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EarthVStheDerek — Thou Hast Been Trolled
Published: 2014-08-22 05:17:01 +0000 UTC; Views: 1717; Favourites: 24; Downloads: 5
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Sometimes, being a sidekick can be a pain. But, sometimes you can make the best of it.Related content
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His real magic power is wise cracks.
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Ha ha! Couldn't agree more.
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I gotta get this on a t-shirt. JK, I think that violates some copyright law.
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Verily. Gaze upon his jimmies, and realize they hath been rustled.
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Despite the whole code of chivalry thing, he's still just a man, like any other.
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C'mon, perverted isn't that bad, could be called Queer, no one likes that word for sure.
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I don't think political correctness would have been big in the medieval ages, but the accusation of being gay would probably have been a dire insult.
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I want to say Paedo but scared I might get the wrong attention and Sir Steve is never that of a person. Reason could be of Garry Glitter is a paedophile and they are described as perverts.
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Good luck casting a pedophile as the good guy.
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well, celebrities were once good guys but turn out to be paedophiles, for example Jimmy Savile and Rolf Harris.
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It's most jarring with children's entertainers. Like, the guy who played Peewee Herman. He did something not too classy or legal in a movie theater.
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Rolf Harris was popular with children from the sixties to the nineties. My mum was a teenager in the 60's and I was a child in the 90's. So he blew us off for all these decades. I don't know Jimmy Savile too well before he got found out he was a predator, I think he died before I was born. He wasn' just a child molester as he used to go after women in mental hospitals and back then, they were withdrawn due to being mistreated.
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Flipper: XDDD
Matthew: I think that was for you to, Flip X3
Flipper: Shut it, blue boy!
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I love the set-up and build-up to the punchline, it works really well. The poses also just make it even greater.
But, there's one thing that kinda killed it for me: "How is Sir Steve perverted?"
Even if he's not perverted, the reaction definitely implies that is. So, yeah, that's confirmation, but...we as readers have nothing really to go back on, know what I mean?
And if it's just Edwin being, well, a troll, that's fine.
I think the joke would have ended better if Edwin had either called him something that was a believable truth for the characters and the readers (thus earning the reaction), OR something so outlandish it couldn't really helped to give some sort of reaction. The 'pervert' remark is kinda in a weird foggy valley of '..Huh', only because this is the first I've ever known Steve was a lech.
Maybe even if Sir Steve was saying all of this while DOING something, well, pervy. Spying on women, reading 'playwench' or something like that.
But, the art style is still nice, and the colors pop and the expressions are funny as always. So, while the joke, I feel, personally fell kinda flat, I still know you make great stuff
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As always, you bring some valid criticism. It's mostly just Edwin being a troll, more than Steve being an actual pervert. In retrospect, maybe I could have used some other term, but I thought "perverted" was kind of funny.
Thanks for the honest input.
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Don't get me wrong, the pervert line does have potential. I just personally felt it fell a little flat. But again, it's your comic, not mine, so you can take my feedback or not and I'll live. It was just thoughts. Sorry if I came off kinda harsh. I didn't mean it to be rude.
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I can understand how there can be a dissonance. Don't worry. You were not rude.
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Well, better he than a singing minstrel like Sir Robin the Brave's crew! 
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Ha ha. Great, now I'm nostalgic for Monty Python. Thanks a lot for the comment. I'm glad you like.
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Huh... so a troll didn't do it.
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It was the future Santa Clause.
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And, wow, how did he get his metal head to blush?
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Nope. At least not a literal one.
As for the blushing helmet, there's no answer except for cartoon logic.
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I guess that makes sense.
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Well, that's what he gets for narrating out loud.
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Especially when his traveling partner is well versed in snark.
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Perfect formula for classic comedy.
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Aww, it's okay Steve... xD there's nothing wrong with being a pervert.
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Ha ha. Just another of his many flaws.
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Get the plates, Steve - you just got served.
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I guess Steve would rather trust someone else to come up with impressive-sounding words to describe himself.
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If he did, he's certainly learned his lesson about it.
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*Giggles* 
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Even Steve himself can't deny it.
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But who can tell, except maybe....earthvsthederek.deviantart.com…
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A good point. We'd know if he is, if he ends up with a slap mark indented into his helmet.
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Or maybe he had his helmet off at the time, and has been wearing it ever since to hide the Princess' slap mark. Whoa, fridge brilliance!
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