New hairstyle
on March 17, 2016 at 12:01 amChapter: Walky and Dina
Characters: Mike Warner, Sal Walters
I was unsatisfied with the way I drew Sal’s hair for a long while, and this is just one step along the way of that journey. Let’s try it without the ears! Why not. Will that last? Probably not! Will I try something new in its place? Sure.
also mike i know this is my fault because i wasn’t thinking but maybe “monkey” is not a modifier you should be using for sal specifically
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It’s not like your ears are exactly small, Mike.
what we don’t see is the 4 hours of sex between the 4th and 5th panels
Gotta say, my brain also first parsed panel four as Sal jumping Mike for the most epic pre-Amber hatefuck of his life.
Same. It’s just too easy to read it that way.
The look on Mike’s face in the first 2 panels makes what he says sound so genuine.
Gaddangit Mike
Seriously wtf
Physical violence and racial microaggressions. Just another day at SEMME.
That reminds me: I was watching Lupin III earlier, and they made a remark about his “monkey face” — again. And I thought to myself, “Sure glad Lupin isn’t black!”
Then again, Lupin III’s author is named… Monkey Punch.
Just gonna say it, I’m twenty-two years old right now, almost twenty-three, and I had never heard or thought of monkey-related insults as having any racial aspect to them, and had not seen them used in such a way, until very, very recently in my lifetime. Specifically, reading a “Scandinavia and the World” comic wherein the “haha he’s so accidentally racist it’s kinda uncomfortable aheh pleasedon’tkilhim” character was chastised for mistaking an African character for a monkey. (he had similar troubles involving a muslim woman, or “NINJA!” as he called her) Anyways, the point is yeah I can see that slipping by a writer if they don’t think too hard about it.
I’m in my thirties and I didn’t know about that. Kinda knew about the food ones, but those just seemed weird. Fried chicken is tasty.
From what I hear, that was a shift of lower-class prejudices to Black people when open classism became less socially acceptable in the US than open racism. Fried chicken was seen as a food of the lower class (along with watermelon), and black people were mostly poor because of generational poverty caused by centuries of slavery, so they made a natural fit, and being virulently hateful and dismissive toward them was still “okay” socially.
How aware you are of that particular bit of racism depends largely on where you grew up. I never heard the word “monkey” used that way until I went to high school in rural Wisconsin. Wisconsin is still fairly segregated in a lot of places, and while making racial jokes in the more metropolitan areas is definitely not done, the rural counties have so few people of color, and beyond that even fewer black people, that you sort of come away with the impression that 132% of the population is white.
In a place where seeing a black person frequently serves to emphasize how uncomfortably white the area is, you get a lot more racist jokes, and there were several deeply unpleasant lunch periods out there spent listening to jokes I wouldn’t tell to hitler for fear of being called out as a racist.
Well, I live in Brazil, and here if you refer to a black person like that… it’s equivalent of saying the N-word
Some calls you a monkey, you litterally jump on them in a fit of unlikely acrobatic… it… doesn’t really get your counter-point accross, I think XD
God dammit, Mike. Don’t be racist. You’re already awful in so many other ways.
There are lines that even Mike should not cross.
Conceivably Mike didn’t know about that implication, I guess?
I was confused at first – the ‘E’ read as a ‘B’. Not sure how monkey bars were relevant to the situation…
I think the real root of the problem here is that Sal does have giant monkey ears… along with everyone else in the comic. Guess we should be glad you got past that stage…