Posts Tagged ‘Jay’
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Bruno knows all too well how a mind with too much aloneness can warp.
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Apologies, yesterday’s strip didn’t go up until evening. My fault. But it’s up now, so click on yesterday’s strip if you missed it. :)
Bruno has a fair point here.
This is true for me, I LOVED going to the local mall (which granted was a quirky one, with a tiny bit of soul) as a kid. Ah, how our tastes change.
Bruno’s last line cracks me up. Jay bares his soul, and she simply can’t help herself from making that one last twist.
I think what i was kinda trying to express here is that feeling one gets when arguing someone down for so long (Bruno arguing down Jay’s Catholicism), that if you ever “win,” and that person is less happy, then it’s a very very crappy feeling indeed.
If she only knew how futile her attempt was.
The movie that inspired this strip was “Twister,” and it was the first time it really hit me how Hollywood consistently paints scientists as cold, foolish, and failures. It’s the good-ol-American-gut-instinct which wins the day.
And I kinda’ get it, oddly, the theme of listen-and-read-and-educate-yourself-but-follow-your-heart-as-well, which plays with ideas such as there being decisions which your education can’t make for you, and that education has limits and bias and so you need to see beyond it as well. It’s just when Hollywood strips a theme stark and black-and-white, it loses it’s subtlety and, to me, becomes a horrible lesson.
Science bad. Gut good. Sounds like a political speech.
Re-running (and re-reading) these strips is making me crave a road-trip.
On rare occasion I’d do a strip like this: without Bruno in it. I generally tried not to, because she has a unique outlook on the world, and so everything is tainted by it, and I wanted to represent the feeling of that perspective. But now and again it felt important to remind people that what they’re reading is just that: a tainted perspective.
I drew this in 1997. That means no Google images. Which means I had to go to an actual library to find images to draw from. How far we’ve gone since then.
