Comments on: 01/05/11 – Baseball Bats

By: Ada

Ada — Sat, 17 Jan 2015 04:27:23 +0000

Aaaand no one answers peets about the sexism. To be fair, it did come 17 days later.

By: peets

peets — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 01:21:44 +0000

This comment thread is like a conversation where people are describing a black guy while awkwardly avoiding mentioning that he’s black. Sexism is the black guy here.

By: Toby Bartels

Toby Bartels — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 19:31:35 +0000

So Donna pushed him, starting the assault. Then he punched her, giving her a black eye, and she fell to the ground, breaking her nose. Finally, the bar threw them all out. Does that explain everything?

By: Christopher

Christopher — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 21:28:02 +0000

Fair enough! Yes, I intended to imply that she pushed him both verbally and physically (though without leaving a scratch), and he (as if swatting a fly) simply bopped her with “one punch.” Not to say that either behavior was justified, but I did with to imply that it….

a. was provoked physically in some way
b. that he didn’t beat her up, he only hit her once.

But since I gave no ACTUAL word or picture of her doing anything physical to him, it could easily not come across. My bad, and thank you for pointing it out. Perhaps i will tweak it. :)

By: Ronald

Ronald — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 21:20:13 +0000

Because we DID see the other guy, in the previous strip. Donna was groggy on the floor and the guy (whom, in the strip prior to that, Donna had singled out as the target of her aggressions because he was harassing a woman) was standing there unscathed, telling Bruno “One punch learned your little friend.”

If there was additional violence between strips, well, that didn’t come across to me, sorry.

By: Christopher

Christopher — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 20:08:39 +0000

Peter’s right in that it’s a sobered up after reaction.

But I’m not sure the confusion. Why assume that she’s the victim? I always pictured that she picked a fight, and these were some of the trophy’s. In the immortal words, “you shoulda’ seen the other guy.”

By: Peter Lewerin

Peter Lewerin — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 20:01:36 +0000

I’ve always assumed that the staff handled the situation, called the cops etc.

The calm could be a sobered-up after-reaction.

By: Ronald

Ronald — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 13:16:39 +0000

Uh, shouldn’t Bruno and Donna have had the guy arrested? No matter what Donna said to him before, I doubt it in any way qualified as justifiable provocation (or whatever). I’m guessing the guy didn’t believe his life was in imminent danger.

How did ONE punch both blacken Donna’s eye AND break her nose?

If someone did that to my girlfriend, I couldn’t possibly be as calm as Bruno is being, here or in the previous strip. Then again, it’s rarely a good idea to compare oneself to fictional characters; you almost always end up coming up short.