October 14, 2013 - Star's not dead! ...yet. She has a bunch of upcoming surgery left for everyone to worry about, but right now she's getting the best care possible which may allay some of the frustration last weeks comics caused. Maybe?
It's also fairly important to note she's not the only victim here. And the psychological trauma Mary experienced from bearing witness to Star's injury should not be overlooked. Future blogs will probably explore more in depth the normalization of violence in our culture and how though few of us may actually witness violence first hand we're constantly bombarded with images of violence from both the news and other media that potentially hurts our ability to understand and help victims of such violence recover because we've become so desensitized to it (especially when their wounds are more psychological than physical).
It was also pretty important to me to begin this story by having Pete check up on Mary. Frequently pro-life protestors get painted as hypocrites, who value the "life" of the fetus yet not the mother, both in this comic and other media. I wanted to have this experience reveal some of these characters true colors. While everyone else is assumed to have fled, which I think is perfectly reasonable and almost definitely what I would have done, Pete instinctively called the police and wanted to make sure Mary was okay. He may not agree with what the employees of the clinic does, but for him that's still no reason to wish violence upon them and turn a blind eye to them after experiencing such an event. I really don't want the protestors to simply be straw men, and I want to try to expand some of their characterizations beyond angry simpletons. Despite being represented almost exclusively as angry in previous appearances, at least Pete doesn't seem to be angry now.
-D
It's also fairly important to note she's not the only victim here. And the psychological trauma Mary experienced from bearing witness to Star's injury should not be overlooked. Future blogs will probably explore more in depth the normalization of violence in our culture and how though few of us may actually witness violence first hand we're constantly bombarded with images of violence from both the news and other media that potentially hurts our ability to understand and help victims of such violence recover because we've become so desensitized to it (especially when their wounds are more psychological than physical).
It was also pretty important to me to begin this story by having Pete check up on Mary. Frequently pro-life protestors get painted as hypocrites, who value the "life" of the fetus yet not the mother, both in this comic and other media. I wanted to have this experience reveal some of these characters true colors. While everyone else is assumed to have fled, which I think is perfectly reasonable and almost definitely what I would have done, Pete instinctively called the police and wanted to make sure Mary was okay. He may not agree with what the employees of the clinic does, but for him that's still no reason to wish violence upon them and turn a blind eye to them after experiencing such an event. I really don't want the protestors to simply be straw men, and I want to try to expand some of their characterizations beyond angry simpletons. Despite being represented almost exclusively as angry in previous appearances, at least Pete doesn't seem to be angry now.
-D
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