will be complaining from his seat all week ? looking forward to more hijinx everyone

Why does Pmm have her back to the camera? We get robbed of seeing today’s smirk.

Oh Ed, just go down to Madam Liu’s Massage Emporium. I’m sure this story will have a happy ending when it is all over.

For once, I’m not going to make fun of this strip, and I’ll actually call its creator Tom Batiuk instead of the sobriquet I usually bestow upon him. (No, I’m not sick.) The reason is that I’m sure a lot of us go through, or have gone through, something similar to what Ed is experiencing. I, myself, have arthritis in my left shoulder, and soreness in my neck, due to my getting older, so I can relate to what Ed’s undergoing.

Nobody told me that getting old comes with a sound track. Mine is cereal, “Snap, Crackle, & Pop.”

Pmmm hot nerd alert?

Go to one of those Asian parlors

I’d recommend a cervical collar. It supports the weight of your head so your neck muscles can relax and heal. No, I ’m not a doctor, but I have used a cervical collar.

Haha! (＾▽＾)