Your “economic stimulus” refund should arrive in the mail, or your bank account, soon. Be a good citizen for once and give it all to veterans and their families. You can pledge to do so on my Facebook group: Donate Your Economic Stimulus to Veterans and Their Families.
Bad reasons for not joining this group:
1) “The government already takes good care of our soldiers. Nobody paid for MY prosthetic legs when they got blown off by an IED in Portland, Maine.”
2) “I need to pay for the part of the increase in the cost of gas created by this endless war.”
3) “The best thing we can do for our country is help the economy by buying iPod Nano’s — that’s good for everybody. Especially for veterans and their families.”
4) “Our men and women in uniform are fighting and dying so we can have the freedom to buy as many iPod Nano’s as we want. I want to honor their valor.”
5) “There’s a sale on blue iPod Nano’s.”
6) “George Bush and Nancy Pelosi told me to spend it on iPod Nano’s and I’m scared of them.”
Good reasons for not joining this group:
1) “I am a veteran. I need the refund to replace my extremities.”
2) “The bank foreclosed on my house yesterday. I need that money to buy a new refrigerator so I can live in the box.”
To be frank, I should be kicking the crap out of the comics on these sites.
In addition to running for Senate, Poet is also running for top web comic. At right I have added two buttons that take you to TopWebComics.com and TheWebComicList.com. You may vote at the former every 16 hours or so — 500 votes or more should put me in the top 100. The latter you can simply click the URL to “vote”, which you may do after every update on my site, or you may subscribe (which is painless) and make the strip a “favorite”.
Thanks for voting, and more importantly, thanks for reading.
…that a Google search for “gender issues” turns me up fourth in line (and after this post, probably higher). I’ve technically never done a strip that was openly about questions of gender. Even Gender War is more about “women’s issues” or “women’s rights” than it is about questions of what IS gender. On the other hand, so much of Poet’s struggle is against a society that tells him what it is to be a “real man” and of course, because he isn’t musclebound and given to violent competitive sports, and is more interested in his mind, he is left insecure by a population of middle school peers who define men this way (which, sadly, is also how most of our society still sees “real men”). Poet’s being called a “fag” endlessly is not about homosexuality but about gender ideology — BAD gender ideology.
Naturally, this echoes my own experience as a youth, and it has been interesting to learn in adulthood, and even through the creation of this comic strip, that much of the struggle for my own identity and sense of self-worth has been a struggle against monolithic gender identity. Recognizing this has actually brought me to an understanding that, though I fit the stereotype of a “male” and of being “100% straight”, I feel naturally allied with the LGBTQ community more than, um…whatever everybody else is called, just for having spent so much of my life questioning whether or not I was a “real man”.
41 - Pope Benedict
56 - The Muslim Joke Book
68 - Christmas for Halloween
Today I upped the only series of strips that ever got me in trouble with a publisher, for not-even-graphic depictions of adolescent sex. What, do they think this shit isn’t actually going in?
Psychojesus Biblequeen, Part I
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