Book One, page 59

bravo1102 on Aug. 13, 2017

Thanks everyone for the nominations. Thank you for being featured. Now this comic needs “likes” If you're coming by, just press the like button. You don't have to like the comic, press click the button. With all my comics there has never been one with over 20 likes. All my Drunk Duck nominations and awards never more than 17 likes. So someone is saying that I put out a quality comic. Except you.

I could go into a detailed account of just why some opinions count more than others. Some are just better educated. Some are just more cultured and have a thought process based on broader experience. Sorry but a 12 year old saying he don't like some movie is not the same as the head movie critic at a major newspaper. The child may know what he likes, but he has a lot to learn. His brain is about halfway towards its final development. His critical thinking skills are sorely deficient. So I tend to read the New York Times. I have found a lot of unlikely movies through them like Dead Snow.

Just click the like button. You've come by read a couple of pages and see if it's worth your time. Never judge a comic by one page. Every creator has a bad day. That one page could be the worst thing he ever created. Go through a half dozen or so and see the range of his work and then judge. And click like. Shows you care. Creating a comic can be awfully lonely and sometimes the one “like” can make all the difference.

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The black box and asterisks are here on this page too. Even Ragnar's remark about Tyr One-hand is explained even though he is an historical deity. Like how many people know every Norse god? Most people don't even know the days of week. Tuesday is Tyr's day of the week under his Teutonic name Tiw. Wednesday is Odin's day of the week under his Teutonic name Woden. English is a Germanic language first spoken by the Angles and Saxons who invaded Britain and renamed after themselves England. And the remaining original Britons were renamed “Strangers” the Welsh. So we English speakers are hip deep in the Germanic origins of our language. And then one third of modern English is from Old Norse. Those Vikings had lots of interaction with the Anglo-Saxons and left their mark on the landscape with place names and a lot of words entering the language including an innocuous little word “fok” which meant “strike” and which could have evolved into the colloquialism for sex “fuck” It is the only verb in English for having sex. Other languages have words that mean fucking. We just have fuck and a bunch of ambiguous euphemisms. “Making love” used to just refer to flirting and wooing now it's reserved for the actual acts. We're stuck with “having sex” or using Latin terminology some of which to an Ancient Roman was as profane as fuck is to us. But it's Latin so it's okay.

Historical rant brought to you by too many hours spent studying this stuff for exams.