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I'm not sure if putting a cold-blooded murder in an otherwiise light-hearted comic was a good idea or not. My intention was to show that, as Katie suspected, Mr. Argyle DOES have a double standard for dealing with male and female subordinates... but MAYBE... the ladies are getting the more favorable treatment!web-ed wrote: ↑Thu Nov 16, 2023 9:14 pm Well, that was unexpected!
I'm certainly not disturbed by the double standard at S.P.A.N.K. and I doubt anyone else here is either - besides, as B00m noted, it's in favor of the girls - but the sudden termination of Agent Burns does raise some artistic questions. I don't think we can answer them just yet, though.
In general, how violent, how serious, can a humor strip be? Li'l Abner offers some clues: Fearless Fosdick often suffered so many bullets being shot through him he looked like swiss cheese afterward, but the effect was extremely comical because he continued on in typical block-headed fashion, undisturbed by what should have been fatal injuries. But Burns' termination doesn't fall into that category even though the scene was depicted without any excessive gore (unlike, say, pre-code crime comics).
Neither does it appear to be satire, which was frequently biting in Abner where the demise of the Shmoo, for example, was anything but comical. And could Katie support that kind of satire?
It would be a mistake to leap to any conclusions here. For one thing, we don't know yet if Burns' death is real or some sort of hoax designed to induce Katie to take on a mission that would no doubt result in her getting spanked! We're going to have to wait patiently without preconceptions and let this story develop.
I'm glad you enjoyed it.butch46163@yahoo.com wrote: ↑Fri Nov 17, 2023 4:38 pm This is a really good and exciting spanking of Katie! love the rear view![]()
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In this instance, I think he'd bo more likely to invoke the "Spanked-at-Work=Spanked-at-Home" rule.
That's true.
Yeah. Thanksgiving Day seems to be mostly a North American thing. And Canada celebrates on a different day than the U.S. I think it may have been inspired by harvest festivals that were sometimes held in parts of Europe.