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Published: 2019-04-16 21:49:31 +0000 UTC; Views: 46896; Favourites: 1214; Downloads: 159
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Latest comic update, wrapping up this 'chapter'. Revisiting some other characters, next time.All of the comics can be most easily read at the Archive on the web site, or in mobile format at Webtoon .
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The temperance movement and ultimately national prohibition had a lot of religious underpinnings, but there were also quite a few religious groups (Catholics, Jews, German Lutherans, for example) who resisted climbing aboard that bandwagon - some of them vehemently so. As Abelard tries to rant-explain here, for both the 'dry' and the 'wet', prohibition wasn't really about alcohol as vice. In fact, for many the intemperance and immorality were not so much in the bottle as they were in the culture war at hand, the muddling of church doctrine with dry propaganda, the frightening government overreach,Β the gift to certain monopolistic behemoths at the expense of farmers and a multitude of smaller businesses, and the threat to minority religious and ethnic groups in the form of extremely broad policing of the 18th Amendment.
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One thing that always amazes me about these comics is the lighting. It adds to the mood, and I love the sepia tones it has.
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I like the history lesson!Β Please espouse further sometime.
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I've just finished an informative half-hour reading about the 18th Amendment . Lots of extra detail and background that helps me follow this fabulous comic even more betterer.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eighteenβ¦
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Oh, God, Ivy's so scared. TBH so am I, I've grown to really care for these characters and I want them to get out of things OK but there is no guarantee that they can.Β
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That moment when you click a piece on deviantArt and realize it's a comic with an entire archive of previous stuff behind it. And then your afternoon is gooooooooone...
Writing, story and art wise this is fantastic!
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Thank you - that's very kind!Β And thanks for reading!
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Oh, I know - I know!
I'm so glad you found the best ever internet comic!
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I adore your little notes about the time period and historical underpinnings.Β
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Preacher tom's right, you know.
And let's remember that this is the lass that had a VERY foreboding dream a while back.
She's looking for action, adventure and excitement. That's now where this business leads.
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Nicely drawn indeed.
Ken Burns made an excellent documentary about Prohibition- if you haven't seen it already, you really should.
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She's DRIVING!
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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In Ivy's defense those things are hard to start.
STORY TIME
So my Granny learned to drive at 16 (c. 1943) because her dad- who owned a boarding stable- dropped an anvil on his foot. No one was around but Granny, so she had to drive him to the hospital.
The car was a 1920s Whippet. Granny was- as mentioned- 16, maybe 4'10" and perhaps 100lbs soaking wet. She had to stand up to get enough oomph to depress the clutch. Said she didn't sit down the entire drive there.
She had a younger sister and an older sister and a mother, but her mother never did learn to drive, and her sisters didn't learn to drive until after they were married. Granny drove everyone around until her father recovered.
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Wonderful story - thanks for sharing that!Β Your grandmother was a bamf!
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I will say this about the "War on Drugs" as fact, not opinion:
I was college-age in the mid-1980s, at the height of the crime wave. I was there. The college was in Poughkeepsie, but I had to go down to New York City frequently- what a mess.
While there at that college I knew some hick kids from Nowhere, USA. Places they didn't put on the map because nobody could see dots that small.
They had trouble with crack-cocaine (again, this was the mid-1980s).
Now, these folks came from isolated places that were nowhere near waterways or oceans, train lines, any sort of major highways, airports, I mean NOTHING.
Yet there were drugs. Nobody seemed to know exactly HOW they were getting there, what drug dealer was going to bother with such places when there were so many lucrative places with easier access? How did these drugs manage to seemingly appear almost everywhere at once?
I'll say it here: the government has a hand in it. This excuses draconian laws and makes private prisons even more profitable.
Heck, there's a chilling letter that appeared in Business Insider, allegedly written by someone claiming to have been at a meeting in 1991. It was a music executive meeting where what we now call "gangsta rap" was to be pushed, especially in black communities, to help fill for-profit prisons- something the writer did not know anything about that being 1991.
Point is, we must take care of ourselves. Don't just say no to drugs, say no to all of it!
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I respect your intelligence, and put that story in my "mind blown if true" box, along with all the alternative history stuff I gathered.
If what you said is true, it will all make sense in the end.
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You must keep in mind how long I've been around. Over half a century.
