Crankshaft by Tom Batiuk and Dan Davis for May 24, 2023

You don’t really want that back once Ed’s finished, do you, Pmm?

You know where he’s going to drop that…

Not nearly the same, but he’s desperate.

Is she reaching up to the cupboard to get that cell phone? It’s also interesting that there appears to be a corded phone hanging on the wall in the first panel.

3rd panel. That dense “huh” look on Ed’s face! How am I supposed to use that?

Just make sure the cameras aren’t live streaming!

He wouldn’t know how to use it.

Time to download the news

Technology meets fossil.

Plop, plop.

So! Pammm keeps her phone in a kitchen cabinet.

Be careful how you sWipe.

Not the same……

What happens if he discovers Twitter?!?!

He won’t use it.

Thats what newspapers are evolving into.

Not the same…

The difference is: when the newspaper is all read, he knows he’s finished…

Ew gross. Think of the germs on that thing.

It’s extremely tiresome to have to move the focus right to left on every line to read an article. Old eyes can’t read the teeny tiny print.

Another illustration of the idea that the mere existence of technology invented in the last 20 years constitutes a joke in comic-strip terms.

“If it fits, I s4its!”

Pmm, Drano is a solid, not a solution. Otherwise, that’s probably the best idea you’ve ever had.

Plop plop phizt phizt … today’s news is as stinky as what Crank dropped in the bowl

… and away goes today’s news down the drain.

He (I) would rather sit on the throne paperless.

next episode: it falls in the toilet.

She’ll never see him again

Hi-larious.

Fumigate it.

If his eyes are like mine, then the type would be too small to read.

It’s not the same!