Fat Charlie wasn't sure that he liked freedom, ... There was too much open air involved.

It's certainly not too late to change to the winning side. But you know, you also have the freedom to stay just where you are. That's what it means to be an American. That's the miracle of America. Freedom to believe means the freedom to believe the wrong thing, after all. Just as freedom of speech gives you the right to stay silent.

Because if you don't stand up for the stuff you don't like, when they come for the stuff you do like, you've already lost.

Adventures are all very well in their place, but there's a lot to be said for regular meals and freedom from pain.

A nice, easy place for freedom of speech to be eroded is comics, because comics are a natural target whenever an election comes up.

So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and sometimes winning and sometimes losing, the fight for First Amendment rights in comics and, more generally, for freedom of speech.