Back at UMass I got a really nasty letter about this one. Someone had read this strip without reading any strip before it and felt I was saying that all lesbians are into deviant S&M practices.
I actually managed to iron the whole conflict out, and later even met the woman, and it was all good.
How’s that for an undramatic story! :)
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.
I’ve always assumed that the staff handled the situation, called the cops etc.
The calm could be a sobered-up after-reaction.
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.”
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.
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. :)
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?
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.
Aaaand no one answers peets about the sexism. To be fair, it did come 17 days later.