The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to Comic Strips@lemmy.world · 3 个月前Mr. True goes grocery shopping [Outbursts of Everett True, 1926]lemmy.worldimagemessage-square42fedilinkarrow-up1393arrow-down114
arrow-up1379arrow-down1imageMr. True goes grocery shopping [Outbursts of Everett True, 1926]lemmy.worldThe Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to Comic Strips@lemmy.world · 3 个月前message-square42fedilink
minus-squareZucca@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up33·edit-23 个月前Ok. I’m lost now. Somebody, please, explain. Does he value the honesty of the shopkeeper that much, that he then, instead of going to the competitors store, buys whole lot of the “wrong type” of peaches from the honest seller?
minus-squareKlear@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up28·3 个月前That, plus it’s quite a subversion, as every single other Everett True comic ends with him absolutely pulverising someone because he pissed him off.
minus-squareVenator@lemmy.nzlinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down1·3 个月前Maybe the intent is victim blaming: the people in the other strips wouldn’t’ve been pulverised if they’d just been nicer people…
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Ok.
I’m lost now. Somebody, please, explain.
Does he value the honesty of the shopkeeper that much, that he then, instead of going to the competitors store, buys whole lot of the “wrong type” of peaches from the honest seller?
That, plus it’s quite a subversion, as every single other Everett True comic ends with him absolutely pulverising someone because he pissed him off.
Maybe the intent is victim blaming: the people in the other strips wouldn’t’ve been pulverised if they’d just been nicer people…
You got it.