TobyBartels: But the intro is written in-character by Steve Dallas, is it not? Doesn’t he say he finds the strip generally offensive anyway? My point is, maybe you need to take the intro with a grain of salt? I know sometimes newspapers in certain markets did censor this strip, but I really do wonder if sometimes BB didn’t change something after the fact to make it (in his opinion) better. Somewhere on the web (sorry don’t have the site name) I remember a comparison of 2 versions of strips with some dialogue being edited just to be shorter, not because there was anything offensive. To the owner of the site it looked like BB was rethinking the original–for the worse. Unless he ever deigns to tell us so, I guess we’ll never know for sure. Just my 2 pennies. :)
TobyBartels: But the intro is written in-character by Steve Dallas, is it not? Doesn’t he say he finds the strip generally offensive anyway? My point is, maybe you need to take the intro with a grain of salt? I know sometimes newspapers in certain markets did censor this strip, but I really do wonder if sometimes BB didn’t change something after the fact to make it (in his opinion) better. Somewhere on the web (sorry don’t have the site name) I remember a comparison of 2 versions of strips with some dialogue being edited just to be shorter, not because there was anything offensive. To the owner of the site it looked like BB was rethinking the original–for the worse. Unless he ever deigns to tell us so, I guess we’ll never know for sure. Just my 2 pennies. :)