Command Ant posted:

Is that a Johnny Cash reference?

Tiggum posted:

I'm assuming that you need a teaching degree to be a teacher in America? So Dustin would first have to go back to school. And he could work part time in childcare. Or to put it another way, he could be Luann.

Evil Mastermind posted:

Even more hosed up is that the prey species that try to fight back are considered the bad guys by everyone else.

Darthemed posted:

Ripley's

RolandTower posted:

A standard gold bar weighs 400 troy oz. Gold’s around $1300 oz. So we’re talking about 2 gold bars, about 60 lbs of gold.

That doesn’t sound like a particularly wild gold investment for a multi-millionaire.

Angular Cyrus posted:

He had 67 10 oz bars.

Haifisch posted:

What issue are you having? I can still copy the image link & upload to imgur just fine.




I'm using the Stylish CSS here, if that helps any.

Some Guy TT posted:

All right, this is a good example. Here Holbrook is attempting to do his racism metaphor with school integration. To a white middle class generation xer (I'm assuming that's how old he is) who only knows about school integration vaguely from history class, this is rational. But right out the gate, he's making stupid assumptions- like how schools for minority students are impractical because they represent a smaller portion of the population.

Haifisch posted:

What issue are you having? I can still copy the image link & upload to imgur just fine.




I'm using the Stylish CSS here, if that helps any.

Calaveron posted:

If this kk storyline is really a parallel to segregation and desegregation then what's the argument he's making here with minorities

Julet Esqu posted:

Johnny Walker posted:

Pooch Cafe

Johnny Walker posted:

Rex Morgan MD

Johnny Walker posted:

Mark Trail



MT is easily amazed.

Indolent Bastard posted:

Julet Esqu posted:

Angular Cyrus posted:

Some Guy TT posted:

All right, this is a good example. Here Holbrook is attempting to do his racism metaphor with school integration. To a white middle class generation xer (I'm assuming that's how old he is) who only knows about school integration vaguely from history class, this is rational. But right out the gate, he's making stupid assumptions- like how schools for minority students are impractical because they represent a smaller portion of the population. Schools can be whatever size. We used to have schools in tiny buildings that could only fit a dozen people at a time, for communities in the middle of nowhere with no schools. Even today there are small home schools and charter schools. So why is Holbrook making the idea of running a small school out to be such a Heraclean task?

Because in the mind of the well-meaning white liberal, segregated schools have to be an accident. Black people were not forced into squalid horrible buildings as a means of social control by a tyrannical white majority. Certainly not! Racism may have been de jour, but those poor deluded white people simply thought based on the incorrect information they had access to that black people and white people were too different to be able to learn together, which we in the enlightened modern day understand to obviously be incorrect.

Suffice to say, this was not what happened. Brown V. Board of Education explicitly decided that separate was inherently unequal. This was not a matter of great moral principle. If racist rear end in a top hat post-Reconstruction white people had actually wanted to give black people access to equal schools, they could have done so and averted the end of segregation. The reason they did not was because the explicit and actual purpose of segregation was solely to force Black people into using substandard facilities, which the court correctly recognized.

But Holbrook, the white liberal, cannot acknowledge the prospect that his ancestors were simply malicious assholes. They must have been nice, somehow. So he concocts this fantasy situation where segregation is simply a matter of tradition based on outmoded beliefs which intolerant characters will inevitably be taught is wrong. Of course the analogy is hosed from the beginning since unlike black and white people predators and prey presumably have to learn completely different life skills. But whatever I'm done with this dumb dissertation gimmick for today. Back to my more coherent gimmick, Korean comics.

mastersord posted:

Whoa! I think you're taking his comics way too seriously. Holbrook is tackling segregation and integration in the context of his made up world and he's not doing it parallel to what happened in the US, because his strip is too lighthearted and kid friendly to really do it justice.

mastersord posted:

Whoa! I think you're taking his comics way too seriously. Holbrook is tackling segregation and integration in the context of his made up world and he's not doing it parallel to what happened in the US, because his strip is too lighthearted and kid friendly to really do it justice.

I wouldn't be surprised if the schools combine, some idiot predator comes in and tries to screw it up but get's caught, and everything goes back to normal and we're back at the tree with the porcupine and bat and their hybrid doing cutesy things.

Holbrook is not looking for historical accuracy or real portrayals of issues. He's just looking for a quick story arc for more of his animal based humor.