July 11, 2013 - As stated above, many of the upcoming comics will deal with storylines regarding rape. I'm going to try my best to make note of any comics specifically in the archive (and I possibly should go back and amend some pages to include trigger warnings), but in the interest of finding a compromise that is both sensitive to survivors of rape and not spoiling future storylines, I've decided to put up a trigger warning at the top of the main page as well as place this paragraph at the top of the blog with considerable lead time before the comics depicting such situations are posted.

Sorry the comic's late. I saw This Is The End which was probably the rape culture-y-ist movie I've ever seen. All of the main characters are presented with extremely casual attitudes towards rape half of which are presented as victims to be laughed at. Ultimately the film's supposed to be about redemption so maybe we're meant to think their opinions on the subject are awful as they obviously take place before they're "redeemed" but the film doesn't have us view the characters as people we should be questioning but rather as people we identify with. I realize the film's a few weeks old but it's new to me and had some pretty glaring problems with the way it presented complex themes and didn't actually deal with them. I guess I shouldn't be surprised considering all the other problems with just having women represented in films, but I worry when you have a film taking it to a next level of blatant disregard for the complexity of the ideas presented while framing it within a narrative structured around redeption, I feel the problem's only getting worse instead of better.

-D