Crankshaft by Tom Batiuk and Dan Davis for January 16, 2024

Phone first, Pam.

“But cross my palm with silver and I’ll talk!”

How do you give a massage to someone who’s basically a skeleton with wrinkled skin draped over it?

PAM: “Can I spew 15 words of exposition no human would ever say? Wait, 14th, 15th.”

Oh, come on, now! Even Lillian gets a good line to deliver this week? What’s going on here?

Send Cranky to Chuck Norris massages.

Finally something in this comic I fully believe.

Acknowledging that Ed Crankshaft is thoroughly unlikable? Well played.

This could be interesting.

Hopefully the massage therapist is the parent of a kid on his route. Or an ex-kid who used to ride his bus. The pain they could inflict on him…

Now that is thinking about the future and she knows him way too well!!!!!!

Like I said, take him to the Magic Fingers Massage parlor. They will take care of his whiplash.

Wink wink.

Nudge nudge.

Know what I mean?

Nudge nudge.

Nudge nudge.

Say…no…more.

just make him a extra batch of rumballs that will do the trick

She doesn’t want her therapist to dump her because of Ed’s toxic behavior.

This is 4 thumbs up funny

Oh? Exactly how do you like your message therapist, Lil?

But not for the plain,ordinary massages