Crankshaft by Tom Batiuk and Dan Davis for October 13, 2024

Quoting super hero comic books within a discussion of book banning, censorship, and mob violence trivializes the topic.

Meh. Kevin Smith did “fake Stan Lee quote mining” better in “Mallrats.”

By the way, who’s running Montoni’s right now?

There’s nothing like a mug of hot hair cocoa to polish off a story, or whatever this was.

Stan Lee was amazing! Loved his cameos in the movies

They left because they didn’t want to hear her talking. They will be back! We hope.

‘Nuff said! No, really—That’s quite enough.

“With great powers comes great websponsibility.” — It’s called quoting.

“Shall I refill your cup of hot smugness?”

“Jasnah had once defined a fool as a person who ignored information because it disagreed with desired results.”― Brandon Sanderson,

Hold on! Did they ever caught the arsonist?

Generation gap!!!!!!!!

“As long as people continue to believe absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities” … [attributed to Voltaire]

Comic books comic books comic books comic books comic books comic books comic books comic books comic books comic books comic books.

only mary worth is allowed to use quotes on sundays

And there we go with the comic books. Batyuk simply can’t help himself. The most important inventions of all time according to Batyuk.

1. The wheel and axle.

2. The electric lightbulb.

3. The airplane.

4. The clock.

5. P̶r̶i̶n̶t̶i̶n̶g̶ P̶r̶e̶s̶s̶ W̶i̶t̶h̶ M̶o̶v̶a̶b̶l̶e̶ T̶y̶p̶e̶. The comic book.

It makes me wonder how much Batyuk bores people in everyday conversation with his talk about comic books. Does he ask the guy who cuts his lawn if ‘Flash #123’ rearranged his molecules too?

Mopey Pete failed his tryout for the Inferior Five.

conservatives epitomize the closed mind.

Wisdom can come from many people and sources. However, wisdom from the pain will always be remembered……

Lillian knew her words about freedom, liberty, and tolerance might have fallen on deaf ears. She had seen the shadows move, the politician standing there, pulling the strings of his mob like puppets. He was just one of many. Politicians who spewed wild nonsense, claiming the government controlled the weather, or that fires were sparked by lasers from space. Absurd, she thought, that anyone with a sane mind could believe such things. Yet, this was the very fuel that stoked the fire of conspiracy theories, the food for those hungry to see evil in even the simplest of things.

Lillian wasn’t naive. She knew she wouldn’t change the world with one speech, not with words alone. The mob’s anger and fear were too deeply rooted, too carefully nurtured by those in power. But maybe, just maybe, she could change one mind. And if that one person changed another, and another, then eventually, perhaps, the tide would turn. Maybe the world could pull itself out of the muck of lies it had been sinking into for decades, maybe even centuries.

That was her hope. Not that everyone would suddenly see the light, but that one person, just one, would open their mind, crack open the door to a new way of thinking. Lillian had long understood that it’s never about changing the masses—it’s about planting the seed. The rest would grow in time.

This would be her legacy, she thought. Not getting everyone to read one book, but sparking the courage in someone to question the narrative they’d been fed. To recognize truth from the tangled mess of lies. It was small, sure. But it was enough.

And if one mind could open, perhaps the world had a chance after all.

“Their minds seemed pretty set and closed to any discussion. Luckily, they were just strawmen who couldn’t articulate any actual position, so we wouldn’t have to consider anything they might have said. It’s okay to be closed-minded if you hold the RIGHT opinions!”

on a related subject, true science is never ‘settled’ for a true scientist lives by the creed, “always question!”

And remember Lillian Cranky had your back…………

Here’s a question? Were any of those protestors parents of kids in Les’ class?

Amen, mopey Pete.

Uh oh. It’s not going away.

Comic quotes as trivial?

Behold: “We have met the enemy — and he is us.”

Can we please move on to a different subject?

I read that somewhere in a comic book.

Tom Batiuk – 10/13/2024

Thank you for sharing, TB.

May heaven protect us from those who dwell in the pantheon of lofty ambition, but clueless execution..

Stan Lee > Socrates

Tom Batiuk – 10/13/2024

I suspect that the author of that quote was NOT Stanley “Stan Lee” Levey. He frequently used quotes from the wise and famous in his strips. Still, he used his strips to promote wisdom and morality.

Why not, Tom thinks Stan’s better than Charles Schulz, Bill Watterson, Al Capp, Will Eisner, Neil Gaiman, R. Crumb, Harvey Pekar, and Dave Sim.

“Pass the nuclear test ban treaty——or man will vanish and the insects will inherit the Earth”

SUPERMAN—1962