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Holy mackerel! That was the longest Zoo Laffs story yet. That’s all the Onion Puss you get for now. If you liked the conclusion, or the whole Ghost of a Chance storyline, please don’t forget to “like” it. That’ll help me decide whether to come back at some future date and show you how Onion Puss deals with Holly’s disturbingly backwards worldview.
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Next week, I’m planning to post the Ghost of a Chance pinup gallery. So far, I’ve received nine pinups. It’d be great if I ended up with twelve or more, to top the Kablooey!!! gallery, so please CHIP IN! Read all about it under the comic from two weeks ago, and please try to have it to me by — here’s the new hard deadline — Saturday, July 7th, at noon Pacific time. I sure would appreciate your contribution. I wonder if I’m going to get a lot less drawings of Holly, now that people know she’s . . . a RACIST?! What the –?! That’s just crazy.
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Oh, and Jakey the Jerk, #1 now has THREE nice reviews online! A Comic Book Therapy review (I posted about that one last week), a Mars Will Send No More review, and a Comics Bulletin review (scroll down a bit).
Oh man she’s a bigot, what a deal breaker!
But hey what the hell is a jungle bunny?
Is that some alabamy slang?
Yeah really old-fashioned slur for black people.
I find this ending cutely twisted, especially considering she’s attracted to something that isn’t even human.
I known a person who was a bigot to blacks and Hispanics and no one else. I think being a bigot is illogical so don’t go looking in peoples bigotry.
Why are the hot ones always racist vegephiliacs?
It’s always SOMETHING!
Hey, it’s not too late to walk back and throw yourself out the window.
Sure! It’s only a 2 1/2 hour walk.
This ending feels strangely anticlimactic. May need to reread the whole story from the beginning. But then again, Zoo Laffs endings *tend* to be anticlimactic and it is suspected they are so *on purpose*. I expected the ghost lady to make a reappearance. The artwork is – as always – great!
Didn’t understand the “wetbacks and jungle bunnies” comment until explained above. Good to learn that Onion Puss has *some* amount of good sense in him. Has his nose regrown or was that just a hallucination? If the former, he must have mad regenerative powers!
Like so many cartoon characters, he has the power to be magically restored to normal in the next scene.
love it love it good one
Well that was unexpected! LOL!
What are setbacks? Pardon my lack of knowledge in racial slurs
*wetbacks, damn autocorrect
@Kisame
A ‘wetback’ is a term for Mexicans, usually in regards to illegal immigrant Mexicans.
I’m a little amused by those slurs, because given her physical assets and appearance, I assumed that she was most likely black. Unless she’s REALLY confused or blind, .I’d have to say otherwise on her ethnicity.
Holly is a bodacious blonde. But she might have an African-American grandparent she doesn’t know about.
My missus is racist against onions. I’ve tried to work on it, but there’s just no end to her anti-onion bigotry.
That’s a pretty fucked up punchline. I had to read it twice just to make sure I wasn’t asleep. And I hate this girl, there’s really nothing to work on there.
It feels like cold water just got launched in my face.
>> nothing to work on there.
Well, I don’t want to defend Holly too much, now that we’ve learned about how she judges people on the color of their skin! But, taking Onion Puss’s view for a moment — It’s clearly apparent that she has great natural treasures. And she really LIKES Onion Puss, which in itself, is a rare and wonderful trait in a girl. And if you don’t like her attitude that Onion Puss needs fixing, well, you gotta admit … He DOES need fixing!
>> It feels like cold water just got launched in my face.
Sorry for the shock. I shocked myself, too, when I decided to actually do it.
But, that’s what it feels like when you meet one of these people in real life. I try to take those cold water moments from life and put them in comics. If I ever do a follow up story, so that this episode is less like an ending and more like a cliffhanger, maybe it won’t feel so harsh.
And in the far distance, the faint cries of the Wahmbulance could be heard over the still night air.
The idea is that Holly claimed that she could fix Onion Puss, and this big breasted, wide hipped blonde bombshell is imperfect herself, stated with the last line where Onion Puss says “We’d better work on that”. Which is a line she said a few pages ago about him.
If the internet spent half the time thinking that they do complaining it would be a miracle.
:OOO!!! HA! Totally didn’t expect that, hilarious!
A hell of a zinger to end on! Awesome story and the best Zoo Laughs!
Seems like that came out of left field. As in “This girl likes me… Something must be wrong with her.”
Somehow I’d have expected the slurs to come out of Onion Puss’s mouth, not Holly’s.
I’m glad to see you adhere to the rule of cartoon regeneration.
Onion Puss looks freaky with no scleras in panel 2. Less so in panel 6, but he kinda makes me think of an oniony Doug there. Interesting.
I love the last two drawings, but especially the final one.
An amusing reversal, but since no attractive, psychologically healthy person would consider Onion Puss as a mate, he’d better take what he can get. I could see an amusing series where they are a couple but constantly embarrass each other, and neither one realizes it.
As a Mexican, I wholly approve Holly revealing herself to be a racist. Yes, this is exactly how they tend to act — by saying dumb shit to other “white” folks, obviously not expecting a backlash. And nobody is whiter than an onion.
This could be a blessing in disguise for Puss. If he wants Holly to take him seriously, he needs to stand up to her and call her out when she commits an overtly evil act. At the very least, Holly would then know that her words matter to him and she needs to choose them carefully.
I really like these longer stories … surprisingly educational!
>> he needs to stand up to her and call her out
When (if) I get around to continuing this storyline, maybe he will!
Looks like she’s thick inside and out!
I feel the same way about flea markets.
Thanks so much for sticking with this ’til the end, everybody! See you next week.
I don’t see it as a backwards world view, because she certainly hasn’t done anything to actually make her a racist now has she? Words are words and all she did was use them to describe a group of people and it’s possible said description is accurate. There are absolutely Mexican Americans and then there are down right wetbacks. Just like how there are caucasians, crackers and wiggers. Labeling something isn’t anything new, we call grass grass and weeds weeds for a reason and that’s all I see her doing here right now.
And for the record, yes, I compared wetbacks to weeds.
I also know I’ll get some backlash for what I’ve said and I could sit here and try to explain exactly what I mean by what I said, but all I’d do is end up pissing people off instead of getting to understand what I was trying to say, so all I can say is piss off.
Fair enough. Die now, please.
Nope, and for the record, while I don’t really consider myself racist, I feel people have every right to be as racist as they want to as long as they don’t actually hurt anyone.
You hurt my brain by telegraphing this stupidity. Good luck practicing your open racism and see how far it gets you o’ great social retard of white justice!
Jenny, spoken like a true racist apologist. shut the holy fuck up.
Glad OP’s nose grows back so fast.
this comic is really sexual and it makes me uncomfortable a lot of times, yet, i still read this and i still like it! : )