Frazz by Jef Mallett for June 18, 2024

It’s not easy for her to come up with books that Caulfield hasn’t read and the others can enjoy.

Just look at the list of books-to-be-banned by religious and republican nutjobs. Plenty to have kids reading to help them thinking.

Too late to be clever?

I know, I know, it’s a COMIC and it depends on us readers to already know the characters so Mallett can play them off against each other without tedious explanation. But still:

I never went to a school where the next year I still had the same teachers. And the next. And the next. And of course I did get older and perhaps even wiser (at least some portions of my anatomy) while moving from class to class, teacher to teacher.

Ok, I’m wondering just how Caufield learned that Mrs. Olsen hadn’t come up the reading list yet…..

Have to do the fun stuff first.

Teacher, you forgot to give us homework. (We never had summer reading lists).

To me “harangue” is a drawn out, repetitive, nagging interaction whereas “harrass” is a one-and-done episode.

You know it’s a comic, and yet you still complain about a well-established and widely accepted plot continuity device.

I never had a summer reading list and I wouldn’t have done it. It’s summer and I want to be free.

Is Caulfield learning there might be a time to shut up ?

Maybe I’m seeing this wrong, but, I find these Summer reading lists (or any requirement for reading) may very-well have the opposite effect… to turn the students off from reading. When anyone is forced to do something, it tends to kill the potential enjoyment.We didn’t do that, in school, and I love to read, now.

Calvin was six years old and had Mrs. Wormwood for ten years. Some comics, like “For Better or Worse” were age-progressive, but most are locked in one time period. No point in overthinking it.