If I took modern "Gangsta Rap" and went back in time to the, say, mid-1990s- a quarter of a century- and played it it would be almost impossible to distinguish from what was put out in those days.
Now, look at the other music trends I saw in my life: Punk, Disco, New Wave, Heavy Metal, Grunge...how long did any of that last in the mainstream?
Yet violent ugly gangsta rap remains. If you look around every ugly trend started in the 1990s in earnest are still around, it's like we never left that decade. Why? Why that one music trend that has so damaged black communities and even white communities ("whiggers").
So to someone who has seen so many changes, including increasingly draconian government action, in his lifetime, there is a definite pattern. If you've never seen the 1970s version of "Rollerball" do so- it was chillingly prescient.
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I am only familiar with Rollerball as "that so bad it's good movie" that people love to mock. Will check it out, though I learned from reality enough, not sure what new that movie has in store.
And sorry Tracy, for so much derailing in your comment section.
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Except...especially that last page IS conspiracy theory.
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Actually, the so-called "War on Drugs" had nothing to do with racism.
That is why any effort to change anything keeps failing- injecting what we now call political correctness into everything. The animal rights movement took a heavy blow when it started doing this back in the early 1990s.
It boiled down to economics. Corporations and the government do not object to drug use and never have; it's only when one uses "non-approved" drugs that it becomes a bad thing- but the reality is that now we are in the most drugged-out era in American history. "Brave New World" and "Rollerball" (1970s version) were much more accurate warnings than "1984" ever was.
Also, it was about hemp. Around that time an economical process for making hemp paper was invented, and that threatened the Hearst paper pulp industry. So he used his newspapers to start a war on marijuana/hemp, and it worked. Ironically the government and media did a full 180 when World War 2 broke out- then it was patriotic to grow hemp.
Even where I live, with its crummy climate, one could grow marijuana easily. But "they" would rather one takes Prozac or whatever else is being sold these days than smoking a homemade joint. After all, how much profit is there in the latter for corporations and government?
You had also better be aware that our society has gone completely insane. Aside from the obvious trends, the DSM now declares belief in conspiracies as a form of mental illness- all the while ignoring the fact that our judicial system (i.e. government) convicts people of just that all of the time; logically then our government system is insane. But this obvious contradiction, like so many others, is just accepted.
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Not really.
I am going to tell you this here and now- if you keep bringing in political correctness you will get nowhere. More and more people are fed up with it and if you include it in the mix anything you say will fall on deaf ears. I have been on this mudball of a planet for half a century and I have seen the results of all of it as it happened.
Corporations have always been behind much of it all. The Hearst empire equated hemp with marijuana so they could be rid of potential competition against their wood pulp industries. People voted for the war on drugs simply because propaganda by government and corporations was pushed by mass media in an effort to get people used to throwing their rights away (the "war on terror" does the same thing) and to create a population of apathetic sheeple. Such is easy to control; have you ever seen a whole flock of sheep being controlled by just one cute little Sheltie? Try to understand: if I could go back in time and with Sartenian magic eliminate all non-white people just to see what would happen...the war on drugs would be unchanged. Human nature is human nature.
Haven't you ever wondered why it was boys, especially white boys, being drugged for phony disorders like "ADD/ADHD?" It wasn't just because feminists wanted girls to have an advantage, they were useful idiots- it's because if you can bring down the white male population Western society is doomed. In Europe women are becoming afraid because white men are no longer trying to protect them- and why should they given decades of feminist and leftist abuse (in 1984 when I could vote this wouldn't even have been an issue)? Didn't you notice that the war on drugs really went into high gear at the same time "legal" drugs like Ritalin and Prozac were being heavily pushed? All of this was by design.
Also, you do realize that racism works both ways? Or haven't you noticed the hate being generated against white people, especially white males- "All In the Family" was a classic example of "psy-ops." Marvel comics has changed many heroes into "diversity"- didn't you notice that the VILLAINS haven't; is Magneto now a Hispanic transexual lesbian? Of course not. The Joker, the Penguin, too many to list...nope.
