Offensive Measures

This strip is related to ones from earlier this year where Winslow was trying to find ways to improve Ben & Winslow, which he thinks has become stale and uninteresting. Oh Winslow. Poor, poor, Winslow. This strip will never become stale. It is like a cheese, perfected with age and the occasional tuft of blue mold.

Humor often touches on sensitive or taboo subjects, but I hate it when people spout offensive things in unexpected situations and claim they’re being funny. It reeks of desperation, not a delicious cheese.

This is one of several ideas that went off on a darker tangent than I had initially planned, and it took several tries to get it juuuuust right. The intent here, of course, isn’t to offend anyone, and this one walks a finer line than most. And also appears on September 11th, when people are already in a somber mood. This was either perfect timing or the worst.

This is probably not canon.

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This first appeared on Defenestration www.defenestrationmag.net on Friday, September 11th.

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---AK