[yellow, a finger up, looking smug]
The answer to oppression is NEVER violence
Turn the other cheek
Pacifism always wins
You could earn rights by asking nicely instead
[yellow, proudly showing us a huge book]
Don’t believe me?
Open a history book!
[yellow, looking frustrated as they are shuffling through the book’s pages]
Ok so…
Uhm…
Not this page…
Wait…
The next one…
Awkward…
Another…
Yeah but…
For sure this time…
[yellow, sweating, protecting their book, a hand raised towards us]
Can you stop looking?
You’re being rude
That’s my book
https://thebad.website/comic/please_resist_responsibly
Workshop: arguments for keeping the fourth panel? I feel like ending on #3 is a lot stronger.
i like the fourth pabel. it shows someone loudly proclaiming the status-quo establishment line, being shown to be embarassingly, catastrophically wrong, and rather than changing their ways, their worldview, or owning up to their mistake, they change subject, deflect, and get defensive. i think that’s a well-observed comic panel
Oh, yes, panel #4 is definitely true and I do enjoy looking at that guy freaking out; I just think it’s making a second point (how claims are defended in the contradiction to the evidence) at the expense of the first point (that this claim is in contradiction to the evidence).
You can make both points, of course, but the last one is the one more likely to be remembered.
great point, very thoughtful response
I think you’re right, much better that way.
Thanks, useful advice on writing/pacing is rare.
It definitely feels risky giving unsolicited feedback, because maybe it’s not wanted.
I also wonder how much of my fear was shaped by r/comics somewhat brutal and arbitrary moderation. I think there was an explicit rule about not saying anything negative, as if the sub were a site to encourage women to take photos of themselves.
There’s good and bad ways of giving feedback.
Yours is very good.
Other people’s, often not so much.