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 .
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.”
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.
billsplut 9 months ago
OMG, tomorrow Crank’s going to say “But not as much as I love—EARLY ’60s DC COMICS!”
billsplut 9 months ago
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 .
J.J. O'Malley 9 months ago
All right, where’s the real Crankshaft?
seismic-2 Premium Member 9 months ago
So does this discussion of dystopic fictional futures lead into the promised “burnings”?
billsplut 9 months ago
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.”
Kiba65 9 months ago
AH, here I am again at the friendly comments on Crankshaft from all who could better than Tom!!!!
eromlig 9 months ago
We get sixty new minutes of Future every hour.
Jacob Mattingly 9 months ago
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.
gammaguy 9 months ago
But what did William Gibfather say?
French Persons Premium Member 9 months ago
Batiuk thinks if he dips his toes into progressive politics some more, it will spawn that Pulitzer Prize he so desperately wants.
Fetzee 9 months ago
The globe is warming thanks to Montonis reopening and their pizza ovens on all the time Batty
Bill Thompson 9 months ago
“Yep, Lil, I’m a big fan of soberjunk!”“You mean cyberpunk!”“How little you know me!”
gammaguy 9 months ago
“…you read science fiction!”
Anybody who reads the “news” these days gets more than enough fictional “science”.
Out of the Past 9 months ago
This took a bad turn. You can never get your hopes up here.
B UTTONS 9 months ago
Crankshaft “read”?
What do you think he is doing when he blocks traffic with the school bus?
Listening to audio books.
dputhoff62 9 months ago
Timemop probably beamed the knowledge into Crankshaft’s brain!
Hamady Sack Premium Member 9 months ago
The art of seduction.
ladykat 9 months ago
Old Ed isn’t as stupid as most people think he is.
DawnQuinn1 9 months ago
Careful what you ask for, you just might get it. lol
rockyridge1977 9 months ago
….or the fact that he reads
wherescrankshaft 9 months ago
I’m just grateful that he didn’t use the phrase “climate damage” today.
oakie817 9 months ago
who knows who Walter Gibson is?? ha ha ha
rickmac1937 Premium Member 9 months ago
Great one Ed
tcayer 9 months ago
And to think… a few years ago Ed was illiterate!
tcayer 9 months ago
I’ve been able to read since childhood, and am a big sci-fi geek, yet I had to google who William Gibson was..
MuddyUSA Premium Member 9 months ago
Atta boy Cranky…atta boy!
sschardi 9 months ago
I want to know which William Gibson book that was. I think I’ve read most of them.
[Unnamed Reader - 14b4ce] 9 months ago
When did he learn to read at all?
lemonbaskt 9 months ago
i read over sixty strips a day and if it wasnt for mark trail and luann crankshaft would be rockbottom
David Rickard Premium Member 9 months ago
Aaaugh! William Gibson has been mentioned in Crankshaft! Now I can never read Gibson again! What part of my childhood will Batiuk ruin next?