And we’re back!!
Another hiatus successfully recovered from. Only thing is we didn’t make it back in color. I have a feeling that Noah’s life of working in the very demanding video game industry and being part owner of a school of self defense is taking his time up pretty heavily. We’ll press on in black and white and hope for the best, for now.
If you want to be in the Bear Battle Print, there is still room. Just click the banner on the right side of this page. I can’t really start it until enough people sign up for it.
Also, TODAY is the end of my sale at www.AxeCopWedding.com, so if you want any of those items, better go now!
I’ll be at San Diego Comic Con this year and we will have a few Bearmageddon items at the booth.
Also… the Nigel contest was pretty awesome. I feel like The first one by Matthew Sargent and the last one by Matthew Waranius were my two favorites. Tell me in the comments which one you think deserves to be the winner and I’ll make a choice by next week.
Ethan
Awesome! You’re married!
Glad to get back into the story. Always something funny going on.
Oh, and there is a typo on the “to” in the third block, first bubble.
If feces attract bears, it’s a good thing they got rid of that giant turd with the bandanna.
Welcome back!
Now. Andrea’s last like is typically the compromise all intelligent and reasonable people have landed on. It’s not a gender issue, it’s a competence issue.
Also you’re missing an ‘o’ in the 4th panel, Killdeer’s bubble.
That should be ‘line’ not ‘like’. Hard to judge your spelling and grammar if I mess my own up!
alright, fixed that like.
You want to read up on Muphry’s Law 🙂
Pardon me, but I believe I did the first one. I think you’re getting your color flatters confused.
woops! That’s embarrassing.
It’s okay. It’ll be our secret.
Welcome back Ethan! I hope your wedding and honeymoon went well.
thanks they did! And…. I saw a bear in Yosemite. Totally forget to mention that in the blog.
Fourth panel: “Then I want you to mark as much of the area with your own urine” – should it be “as much of the area *as you can* with your” ?
I’m a young human male, and I can cook quite well. But in my experience, too, most young males can’t or won’t.
Congratulations on the wedding, Ethan.
If you really want readers to help you choose the contest winner, my vote goes for Matthew Waranius and his “even our good friend Barry managed to attend despite having been decapitated” strip.
Ironically enough, I’ve been taking a course for two months that is teaching me how to work in a professional kitchen. There are a few guys in it. They are really good–one of them is constantly trying to cook new things at home.
Anyhow, enough about that–as we all know there are some exceptions to those things.
As for the constest winner–I really liked that last one.
Can you give us some idea on how many people have signed up for the bear battle print and how many more you need to be able to get started on it? Also, just cause it would be cool to know, any particularly interesting bears people have requested to be fighting?
both Matthews did a great job, but I’m going to vote for Waranius
This whole page screams “I have issues with gender but I’m going to try and justify them anyway”. And to think I attributed the same problems on Axe Cop to Makachai’s young age…
You should read something on male domination (maybe Masculine Domination by Pierre Bourdieu) some day, you might be surprised with how much of it we tend to miss.
This post screams “I have issues with anything that attempts to talk about sexism and I will insult the writer who tries it.”
I find it funny how it was sexist in the 1940s to say women can’t cook. For instance, Le Cordon Bleu refused to admit women until Julia Child broke into the school because it was perceived that women couldn’t cook. Even today, the chef profession is mostly dominated by men. I’m rather perplexed how this “women belong in the kitchen” thing even started.
I find that fascinating. That’s really cool to know. Feminists tend not to have a long term perspective — neither do cultural dissenters of any type, for that matter.
I think the solution is for people stop caring so much about gender types. Sure, some of it does arise from culture, but men and women are going to be better or worse at things simply due to the fact that men and women are different. Why do we give such a flying rat crap?
Mostly we give such a flying crap because conscious sexist perceptions held by individuals influence them in ways they don’t realize and make things pretty awful for a lot of people. Leading to anything from unequal pay for the same job all the way to violence against women stemming from cultural dehumanization.
Small perceptions like ‘women should be in the kitchen’ make it easier for worse ones like ‘she was dressed so slutty and was flirty so she deserved to be raped’.
Reducing someone from a person deserving of your consideration and respect to an ‘other’ that isn’t as good as or worth as much as you is the first step, then they become an object. Life is not fun for objects. Ask some of your old broken toys.
Obviously I’m not saying that everyone who even utters a half-felt sexist remark is a rapist. Just the actions and results of a society are directly interconnected to their cultural perceptions, big and small.
Actually I am a fantastic cook. (My wife is good as well, we typically cook together. Lots of fun. even in the small kitchen we have) But enough of my fellow dude friends don’t/can’t or won’t, and almost everyone I get all spice nerdy with is a woman…
So yea. No offense taken.
Funny how women are always far better than men in webcomics, and it’s often heavily showed or explained. But it’s not sexism in this way, nosire.
:-p
but it’s kinda true, especially at that age: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/10111993/Men-grow-up-at-43-11-years-later-than-women.html
Also, women tend to have slightly longer natural lifespans than men, pretty much across the board worldwide. There are many explanations, but one basic one is that women don’t do as much of the insane and idiotic stuff that men do ‘just to try it out’.