Or not.

The big news in sports this week is the NFL’s indefinite dismissal of Ray Rice, following publication of a video that showed Rice brutally beating his fianceé, Janay. Rice had previously received a two-week suspension related to this violence, but most people with a sense of justice or compassion considered this an inadequate response, to say the least. Only after the video appeared on TMZ did Roger Goodell et al. realize that a man beating a woman unconscious is a poor representative of the league. Rice’s dismissal is long overdue, and reflects a culture of tolerance of all sorts of violence against women, dogs or anyone who appears weak and vulnerable. Hence why Michael Sam, the first openly gay football player in the league, has had such a hard time getting on the field, despite a stellar collegiate record. Gayz are still considered “less than” properly male in the typical locker room mentality of the sport.

Disgusting, but not surprising. Not if you have been paying attention since high school. Thankfully more people now are less willing to let this shit slide.

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Two new pages have been published to Wanderlost. They are the final two pages of the final story of the webcomic, so that draws to a close a project that I have been working on for the last 12 odd years, off and on.

A lot of “off”, actually, which is why it took so long. To be fair to myself, I have been pretty busy: raising two kids, earned a master’s degree, drew another webcomic, became a librarian, and so on.

But it’s done. I am pretty relieved. Now I can focus on compiling the stories into a single volume and finding a way to publish it. Mostly like will use Kickstarter or GoFundMe. Stay tuned!

View it here or click the image below.

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