![]() When they step out of line and use real curses, they’re told to “Grawlix that.” It becomes about decorum in the text, which is much, much more interesting than being polite outside of the text. Abnett here is using grawlix as a safe curse for men and women in uniform. It was coined by Mort Walker (the Beetle Bailey guy) in the ’60s, and he used it to refer to the faked up cusses you’d see in comics. Grawlix is a bit of obscure comics terminology. I like “grawlix” as a swear, because it’s both clever and explained in the story. Legion of Superheroes comics look stupid. Here’s a page from the chapter in prog 1767, pictures and words by Karl Richardson and Dan Abnett, that shows what I mean:Īnd I mean, I hate fake cuss words. There’s a strip in there called Grey Area that did something cool. Maybe it’s because the squiggle is art, rather than text standing in for other text, and I read that differently. The squiggles and boxes feel more like bleeps than trying to have it both ways. I’ve always liked the Milestone squiggle, because they used it for… I don’t know, high cuss words? The really bad ones? It can be seen here in Dwayne McDuffie, Ivan Velez Jr., and Trevor von Eeden’s Blood Syndicate #1:Īnd Adam Warren’s black bars in Empowered, this one taken from Empowered Volume 6 ( Empowered Volume 7 is due out soon, get some): There are a couple of exceptions, of course. You’re a writer… figure out some way around it. ![]() Especially when they spell out the cusses in ascii characters like because… dude, who are you kidding? It’s having your cake and eating it, too. ASCII’d out or asterisked to death curses in comics drive me crazy. I care a lot about how my writing flows and looks, and that looks stupid in text. Any expletives I might care to use would be turned into - or f*** or ****** or whatever. And that’s weak.īasically, know your outlet and your audience. They want all of the benefits and none of the downsides. A wise man once said “They wanna live in the house but don’t want no grass to grow.” People want to get the impact of having a curse word in their text, but they don’t want to take responsibility for the coarseness. I mean ‘the n-word,’ literally.” It’s a great bit because it’s funny, first of all, but it’s funny because it’s all about taking responsibility for the stupid things you want to say. It’s about how he hates “the n-word.” He goes on to say, “Not ‘nigger,’ by the way. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.There’s a Louis CK bit that I like a lot. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior. Overusing our search engine with a very large number of searches in a very short amount of time. ![]() Using a badly configured (or badly written) browser add-on for blocking content.Running a "scraper" or "downloader" program that either does not identify itself or uses fake headers to elude detection.Using a script or add-on that scans GameFAQs for box and screen images (such as an emulator front-end), while overloading our search engine.There is no official GameFAQs app, and we do not support nor have any contact with the makers of these unofficial apps. Continued use of these apps may cause your IP to be blocked indefinitely. ![]() This triggers our anti-spambot measures, which are designed to stop automated systems from flooding the site with traffic.
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