21 Sept 2007: Acceptable risk

[Richard K Niner]

http://www.ozyandmillie.org/d/20070921.html

[mother nature's son]

Wow.... todays strip really speaks out.

On a side note, I really like Millie in panel 2. Its kind of a new look for her.

[Sage]

Ozy looks fuzzier in panel 3

Winter's coming on

[Tom Flapwell]

It's been surmised that Abe Lincoln wasn't popular in school. Maybe the hat has something to do with it. (Yes, there is a difference between a top hat and a stovepipe hat, but it's slight.)

[Bocaj Claw]

Social/political commentary? In Ozy and Millie? Unheard of!

[VenM2]

Ozy looks fuzzier in panel 3

Winter's coming on

He is fuzzier after getting touched by Jeremey !

[Llewthepoet]

'Zactly. I didn't except Ozy to say something like that.

[Mista_B]

Heh, what Ozy's missing though, is that unless the bully has a reason to stop, unless sometimes you *give* them a reason to stop, make them stop... if they have no reason to stop, they won't. Just accepting that is, well... it doesn't bode well for Ozy's future. Plus it looks like his hat got squished, heh, looking at the last panel.

[Doc Sigma]

Social/political commentary? In Ozy and Millie?

It's more likely than you think.

[dcsimpson]

Heh, what Ozy's missing though, is that unless the bully has a reason to stop, unless sometimes you *give* them a reason to stop, make them stop... if they have no reason to stop, they won't. Just accepting that is, well... it doesn't bode well for Ozy's future.

Oh, I don't know. I personally never physically fought back against the Jeremys of my own youth, and it didn't lead to a future of being walked on by people.

(I had two reasons. One, I'm a pacifist by nature. Two, I would have lost the fight, which would have had the opposite of the effect I wanted.)

That's the thing. With very few exceptions, after school, bullies don't beat you up for your lunch money. It becomes much more psychological. And I'm much better equipped to fend them off on that turf (and much more capable of ignoring them if I choose).

So, yeah, I really do disagree with that old saw about how the only good way to deal with bullies is to punch back.

[Bocaj Claw]

Social/political commentary? In Ozy and Millie?

It's more likely than you think.

I disbelieve you sir.

[Doc Sigma]

Social/political commentary? In Ozy and Millie?

It's more likely than you think.

I disbelieve you sir.

Hey I didn't believe it either until I saw the banner ad.

[Tom Flapwell]

Can anyone point me to the original ad that keeps getting spoofed?

[klimt]

accepting unnecessary risk is foolishness.


and ozy missed the point. its not about being invisible, its about minimizing your ability to be targeted. in whatever method is appropriate for the situation. the general purpose solution is to simply have enough, or a big enough, friend(s) that bullies wont even try.

[Derrick Fish]

While the strip was certainly thought provoking, I was most impressed by the first and last panels dynamic framing. That initial establishing shot is REALLY excellent. There is SO much information in one little panel, from the rear of the exiting bus to the texture of the clearly overgrown dirt road they're walking down. REALLY great, subtle work.

PLUS, they break with the standard, "side-scrolling" format comic strips (my own being NO exception) far too easily fall into the habit of using.