Crabgrass by Tauhid Bondia for May 25, 2023

Books are not just for nerds

Miles: “Insult received. We’re even.”

You’d think he would have made it at least to wedgie.

Violence, as Jerry Pournelle reminded us, is the last refuge of the incompetent.

I’m surprised he didn’t just throw the book at Miles.

Kevin is too lazy to finish reading and he’s too lazy to fight.

So Kevin stopped reading the rules after the first few lines? I see a bright future for him in the Republican Party!

Books are for nerds who rule.

He’s male. Of course he’s not going to read anything like instructions thoroughly.

He has an amazing reading vocabulary for a third grader, especially one in danger of being held back.

And it’s Big Nate, in for the wedgie!! (acceptable in lieu of a "duking!)

I’m surprised Kevin even knows what “fisticuffs” means.

Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!

Come on, don’t go around saying “books are for nerds.” What a LOUSY message for your main character to be promoting. Calvin, who I sometimes suspect you’re clumsily trying to imitate (& wrongheadedly – you totally don’t get what made C & Hobbes great), was a lover of books. Same thing with Huey Freeman of The Boondocks, if that’s who you’re trying to emulate.

He just called him a nerd, so its even.