Spacewizard! (Ed H)

@MeDuViNoX @Rolando he’s not morbidly obese, he’s approaching deadly geometric perfection. Like a cannonball, or a sphere of red-hot nickel, or the Demon Core.

@turtlepower But yeah, Everett can be extremely disappointing.

@turtlepower it varies. Sometimes he’s absolutely in the right (opposing cruelty to animals, corruption, people being selfish and mean), sometimes he’s hilariously petty and ridiculous (he punches a guy for wearing his hat crooked at one point). But that’s late-stage Everett, early Everett just said cruel things and then everybody around him grins or compliments him cause that’s “what they were all thinking”. Lame.

@turtlepower I dunno about sexist, but he’s being a dick. Which is in character for early True, whose only real character trait was being a dick.

Before he had evolved into the later True we all love, who was an avenging angel of over-the top righteous (or sometimes extremely petty) violence.

@Rolando @clark he is canonically married

@turtlepower @clark objectively speaking, based on looks and temperament, Mr. True is not exactly out of her league

@clark early Everett was just a dick.

@clark early Everett is just a dick.

@Rhynoplaz still, on a scale from “punishing someone for cruelty to animals” (not petty at all) to “punishing someone for wearing a hat crooked” (highly petty) I’d say that this is far closer to the “wearing a hat crooked” end of the scale.

(Yes, Everett once walloped a guy for wearing a hat at an excessively jaunty angle)

@Rolando Pettiness level: HIGH

@grrgyle @thejoker954 Everett True gives no warning and no quarter. He can’t be bargained with. He can’t be reasoned with. He doesn’t feel pity, or remorse, or fear!* And he absolutely will not stop till his victim has been punished in a manner wildly disproportionate to their crime!

* except fear of Mrs. True

@thejoker954 @I_Has_A_Hat whoever happens to be getting on the train deserves to be able to get on without climbing over this douchebag.

@Rolando @ShareMySims I mean, I don’t think it was understood as a slur at the time. It’s not like anyone in the US knew the correct endonym “Khoekhoe” and was choosing to use a different term “Hottentot” instead in order to express contempt.

But characterizing bowing as an excessively servile action characteristic of a “primitive” people is in and of itself problematic.

@Bougie_Birdie @clark Everett’s pretty damn petty sometimes, this is his karma coming back to bite him.

@mojofrododojo @makeshiftreaper not exactly. Everett is *never ever* physically violent with his wife, like he is with other people. He’s an inconsiderate dick to her, but when that happens she’s the one that wallops him.

Actually I don’t think he’s *ever* violent with women, the way he is with men? Sometimes women are the target of his “outbursts” but he never whacks them with umbrellas or throws them out of the window of a moving train or anything.

@clark True is ahead of his time and on the right side of the issue so much that it’s a bummer when he’s neither one.

@Gradually_Adjusting @Fredselfish Different norms around *comedy* violence. Actual Everett True level violence would get you jailed then or now!

@verity_kindle @clark Everett is canonically embarrassed by being publicly reminded of the sweet lovey-doveys he used to say to Mrs. True when they were courting. If they still speak that way privately to each other, we have divined the background to this strip.

@LodeMike @The_Picard_Maneuver ain’t the first time, won’t be the last

@DaddleDew @clark it’s like in Silver Age comic book covers, where Batman or Mister Fantastic will summarize the whole plot of the comic for the spinner-rack-browsing kids, while throwing a single punch