Landed here from @thedailysneak and glad I did. It may sound heretical to you but I'm not much for cartoons. And yet I love your style. Anything with those black outlines appeals to me for some unknown reason, but it's the skill and verve of the whole thing that makes it. I actually forgot you'd said there was a Part 1 and got sucked into this, so will have to back up. Quite the rich imaginative world you have going on. It's also a pleasure to read something so well written and thoroughly proofed (though you might want to look at 'prostate' if it's not too late). Not gonna end on a quibble - thanks again for this rich layer added to your already brilliant work. As a newbie it's slightly discouraging to see it hasn't been better rewarded thus far, but that's a separate topic.
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Thanks so much for your thoughtful response! (and the heads up on the wrong word) I appreciate your kind words regarding my writing too. I regard myself as really rusty, so it's nice to know I'm not doing too badly! I'm new too, it's weird being somewhere that's not a shitposting political shit slinging match (which I enjoy, but it's nice to have a respite)
I know what you mean about shitslinging being a form of fun and agree to a point, though I think the worst form of it has been damaging to the discourse and a factor in where we find ourselves. On YouTube it's all but inescapable. On an MSNBC video you expect it, but you can't be checking out an Indian music video without stumbling on the vilest racism. I spent the past three years or so researching a book about the prehistory of jazz and by the end was getting to think the progress made in the second half of the 20th century really is being reversed and we're sliding back to the times I was writing about. Doubtless this stuff has never gone away and what the internet has done is drag it into the open. But it's done more, amplifying it and giving it a spurious legitimacy (because freedom of speech). Anyway, after that little blast I'll say you don't read at all rusty to me, keep up the great work and power to your dexterous pen.
YouTube is almost comically bad. Instant fighting. Thanks for your vote of confidence!