The pen is mightier... than?

Sure you may have an original idea, but is it funny?

You got the basic idea, right? If the pen is so “mightier than,” how come it wasn’t in the stone? Sometimes, random things just pop into your head. Go figure. But what’s the caption? And why is the pen so big?

Which led to some other riffs on the “pen is mightier” idea:

There’s some self-referential potential here. Pen thwarts spatula, or re-directs.

This has promise somehow, pens battling to see who’s mightiest.

There’s always one tasteless, unpublishable idea in the bunch. A terrible way to end these posts. I’ll try not to do it again. And will post a finished drawing when I settle on where this is going. Suggestions welcome.