This whole mess, and the "war on drugs" is just part of it, also has a bigger implication- the European Union, the fact that fewer and fewer corporations control more and more...it is obvious that an effort to move us back to monarchies is underway. Granted nobody is wearing a crown (yet), but if one defines "monarchy" as a few controlling the many without the many having any real say, then that is what we are getting. They consolidate while the masses are divided. Adults encouraged to wear diapers, drugging being the new normal...to make it easier to control. Pass the Soma, but without the benign aspects of "Brave New World" or even "Rollerball," where at least the masses got something in return.
History may well decide that this time was the beginning of a new Dark Age. And with good reason.Β
Be aware, dear sir- we're in for a really rough ride ahead.
Keep it up.
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Problem is, it's pick and choose.
Poor whites were generally the ones making "moonshine."
They were targeted by Prohibition too, ruthlessly. Meanwhile, a Senator caught with a whiskey still- a Senator who helped push Prohibition!- got away with it.
No, "racism" was not the factor- it was money. Granted, maybe someone tried to push "drugged out blacks" somewhere, but people knew what was really going on. But law enforcement was rather selective, and poor people knew not to push too hard- or else. Money. That is the reality.
The very word "slave" originally meant one of Slavic origin- this is why Kirk Douglas was able to play "Spartacus." Most slaves in Ancient Rome were white.
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If only leftists, especially feminists, understood that last part...if they keep attacking and hurting me, why should I care about them?
Look, again money is always the root of it. In 1879 the British government was ready to talk peace with the Zulu kingdom, because the Anglo-Zulu wars were proving too big a hassle for little gain- but diamonds were discovered at Kimberly (yet another amazing coincidence that makes it impossible for me to be an atheist).
Surprise surprise- the war was continued, and the Zulu lost. Of course, the Zulu kingdom got to where it was by conquest and warfare. With humans, there are rarely any angels, no matter what races are involved. The Zulu beat up on weaker tribes and forced them into the kingdom; the stronger British beat up on the Zulu and took their land. And so it goes, and likely always will.
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Quite true.
It's really the same motive overall isn't it? PC types push Marxism because they feel they'll be the elites; with your "rich" example it's because people want to be among the rich. How many rich liberals use tax shelters to dodge paying taxes whereas before they were whining about rich people "paying their fair share?"
Part of the problem is inefficiency. Americans actually pay the most into health care yet the system, especially after Obamacare, is a bloated, inefficient mess that still requires people (you see it all the time around here) to have some sort of benefit drive to pay the costs for cancer or some other serious condition. Compare that to the system in places like The Netherlands. This sort of thing is why people might "side" with the rich; they just see the government wanting more money to waste. This is why I opposed Obamacare: it was just another pro-corporation scam by the government- the left's answer to the Savings & Loans Deregulation fiasco of the 1980s.
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I read this super long conversation (long as in word count) in a Lackadaisy comment section (just wow), and I have to say, you are not getting super upset and take all the walls of text in an intelligent manner. A random stranger is complimenting you. You could have gone angry and made this into a flame war, but you didn't.
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Sometimes it's hard for me to focus on the story when all I can think about is how amazing the artwork is Β
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There's great beauty in longsuffering. And she's been suffering for some time.
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Yeah, a lot of people had the misguided notion that alcohol was the sin which caused all sins and getting rid of it would make all right in the world. In the end, it just made things worse then it ever was before and caused more corruption to sprout then had been before. And then when things enviably went back to how it was, previously, it had a new layer of corruption, (ala a lot of gangs got their foothold in bootlegging,) that wasn't there before.
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I'm as always in awe of the art here, and the storytelling:
The whole rainy scene in panels 3-5 both contrasts the barn on both an artistic and emotional level, outside, rainy and unpleasant, but it's where they get the "ok coasts is clear sign from", while inside where it's relatively dry as where they socialize, yet it's where fear reigns, both from the ranty cat and the wee teenager.
Love the Big toms worldly wisdom in this one, he has a certain charm to him that's hard to not appreciate
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In real life it can be hard to get too manny words into a conversation before being interrupted. However, it was a smart move to make these two talkative characters a preacher and a storyteller, otherwise a lot of the exposition would be out of place.
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The speech bubble in the car. So simple, yet there's a bit of onomatopoeiaΒ to it? Like, who hasn't talked to somebody inside their car? You can see how it sounds.Β
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If I understand the gist correctly, he's saying that living a moral life has to be motivated from within - a matter of active personal choice and not something you can actually create through legislation.
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Spot on. "From the treasure of the heart the mouth speaks."
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