Latest revision |
Your text |
Line 13: |
Line 13: |
| | | |
| I'm uncomfortable with the comparison to the situation in Ukraine. It's really too much of a stretch. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.211.18|172.70.211.18]] 06:57, 9 March 2022 (UTC) | | I'm uncomfortable with the comparison to the situation in Ukraine. It's really too much of a stretch. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.211.18|172.70.211.18]] 06:57, 9 March 2022 (UTC) |
− | :I also would not have mentioned it, myself. But it's probably one of the biggest current news-stories worldwide (except in Russia, where it's effectively a censored issue!) and so I'm not surprised it was used by some reader/explainer as a possible comparison of "things that being unavoidably stung by insects is better than", in far too many real-world cases.
| |
− | :If I'm any judge of Randall, he ''wants'' to voice support to all the besieged and fleeing Ukranians, and would freely do a 'comic' to mark current events if he had something in mind worth publishing. I don't think this is that comic. I don't know how he would even do it, but that's not my call to make.
| |
− | :: C'mon. Remember long standing banner "BLM, how you can help"? Remember "I'm with her" comic? If he wanted, he would do it. [[User:Tkopec|Tkopec]] ([[User talk:Tkopec|talk]]) 09:07, 9 March 2022 (UTC)
| |
− | ::: Yes, I remember both. I half expected a banner thing (I tend to visit explainxkcd more frequently than xkcx, so I might miss it at first except for such notes about it made in the appropriate wiki-pages) and can only guess as to why there isn't one.
| |
− | ::: "I'm with her" got a lot of push-back (as might have the BLM-banner, but that wasn't displacing a 'funny comic' space) and I really can't predict what he'd do (with loads of blue and yellow?) to put forward a message of support for the legitimate occupants of Ukraine that is worth a 'comic slot'. He might be blogging it/twittering/etc, but I'm not sufficiently a cyber-stalker to keep my eyes on those.
| |
− | ::: Hence my conclusion that while I ''think'' he's sympathetic, the message hasn't been made yet. Not in this comic, anyway. (I've seen that Wednesday is out early, already, but not yet visited its page on my current systematic read-through.) It's all just an impression, though. Didn't mean to make this (or the prior comment that we're in the middle of) an essay. It just takes more words to voice than is really quite a simple conceptual thought. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.90.121|172.70.90.121]] 20:02, 9 March 2022 (UTC)
| |
− | :On the other hand, if untold future readers can't benefit from knowing it as a contemporaneous comparison then it would be very strange (or worrying). I say leave it, at least until more reflection (or subsequent events) changes the perspective/provides a newer and 'better' example. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.86.64|172.70.86.64]] 08:45, 9 March 2022 (UTC)
| |
− |
| |
− | "Given such an attack, Megan would probably not be standing around in routine conversation, casually discussing the incident. She would far more likely be in a hospital bed, and in a gruesome fight for her life." Given that nowhere in the comic is it said that this conversation is happening immediately after the incident itself, it seems reasonable to assume that said hospitalization has already happened, quite possibly a long time ago. [[User:Somdudewillson|Somdudewillson]] ([[User talk:Somdudewillson|talk]]) 15:33, 9 March 2022 (UTC)
| |
− | :Not THAT long ago. IMHO this conversation is first Megan and Cueball have since the incident. Maybe she got out of hospital and starts seeing friends? -- [[User:Hkmaly|Hkmaly]] ([[User talk:Hkmaly|talk]]) 22:22, 9 March 2022 (UTC)
| |