Quote from: Funt Solo [Rlink=msg=1108693 date=1703033137]Quote from: Richard on 19 December, 2023, 11:13:57 PMTo be fair, it probably wasn't really necessary to show an attempted domestic rape in front of a child just to make the point that misogynists are bad people.
On the other hand, it did a good job of reflecting back on Alpha's own childhood, which also demonstrates that the complaint that the writer hadn't done their research and wasn't playing true to the characters was a bit of an empty complaint.
If you check statistics, you find that domestic abuse-related crimes are on the rise in the UK, so I'm not sure how it would be helpful to brush it under the carpet. Indeed, that's probably one of the reasons it's on the rise - because it is often a hidden crime, and it's difficult to prosecute. Quite brave of 2000 AD to highlight it. We should probably be lauding them, rather than criticizing them, I'm sure we'd all agree. Unless...
I chose to ignore this last time because I couldn't be bothered, but that's your second insinuation now; that because someone felt a strip was too heavy handed they support misogynistic behaviour. I'm sure your next move will be to gaslight this with a hand wave and ask why I would think that.
This discussion is precisely one of the reasons I don't like writers who lack the ability to weave their commentary through the narrative with a bit more skill. See Devil's Railroad in the same Prog for how it's done, and we are still all very much aware that Milligan is focussing on immigration and the abuse of people stuck within that system that goes with it.
Interesting to note that Hound went to Di Campi for a crash course in writing a comic strip, maybe if he chose his mentor better the entire strip would have had a decent structure rather than being all over the place. But I digress.
I wrote a brief comment on every single strip, this is the one you have chose to hone in on, and not only that, continue to pursue further response rather than accept the reasoning I've already provided.
Reading back through the thread I can see 3 others commenting that they found the strip too heavy handed (and disjointed) so I'm clearly not alone.
Now, I hope you'll excuse me as I have a Klan rally to attend and id really like to attempt to rape my wife in front of my kid before I head off.