July 12, 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.

Theresa comics are among my favorites. Think I maybe should have paced the dialogue differently and ended on a beat panel, but this ends the Sr. Catherine storyline for archival purposes.

Despite what's going on in San Diego, the U-T Sand Diego published this article which pertains to some of what I was discussing yesterday in how women, especially young women and teenagers are frequently portrayed as little more than sex objects and how such media negatively influences teen attitudes. The odd thing about all this is that I believe I read something that said most people find narratives where sex is removed more entertaining than narratvies that include sex, unfortunately I couldn't find this study though but I did find an article about how though sex may attract people to an advertisement it doesn't actually make people as likely to respond to an advertisement. It's similar to the argument over why you want to use blue logos instead of red logos in advertising. Essentially red is eye-catching, blue instills trust, so blue may need to work harder to get you to notice but has to work less hard to get bought; again don't have to link to this study either because now I'm going a little off topic. But check out what I did link to.

-D