@turtlepower But yeah, Everett can be extremely disappointing.
@turtlepower But yeah, Everett can be extremely disappointing.
@turtlepower it varies. Sometimes he’s absolutely in the right (opposing cruelty to animals, corruption, people being selfish and mean), sometimes he’s hilariously petty and ridiculous (he punches a guy for wearing his hat crooked at one point). But that’s late-stage Everett, early Everett just said cruel things and then everybody around him grins or compliments him cause that’s “what they were all thinking”. Lame.
@turtlepower I dunno about sexist, but he’s being a dick. Which is in character for early True, whose only real character trait was being a dick.
Before he had evolved into the later True we all love, who was an avenging angel of over-the top righteous (or sometimes extremely petty) violence.
@turtlepower @clark objectively speaking, based on looks and temperament, Mr. True is not exactly out of her league
@clark early Everett was just a dick.
@clark early Everett is just a dick.
@Rhynoplaz still, on a scale from “punishing someone for cruelty to animals” (not petty at all) to “punishing someone for wearing a hat crooked” (highly petty) I’d say that this is far closer to the “wearing a hat crooked” end of the scale.
(Yes, Everett once walloped a guy for wearing a hat at an excessively jaunty angle)
@Rolando Pettiness level: HIGH
@Bougie_Birdie @clark Everett’s pretty damn petty sometimes, this is his karma coming back to bite him.
@clark True is ahead of his time and on the right side of the issue so much that it’s a bummer when he’s neither one.
@Gradually_Adjusting @Fredselfish Different norms around *comedy* violence. Actual Everett True level violence would get you jailed then or now!
@verity_kindle @clark Everett is canonically embarrassed by being publicly reminded of the sweet lovey-doveys he used to say to Mrs. True when they were courting. If they still speak that way privately to each other, we have divined the background to this strip.
@LodeMike @The_Picard_Maneuver ain’t the first time, won’t be the last
@DaddleDew @clark it’s like in Silver Age comic book covers, where Batman or Mister Fantastic will summarize the whole plot of the comic for the spinner-rack-browsing kids, while throwing a single punch
@clark sometimes he’s just an asshole… early Everett comics, he was nothing *but* an asshole
@Rolando the moment you said that, somewhere in the universe an Everett True comic retroactively sprung into existence in which he has a fursuit and beats the shit about somebody who bullies furries
@Rolando wow. Just keeps on getting more decent and progressive.
@MeDuViNoX @Rolando he’s not morbidly obese, he’s approaching deadly geometric perfection. Like a cannonball, or a sphere of red-hot nickel, or the Demon Core.