Last words

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Fuck censorship

lba

on Feb. 4, 2008

I'm in a funny mood tonight and can't make up my mind here, so you guys get three comics ( How many other webcomics give you triple content every time the author can't make up his mind?). I'd post them one each day but they're all on the same subject and they sort of work together so they're going up as one update. Censorship is something I don't particularly appreciate very much. That's why I will allow damn near any comment on Last words ( though admittedly you guys don't make my life difficult at all.) and I don't get pissy if someone says something offensive. I don't think I or anyone else needs to censor much of anything, especially here on the internet. I'm willing to say just about anything goes ( It's not like I could stop you if you wanted to.).

That being said, once in a while someone sends me something I'm just not sure how to react to. Just today I received a little something in my email ( I don't know where they got my personal email address and it concerns me a bit.) from a person whom stated that they were representing The Christian Coalition of the Quad Cities, a local Christian organization. That person ( I won't name names or quote them for privacy.) explained to me in the most polite of terms that I am destined for hell. They base this on their own scholarly experience with the bible and the fact that I am apparently attempting to bring children to Satan by disguising, vulgar language, excessive violence and nudity. Yes, nudity. This floors me, as I have no idea how the characters I draw could be considered perverted smut as they implied ( I get how they're nude, but smut? They're boxes with legs.). I'll give them the language, and maybe a little of the violence, but I rated this comic as teen for a reason ( durr.).

Quite frankly, I kinda figured I wasn't going to heaven anyway ( Since it sounds boring to me.) so I'm not going to call that a huge loss, but I guess what amuses me about this so much is that A) I kinda feel legitimized as a cartoonist by this, my first hate mail, and B) I can't believe someone went through the effort to yell at me about this. I feel honored to know that I've pissed someone off so bad they felt they need to write me a letter.