I sympathize with Selina’s cause, but not with Selina herself. This entire thing has been about her. How oppressed she is, how performatively she can suffer, how her white middle-class suburbanite ass is somehow in sympathy with people she’s never met. Maybe she reminds me of the kids who I knew back in high school who were always fired up for some Noble Cause…as long as it didn’t involve any sacrifice on their part. Junior Clueless White Liberals, I suppose.
I think the reason these new strips are coming across as preachy for some is because, in the space between iterations of this strip, somehow, things have only gotten WORSE on the front of children having the freedom to express their views, opinions, and identities. Turn on the news and you’ll hear about some new attack on kids’ ability to learn or talk about things like sex, sexuality, how those in power use said power, etc. Take a moment to look out the window, guys.
Imma have to agree with the Jayster on this one here, JB. Lately your storylines do have leaned a bit too heavily on the preachy side. Although I’ll admit it’s refreshing seeing Selina be given some much needed depth and less one-dimensional characterization.
@Tarotsu – Fair argument; my biggest hope is that she’ll meet up with Joel again so we can see if the two are on good graces (or will be).
Though if I’m understanding your comment correctly, I think Selina only appeared twice in the original continuity from what I can remember, which is why I felt the need make how she grew out of her Sinead faze my first point.
TheJayster49: I agree with your points but Selina seemed to be a more one-note character in the original continuity, letting O’Connor define her character up until her pivotal final arc in which IIRC she’s never seen again. This new continuity could better flesh out her character.
I should reread the original storyline, or one of them, to see how much this has improved. Selina can be used for better stories than “Joel’s strange date scene.” Jocelyn gives some good advice for Selina, in her own way.
OK, another day where JB is proving me wrong. Some nice low-level mayhem though.
While I thought this was a good storyline, I will not lie when I say I much prefer the original storyline for… several reasons actually:
– The original storyline had Selina realize she was blindly following Sinead and vowed to stop letting her influence her life, which I thought was a stronger message.
– Joel was helping Selina instead of Jocelyn, which brought some level of closure between the two after their disastrous date in the 1990 strips.
– This storyline was yet another “kids vs adults” scenario and I felt its message about free speech was a little too heavy-handed.
I sympathize with Selina’s cause, but not with Selina herself. This entire thing has been about her. How oppressed she is, how performatively she can suffer, how her white middle-class suburbanite ass is somehow in sympathy with people she’s never met. Maybe she reminds me of the kids who I knew back in high school who were always fired up for some Noble Cause…as long as it didn’t involve any sacrifice on their part. Junior Clueless White Liberals, I suppose.
Told ya you should have bought some solvent too. She’ll probably be known as Red Selina from now on. Oh boy, that would piss her off. 😂
I think the reason these new strips are coming across as preachy for some is because, in the space between iterations of this strip, somehow, things have only gotten WORSE on the front of children having the freedom to express their views, opinions, and identities. Turn on the news and you’ll hear about some new attack on kids’ ability to learn or talk about things like sex, sexuality, how those in power use said power, etc. Take a moment to look out the window, guys.
Imma have to agree with the Jayster on this one here, JB. Lately your storylines do have leaned a bit too heavily on the preachy side. Although I’ll admit it’s refreshing seeing Selina be given some much needed depth and less one-dimensional characterization.
@Tarotsu – Fair argument; my biggest hope is that she’ll meet up with Joel again so we can see if the two are on good graces (or will be).
Though if I’m understanding your comment correctly, I think Selina only appeared twice in the original continuity from what I can remember, which is why I felt the need make how she grew out of her Sinead faze my first point.
TheJayster49: I agree with your points but Selina seemed to be a more one-note character in the original continuity, letting O’Connor define her character up until her pivotal final arc in which IIRC she’s never seen again. This new continuity could better flesh out her character.
I should reread the original storyline, or one of them, to see how much this has improved. Selina can be used for better stories than “Joel’s strange date scene.” Jocelyn gives some good advice for Selina, in her own way.
OK, another day where JB is proving me wrong. Some nice low-level mayhem though.
Gotta say, I found that to be a nice little arc. Like how Selina and Jocelyn bonded a bit.
While I thought this was a good storyline, I will not lie when I say I much prefer the original storyline for… several reasons actually:
– The original storyline had Selina realize she was blindly following Sinead and vowed to stop letting her influence her life, which I thought was a stronger message.
– Joel was helping Selina instead of Jocelyn, which brought some level of closure between the two after their disastrous date in the 1990 strips.
– This storyline was yet another “kids vs adults” scenario and I felt its message about free speech was a little too heavy-handed.