interrogating the text from my perspective

I stop by the 4thletter! comic blog on and off (We share an interest) and most recently I found, as a case example in a post on useful arguments about race, a paragraph explaining why my recoloured Legion project was dumb.

After the obligatory moment of "no u i's awesome", I was actually pretty pleased to read it. I've gotten a lot of feedback from people who it succeeded with, but pretty much nothing from people who it didn't. (And no, "Maybe you could have made their eyes more slanty?" really really doesn't count.) I mean, I think he's wrong, and I will tell you all about why, but I can see where our expectations diverge.

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Regardless of how it works as an argument, as a story, I honestly believe my version is *better* than the original. Even the moral is no longer, "Sure, you all look exactly the same on the outside, but underneath you may see the world differently because of your different experiences. But underneath *that*, it turns out you really are just the same after all! Like a tuna salad sandwich on Wonderbread!

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I meant to make this official a couple weeks ago, so here we go. My webstrip, Monte Carlo Doctrine, is ended as of 37. (And hey, 37 out of the hoped for 50 strips. That's a solid B, right?)

If you've been curious, now is a great time to check them out! Here are some of my favourites:

5: Dating searches.
8. Finding peace.
12. Closing off from the world.
13. The girl who lives in the poem. The first in the... well, the format doesn't really support storylines. Theme?
20. Waiting for a sign.
22. Considerations of a physical nature.
29. White lies.
33. Observations.

As an experiment, I'm still not sure if it was successful or not. I think it at least came close at times, and I can't shake the feeling something cool could be done with the format or one very like it.