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Sunday best – A Tale of Joe

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Dex on a stroll through Gotham City.

Dex on a stroll through Gotham City.

It’s Sunday again, so no black and white strip today, but check out the full colour splash page we have to offer instead! (Click the image to “biggerize” it to its glorious full size – special thanks to Dan Piraro for the use of his word today).

Those of you who have perused our About page will know that Tim went on to bigger and better things after we shut down Rivertown News. One of the projects for which he is best known is Batman: Gotham Adventures.

In issue number 41, he needed a character who was making bad choices and in need of help from the Batman to prevent him from going down a bad path. Tim had some fun dusting off our character and reshaping him for this part in the issue.

You can see Dex’s trademark vest and goatee are present, but the scarf might have added too much artistic flair for the needs of this character, so he left it out. And that’s how Dex became Joe in an alternate universe.

Happy Sunday and thanks for reading!

Thanks For Coming Out

In the early 90s, diversity was coming to the comics pages. Both Doonesbury and For Better or For Worse had gay characters and we didn't want to be left behind. The strip didn't last long enough to do much with this storyline, but I thought what we did was funny.

In the early 90s, diversity was coming to the comics pages. Both Doonesbury and For Better or For Worse had gay characters and we didn’t want to be left behind. Our goal was to have characters that were a slice of real life, reflective of people who were our friends and family. There was a backlash (mostly in the States) about gay characters on the comics page, which was another reason we wanted to put our support out there. Our offering didn’t warrant even one letter to the editor in London, Canada, so I’ll take that as a sign we handled the subject well. I also think Tim nailed the reactions perfectly in the last panel.