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Censoring an old strip?
Is it cold in here?:
I too found it interesting but it's near the end of its life cycle.
cassie:
The discussion has drifted more into copyright laws but it's very possible it was changed to prevent potential triggers. I have no issue with an artist going back and editing his or her work. It's an old comic but it's also very early into the series--I'd hate for someone to start QC from the beginning, come across that, and be turned off from the comic as a whole just from it.
But whatever, I suppose it doesn't really matter at the end of the day.
Valdís:
--- Quote from: cassie on 02 May 2013, 19:53 ---It's an old comic but it's also very early into the series--I'd hate for someone to start QC from the beginning, come across that, and be turned off from the comic as a whole just from it.
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Yeah, good thing I started around the time Hannelore was introduced and went back later. Wouldn't be a great first impression. :-P
MillionDollar Belt Sander:
Rape "humor" occupies the same place in my joke-toolbox as Hitler/Holocaust jokes, abortion wisecracks and dead-baby jokes. You have to gauge your audience VERY carefully and even then that sort of ultra-dark/gruesome humor makes you kinda... meh... even if you get a chuckle out of people.
While I understand the original joke and how it was intended -- female on male rape does occur and just like male on female rape it's a serious crime. I get where he was going with the analogy -- I too have wished a certain specific hot-chick would "jump me" and drag me off. ;) However... and he has successfully demonstrated it... the joke DOES work without the darker term.
In this case I liked the original joke. I "got" where he was going with it, and I do get a chuckle out of it. However I am NOT the majority of the fan base, nor have I been attacked/traumatized in that way. Why take the chance on offending people when a slight edit preserves the spirit of the joke.
In the end... as I said above it's Jeph's comic. He can edit it how he wants and I will still read it.
MillionDollar Belt Sander:
--- Quote from: Asterus on 25 Apr 2013, 04:50 ---Well, I only remember it because we went from talking about whether Steve had his junk out to whether old Faye really would have been offended at a casual rape joke.
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Ok in-universe explanation: We saw in a guest strip Faye had access to a time-machine perhaps she was offended by the joke after all -- and she went back to change it. In doing so she accidentally caused Sara to cease to exist. If you don't want to count the guest strip, maybe she used the same technology that Raven hooked into the Esspressosaur. In fact, Sara wasn't eaten by a REAL dino, she was done in by a time-traveling espresso-machine SHAPED like one.
All because of a joke that offended Faye.
Moral of the story is: Don't piss off women with rape-humor, especially if there is ANY possibility of time-travel.
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