Spacewizard! (Ed H)

@Rolando @truecomics you can mostly predict how much of a good guy Everett is going to be by how closely his form approximates a perfect sphere. Early Everett was more normal human shaped and was just a dick. This is a highly spherical good guy Everett!

@brbposting @Rolando Everett is one of those characters where I can hear his voice absolutely clearly

@Rolando Everett in full “Man of the People” mode. There was another one along the same line where a pastor recognized a rich deacon for donating for foreign missions and Everett yelled that the money would be better spent fixing up the tenements he owned which were in such bad shape they were a danger to the inhabitants

@Rolando sweet Ev image there

@Rolando I hadn’t seen that one!

@verity_kindle @AllNewTypeFace Women achieving property-rights equality with men was a gradual process but well underway by Everett’s time. https://www.thoughtco.com/property-rights-of-women-3529578

Edited cause I forgot to paste the link in

@Rolando This is the second one I’ve seen where True is mortified by the memory of his lovey dovey talk towards Mrs True in their youth.

In the other one he scoffs at a woman talking to a baby in a sugary cootchy-coo kind of way, and Mrs True points out that’s exactly how he used to talk to her when they were courting.

Oh Everett. You will never live down your lovey dovey ways as a youthful swain

@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.

@Rolando @clark he is canonically married

@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

@Rolando @ShareMySims I mean, I don’t think it was understood as a slur at the time. It’s not like anyone in the US knew the correct endonym “Khoekhoe” and was choosing to use a different term “Hottentot” instead in order to express contempt.

But characterizing bowing as an excessively servile action characteristic of a “primitive” people is in and of itself problematic.

@Bougie_Birdie @clark Everett’s pretty damn petty sometimes, this is his karma coming back to bite him.

@mojofrododojo @makeshiftreaper not exactly. Everett is *never ever* physically violent with his wife, like he is with other people. He’s an inconsiderate dick to her, but when that happens she’s the one that wallops him.

Actually I don’t think he’s *ever* violent with women, the way he is with men? Sometimes women are the target of his “outbursts” but he never whacks them with umbrellas or throws them out of the window of a moving train or anything.

@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.

@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