Yeh, education has to lead. Of course, once he becomes scholarly, he's gonna draw with a golden pen, and us of the Teeming Millions will go by the wayside....
:)
Actually, I have a mental flash of Mule in the study carrels in the basemewnt of the library, with a Dane wraped around his feet snoring while he insults the smoke alarms with one of them El Ropo 'Albert the Alligator' specials he smokes, and all the truly studious kids taking one whiff and leaving the place quickly.
I can wait for the next strip till he's bot the time to do it right. MEantimes, we can speculate.
--lj