Monty by Jim Meddick for April 21, 2020

A worthy cause.

“With great power comes a great temptation to abuse it.”

I wish I could remember what cartoon showed “If Time Travel were real” with a line of time-travellers at Ford’s Theater to stop Lincoln’s assassination.

Monty needs to let somethings go.

So, no Monty Elser story arc?

Revenge of the nerds!

John Prine: “Sweet revenge, without fail, will prevail”.

Todd will probably still kick his butt…and give him a swirly this time

I like the robot’s story better.

If Monty ever watched Star Trek: Voyager he would know that time travel is a bad idea.

It’s just a wedgie. Some of us learn to live with it.

I keep telling all the time travellers who come to my bar: You don’t have to kill Hitler, just go back to when he was a baby and switch babies (although I think he was born at home and not in a hospital). No killing involved, and someone else grows up as Adolph Hitler.

I like where this is headed…

Nice special effects in panel three. :)

You’d have to run countless simulations to ensure you don’t butterfly effect the world in a bad way. For example, what if preventing Hitler from taking power prevented the civil rights movement, didn’t put the US off of its eugenics program, and allowed society to still think antisemitism was perfectly fine? In fact, the farther back you go the worse the consequences can get from seemingly small changes.

I hope the Bureau of Time Travel has some really tough cops to teach Monty the proper protocols….

Maybe Todd grew up to one of them!

I don’t think I’d stop with Hitler.

Small world: Big Nate First Class on Tuesday also involves wedgies.

https://www.gocomics.com/big-nate-first-class/2020/04/21?ct=v&cti=2065795