The Adventures of Superior Man and Lesser Girl

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I have of late–but
wherefore I know not–lost all my mirth, forgone all
custom of exercises; and indeed it goes so heavily
with my disposition that this goodly frame, the
earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most
excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave
o’erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted
with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to
me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason!
how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how
express and admirable! in action how like an angel!
in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the
world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me,
what is this quintessence of dust?

We’re back on track.

…maybe I should have composed panel three to be flipped horizontally. This way Lesser girl would fly in the first direction of Western comic time (left -> right), her parabola landing her in a bloody heap in panel four.

I was trying to come up with some sort of short-hand for it, but facts are facts: I’m currently diseased, and you aren’t worth it. The strip will be up soon.

Ah, Mark Poutenis, what can’t you combine?

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The fallacy of “escalation of commitment” refers to investing a lot of work, emotional energy, time, money or whatever it is that you value in a project, then, as it fails, continuing to pour yourself into it even though the rational thing to do is drop it

like hot iron. The cruel thing about escalation of commitment is that, after engaging in it once, you have even more invested in a project and are even more unwilling to drop it.

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There’s a math problem that goes like this. Let’s assume there are one-thousand people on a small island. If one person gets a car, ze can whiz around the island’s allegedly vacant roads and get to work in 5 minutes 10 seconds, saving 55 minutes of commuting. If 2 people get a car, they can whiz around except for the time when they run into each-other and have to slow down, taking say 5 minutes, 20 seconds to arrive, and saving 54m, 40s. If each extra car adds about 10 seconds to everyone’s commute, then if 6 people get a car, drivers have to watch out for each other now and then, so they each take 6 minutes, saving 54 minutes each.Commute time = 300s + 10s x (# of drivers)

(you can skip to the end if you don’t like math)

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Did I draw Lesser Girl tiny? Or did I draw Superior Man huge? Or both?

And, in doing this, was I making a statement? Or not?

Or are these their real sizes, with all the other strips being distorted?

And what does it mean for Lesser Girl to be smaller than Superior Man? What does smaller mean in my culture? Why does “small” equate with powerless, instead of able to go where others cannot, easier to hide and less resource-intensive? What are the implications of the masculine being presumed to be larger than the feminine? How then does this affect the lives of people who are unusually small or large? Or ethnic groups that are smaller or larger than others around them?

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…of this strip is that it actually happened. I mean, it isn’t inspired by true events or some garbage, but that it happened after we wrote it to someone we know.

A friend of ours was walking with a lady friend of his and they reached a busy street. He, confident in his masculine invulnerability (much like our protagonist), strode dangerously across the street, without watching whether or not she followed. Then, trepidatiously, she ran after him and got hit by a car.

Craziness.