This strip introduces Hank, a red balloon. Hank’s last comment is a topic of discussion at our house right now, as my girlfriend thinks it’s too much, that I shouldn’t alienate kids by having him swear. I think it’s not really an issue. It’s not as if I have a daily strip in the Tribune. And anybody who’s reading these needs to know that this strip is sometimes going to deal with bigger concepts and sometimes going to have humor that’s a bit sharp. That’s just who I am. I think on the whole, web comics are for thinking people, and not for those who would tune out because of a “dick” comment. I love my girlfriend for trying to make sure that I don’t get myself in trouble, but I also think that if I ever got picked up for a gig where content was an issue, I could probably put together a Sunday Funnies kid-safe portfolio pretty easily.
If you’re thinking you don’t like what Hank says, just don’t listen to Hank. He’s kind of a “jerk” himself. See how easy that was?
Cute and funny. However, I agree with your girlfirend, cut off swear-words: “humor that’s a bit sharp” doesn’t need to be PG rated.
Potential Tribune editor.
Ha ha. Very funny, woman. (that’s my girlfriend, up there posting comments)I’m not worried. The Trib is going down in flames, and the interwub is where its at anyway.
Oh noez ! I didn’t know ‘dick’ was swearing…
I agree somewhat with “the girlfriend” or it could be MILA “the cloudy girl” who could add repartee to either “rain” or “sunshine” on the issues thus “snow on dick” to make things cool.
“***********@ameritech.net: NOT ALLOWING AN UNDERSCORE,” MILA SAYS pissed-off. I’ll have to add a family e-mail instead.
Thanks for the comment, Raymond. I replaced a bit of your email address with asterisks because otherwise the spam-bots will be all over it. Don’t want them sending you any nasty stuff.
I’m actually rethinking this a little. I’m not at the point where I think it’s a good idea to censor it, but as the strip goes along, it really is getting more all-ages, and this particular strip stands out a bit as “one of these things is not like the others.” We’ll see. I think I might just remove the strip instead of censoring it or changing it.
doesn’t MILA offer an interesting possible repartee, humor, love, anger…after all you are neglecting female clouds. Virga falls as their tears when they are neglected.