Grrl Power #1316 - Gesnewsheit

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So I've been having trouble keeping up with the comic due to helping out my mom, and then my brain hits me with this gag, and of course, the whole thing requires a certain level of art to really land. Max, Hiro and Harem's pictures are supposed to be nice PR shots, and maybe just a little sexy. Then cut to Sydney's "Ren and Stimpy Close-up™" which again, required more involved art than the cell shaded stuff. So this page didn't help me get caught up. But as a writer who is very bad at self-editing, I decided to roll with it. I hope you found it amusing. I know I did. 

As for why Sydney's getting the hit job? I don't know. I don't really have a reason for it, other than the rule of "it made me laugh." I do hand wave it a bit on an upcoming page, but you're welcome to theorize. It entertains me to think that they weren't ready with the graphics, and that picture, titled "A_Snez_Halo.TGA" was the first one in the folder and they just went with it. Like the picture they planned on using had some prominent product in the background, and the ad guy wandered by and nixxed it because the news sold ad time to a competitor. Which as far as I'm concerned, if you do stuff like that, you're not news, you are a unit of entertainment programming. 

I kind of also wanted to do this page because I very rarely show the team doing PR stuff. Well, kind of never, except their public debut and the one time Syd, Max and Dabble went to New York and stood outside a restaurant waving and answering questions for a few minutes. (Featuring a very Frankenstein's monster looking Maxima. Yeesh.) The team is really supposed to all be mega celebrities and doing stuff like that quite often. I don't include it in the comic much, because drawing crowds is a pain in the butt, (Oh, look. I complained about drawing crowds on the NY page too.) and I feel like it'd make for a few perfunctory pages that do a bit of world building, but not much else. So I figure a page like this that shows them having already done it is a good compromise. 

BTW, I googled "gaydies/gaydy" (after writing and drawing the whole page) and apparently it means a gay lady/lesbian. Which makes sense. But here Suzie means to refer to gay men with a word that sounds like "ladies," i.e. someone who might enjoy seeing Hiro flexing and shirtless. So maybe Suzie is going to get some letters from L's and G's. Also white knighting Cis's and performative regressives. Which is probably about average for any given unit of entertainment. Do people even bother writing letters/emails anymore to complain to broadcasters/streaming services? There's a lot of "offensive" media out there. Or at least stuff that I academically understand why someone might be offended by it. Like Preacher with the 90-generation inbred messiah, or every other episode of IASIP/Southpark, etc. I have a feeling there's a lot less letter writing these days and a lot more general grousing online. Obviously the online option wasn't available 30 years ago, I just mean I think it takes less effort to be offended on your FB/Insta than it does to find the email address of someone who might actually read anything you send them at Netflix/NBC/Apple/Disney/etc.