• wjrii@lemmy.worldEnglish
    37·
    5 months ago

    I feel like some folks are getting the wrong idea about our lovable rageaholic with these recent strips…

    • FauxPseudo @lemmy.world
      30·
      5 months ago

      I’m really enjoying these. They show that he isn’t just about beating anybody up but he actually has a code that he lives by. If he beats up everyone, he’s just 1980s Heathcliff. By offering these counter examples, we see a much more complex person.

      • wjrii@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        5 months ago

        This is true, and there was a joking element to my comment, though I do think if you happen to start with these two, expectations will be mis-set in a very jarring way. For those folks, poor Everett is about to snap.

        • FauxPseudo @lemmy.world
          7·
          5 months ago

          Yeah they would be the worst possible introduction to Mr True. It’s like hearing Crazy Little Thing Called Love by Queen and expecting the rest of what they do to be Rockabilly.

  • A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world
    35·
    5 months ago

    I’m not getting it, does he check to see of he’s dreaming because he directed him to a competitor? And then is polite because of it?

    • Terces@lemmy.world
      90·
      5 months ago

      He’s not just being polite but he made the conscious decision that this store is the one he wants to support because they were willing to lose revenue in order to help the customer.

    • southsamurai@sh.itjust.works
      181·
      5 months ago

      Yup, it’s kinda the inverse of the usual shtick for the comic, where he attacks people doing things “he” thinks are socially unacceptable.

  • Zucca@sopuli.xyz
    29·
    5 months ago

    Ok.

    I’m lost now. Somebody, please, explain.

    Does he value the honesty of the shopkeeper that much, that he then, instead of going to the competitors store, buys whole lot of the “wrong type” of peaches from the honest seller?

    • Klear@lemmy.world
      24·
      5 months ago

      That, plus it’s quite a subversion, as every single other Everett True comic ends with him absolutely pulverising someone because he pissed him off.

      • Venator@lemmy.nz
        41·
        5 months ago

        Maybe the intent is victim blaming: the people in the other strips wouldn’t’ve been pulverised if they’d just been nicer people…

  • Mister Neon@lemmy.world
    22·
    5 months ago

    Out of all the dudes that are nearly a 100 I think I would like to hang out with Everett the most.

        • randomaccount43543@lemmy.world
          25·
          5 months ago

          “The Outbursts of Everett True” is likely in the public domain. This comic strip was created by A.D. Condo and J.W. Raper, and it first appeared in 1905. Works published in the United States before 1924 are generally in the public domain.

          Here are some key points to confirm its public domain status:

          1. Publication Date: Since “The Outbursts of Everett True” was first published in 1905, it falls well before the 1924 cutoff.

          2. Copyright Term: For works published before 1924, the original copyright term would have been 28 years, renewable for another 28 years, totaling a possible 56 years. Even if renewed, this would have expired by 1961.

          3. Public Domain Confirmation: Typically, works published over 95 years ago are in the public domain unless there are specific reasons why their copyright might have been extended beyond the normal terms, which is uncommon for early 20th-century works.

          Therefore, “The Outbursts of Everett True” should be in the public domain based on its original publication date.

          • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
            4·
            5 months ago

            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Outbursts_of_Everett_True

            The Outbursts of Everett True (originally titled A Chapter from the Career of Everett True) was an American two-panel newspaper comic strip created by A. D. Condo and J. W. Raper that ran from July 22, 1905[1][2] to January 13, 1927,[3] when Condo had to abandon it for health reasons.

            Some of it was before 1924, and some after. The stuff after won’t be tied to the starting date; copyright will be on each strip independently.

            The title claims here that the strip shown was one of the last ones, from 1926, so I’d expect that it probably is not in the public domain.

      • bizarroland@fedia.io
        81·
        5 months ago

        That would make him older than the universe and not by a little.

        119! = 55745857612076058813234317117419771556272886109483581752463927935846946310374691578057284710599874844234646982443450754604453404911734348832487342619913750049708004343808000000000000000000000000000

  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
    91·
    5 months ago

    You must’ve spent a while filtering Mr. True’s compendium for his reasonable takes, you’d be a good “spin doctor”.

    • Snowclone@lemmy.world
      9·
      5 months ago

      He’s not aways wrong. He does beat a dude for using too small a horse on too big a load. I always liked that one.

      • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
        51·
        5 months ago

        No, he isn’t always wrong, that’s why I mentioned the filtering part. More often than not the comic presents a reactionary, violent jerk or someone who says shitty things justified by “that’s how we all really feel but won’t say it out loud” kind of thing.