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on August 6, 2019 at 12:01 amChapter: It's Walky! Hundred Dollar Theatre
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These Aliens spent the last decade binging Friends, so I guess they’re a little homophobic.
These Aliens spent the last decade binging Friends, so I guess they’re a little homophobic.
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Wait does this mean that at least some of the aliens are essentially children? I mean that would make a lot of sense all things considered, but it would also mean that Sal tore apart the alien equivalent of a 10 year old.
could have extended childhoods spanning decades
like rich white kids facing consequences
Come on, that’s not true. We both know they never face any real consequences, just watered-down ones. Consequences Lite.
“Ha ha ha… Oh, I made myself sad.”
– Prof. Farnsworth
That makes the moments were they beat or even killed some aliens much more dark.
heck of a stance in Panel 1, Jace
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Was MM using some kind of cloaking device just now?
Willis, you had plenty of time to change the punchline. That was just lazy. Sorry, but homophobia isn’t funny nor is it acceptable.
Yes, but you start changing things like that (instead of acknowledging it was wrong, oops, younger me was an idiot), and you turn into George Lucas.
This was written 14 years ago, by a person from an upbringing he was currently fighting. I think we can give David a pass on this one.
Even EGS has Nanase’s mother being “revolted by homosexuality”.
Times change. Thank god.
Willis is pretty clearly committed to not hiding his past faults, seeing as how these aliens once demanded anatomical proof of Sal’s gender.
I’d rather Willis not change the comics he made years ago, even if they reflect bad beliefs he had back then which he obviously doesn’t have now.
I don’t really see how that last panel is homophobia. That’s not how it read to me in the past, nor today. “Crap, I’m gay” sounds more like a realization that he can’t believe he wasn’t aware of before, than it does homophobia. Either way, changing something from the past is just covering it up, not fixing it. Why don’t you make Greedo shoot first, or change the guns in the hands of the cops looking for E.T. into radios? [APG whispers in my ear] Wait, what? Really? Well, damn. Nevermind.
Is it unacceptable to write homophobic characters? Should creators pretend homophobia doesn’t exist?
I don’t even see the uncharitable read as being homophobic. Being gay is way harder, y’all. Aw crap is the correct response.
Of course my reruns are lazy!!!! They’re reruns!!!!!
and yet you altered previous strips to fix the looks of characters and backgrounds and various other tweaks yet couldn’t be bothered to change a homophobic joke.
I understand, you won’t ever see a penny from me thanks to that laziness.
Don’t worry LookingIn. I’ll spend money to make up for your missing pennies, you internet badass you.
They need the money to buy more censored versions of Huck Finn, anyway
What exactly is wrong with villains being homophobic
Look at Republican senators (who get caught soliciting sex in bathrooms)
I’d long ago had people sit me down to calm me about my incredible anxiety about running old terrible problematic comic strips day after day. I was afraid to change even a serif, because if you change one thing, then maybe that implies an endorsement of the things you don’t change.
They insisted that anybody who took that approach seriously was an asshole who I shouldn’t waste any spoons on.
So.
I was upset when I realized a character of mine was being moderately misogynistic
then I got over it bc 1. his upbringing would never have encouraged a more feminist viewpoint and 2. no one’s fucking perfect
… wait, homophobic? I just read it as “damn, now I know” XD
I always read it as “Crap, how did I not know this already?” Seriously, sometimes people are a little too willing to be offended. Even if it is a case of homophobia, why is it not okay for a bad guy to be a bigot?
I don’t think it is homophobic to feel a bit disappointed if you realise you are gay knowing how judgemental others can be of it, especially going back to when this as written. Around this time I had friends coming out as lesbians that were really depressed about it, there was a strong feeling of life won’t be as easy now we don’t fit in the nice straight white female box.
Why is Monkey Master ‘bad’ again?
He was never “good” he merely choose to not play on a losing side.
I just noticed the new banner. Nice.
…this is not homophobic at all.
…and even if it was, it’s the aliens’ view, not the writer’s view.
There is a ”’slight”’ difference. 😛