damerell

I like _MegaTokyo_. It's a fine strip; the art's good and it's funny. I don't
rate it as highly as Baldwin's _Bruno_, but _Bruno_ is better than a lot of
pro comic strips, even if it's no _Doonesbury_.

Now it's not always the case that, because you like someone's creative work,
you have to like their opinions - any Sisters fan can tell you that - and I
suppose Piro and Largo aren't obliged to be consistent.

Still. After the WTC destruction, the strip was boggled to the degree you'd
expect given that it's done primarily by a slightly neurotic American (and,
besides, if you were shockingly naive you might not yet have realised that the
US response would be to shoot everyone and invade Poland); it's awful and
terrible and nothing like this has ever happened [1] and how they can't
understand the people who did this.

So far, so good.

So what does Largo's current rant say?

"In recent news, one MT reader doctor'd up a picture of a military
plane with a bomb under it's [sic] wing, on the bomb was written 'evil l33t'. I
can't help but wonder - with all the MT readers that are currently in the
military and overseas in the middle east, if this has ever really
happened. The idea that one of the bombs dropped on Afghanistan has one of our
catch phrases, or even our site url - is too funny too comprehend. If this was
ever the case, I'd kill for a photo of it."

Well, obviously the bombs dropped on Afghanistan aren't killing Americans, so
that's different. Funny, even.

"Hey, did you notice that chunk of shrapnel that took your legs off had a URL
on? Checked it out?"
"Oh, yes. It's an online comic strip."
"Did it make you laugh?"
"Laugh? I nearly died!"

[1] Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Dresden, Vietnam, etc.