Full body text of the newspaper clipping:
“Local slacker Colin Thompson, 29, died last night in an explosion that police are describing as “like the Fourth of July, if it could be caused a real rager of a fuck-party.” A&W root beer, Oreo cookies, and silly string were found heavily spread about the scene.
“It’s not yet known what caused the blast, though forensics experts believe the prostitutes “probably had it goin’ on.”
<3 Mike
“Burn” –Alkaline Trio
Love the strip!
Hey, why’s your PW ad space only allow ads rated “safe for children”?
Glad you like the strip Sam, and good question! It might seem a little hypocritical, given how our comic is not appropriate for children itself, but we try to keep our ads clean all the same. The reason isn’t vulgarity per se, it’s more about … exploitative vulgarity, if that makes sense?
About a year ago we had a problem where we were just beset by ads using sex to sell, enough that it was actually a hassle to keep banning them one-by-one. Sexualized advertising is actually a huge pet-peeve of mine (I like sex and don’t particularly enjoy its enslavement to lazy marketing, it enrages me on multiple levels) and it’s also a bit demeaning/objectifying of women, which also sucks!
This is sort of a binary, oversimplified explanation, when my actually stance on sexualized advertising is probably a little more gray (there is good sexy advertising, and there is bad, etc.), but that’s the basic reason why we have “kid-safe” ads only on our site. We got real tired of ads like “LOL U LIKE TITTIES? CUM READ SUPERTITS 99, THE STORY OF THE BABE WITH TEH SUPER TITTERS!” Ads like that are just lame, on all possible levels.