The answer, found in the crumbling pages of Simpsons Comics from the 90s and 2000s, is a defiant "Yes." As long as Bart holds a slingshot against a screen, popular media will have its greatest critic—not the Comic Book Guy, but the fourth-grade boy who knows that the only way to survive the content flood is to laugh at it.
One of the smartest tricks Simpsons Comics pulled was using Bart to Trojan-horse real-world references into kids’ hands. In one story, Bart’s attempt to create the ultimate "gross-out" comic led to a lecture on R. Crumb and underground comix . In another, a time-travel plot with Professor Frink referenced everything from H.P. Lovecraft to M.C. Escher . The answer, found in the crumbling pages of
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