Teach them good!
Trout: So you said yes?
Hagan: Yeah the shameless begging got to me eventually. Plus it got me thinking about how comic books got me interested in art in the first place.
Trout: My brother Jerry was an awful big fan of Batman when we were children.
Hagan: Nah, not that spandex crap. Baseball comics mostly. That and robots. Or robots playing baseball…
Trout: So you want to inspire them as you were
Hagan: No.
Trout: My nephew Jason loves that… doke-mon? Or was that last year… Can’t remember…
Caption: Boiler room, Supply closet & Art office
Hagan: Gaudy melodramas and kitschy morality plays? The faster they grow out of that junk the better off they will be.
They want to draw cartoons… Oh I’ll teach them… Teach them good!
SFX: Crack! As Hagan snaps his pencil
Trout: Very thoughtful of you Hagan, but shouldn’t you be in class?
Is that Naush?
Naush: So the contour drawings will be due in…
Hagan: S’all right she gives great instruction. Ow, splinter.
Trout: Hm.