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Books by Peter Tarkulich

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A Little Culture

on April 3, 2014
Chapter: Meet the Parents
Characters: Berann, Crystal, Fawn, Mike
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Discussion (11) ¬

  1. patjade
    patjade
    April 3, 2014, 00:43 | # | Reply

    Careful Fawn. He might demand a demonstration.

  2. Jarin
    Jarin
    April 3, 2014, 01:44 | # | Reply

    To be fair… haughty nature aside, the man has a point. You’re living in a whole new world, boy. You’ve got 15+ years of culture studies to catch up on.

  3. Jalathas
    Jalathas
    April 3, 2014, 11:35 | # | Reply

    I don’t know, I feel like his “culture” is coming down to the same sort of thing as old-world European “etiquette”. These are the things that are beneath real people, the servants do those things for us.

  4. Andy4Hire
    Andy4Hire
    April 3, 2014, 14:45 | # | Reply

    Several years ago I dated a woman of another ethnic background who was a US-born daughter of immigrants. Her older sister had married a white man, and her parents were not altogether keen on the idea that their other daughter was now dating one as well. My girlfriend coached me a bit on what to say and how to act when I met her parents, and I was prepared for our interactions to be polite but strained and stiff. But there were some subtle clues in the ways they acted toward me–and some less subtle clues in some things they said to their daughter afterwards, out of my hearing–that they were much less reluctant to support their daughter’s choices and much more willing to give me a chance than she and I had expected.

    My point in telling this story is that what we’ve seen so far of Mike’s interactions with Crystal’s parents rings very, very true for me. Crystal’s father’s line in the third panel, as well as his first-panel line in this strip, suggest that, despite his skepticism and reluctance, he’s more open to the idea of this human dating his daughter than we might otherwise expect–and more open than a similar character in the hands of a lesser writer might be. (His mother is, too, but we’ve seen less of her and she comes off as a bit less intimidating.) Well done, Pete, and thanks for telling this story.

  5. keith
    keith
    April 3, 2014, 15:12 | # | Reply

    *sigh* Berann, you’re making it hard for me to like you

  6. Ninkybug
    Ninkybug
    April 3, 2014, 20:10 | # | Reply

    Too late, Mike.

  7. smash
    smash
    April 3, 2014, 20:30 | # | Reply

    Hoo-Boy! Time to get jiggy

  8. Ninkybug
    Ninkybug
    April 4, 2014, 15:34 | # | Reply

    You still never colored the beginning pages.

    • Pete
      Pete
      April 4, 2014, 17:12 | # | Reply

      Are you talking about the early strips? It was my decision to leave those in black and white for archival purposes. However, the strips that appear in the first Bardsworth book are colored for the print version. I hope to have a new Bardsworth store up soon so people can purchase that again, but I haven’t had time to set the store up.

      • smash
        smash
        April 7, 2014, 21:28 | # | Reply

        i love the red heart in the strips were mike meets fawn. I think that the strip contains a certain charm that can’t be contained by the full color strips.

  9. Marscaleb
    Marscaleb
    December 8, 2014, 18:28 | # | Reply

    I just realized that all of the servants are half-elves…

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