Keeping it “real”
Herb & Jamaal, 7/15/04
I’m almost certainly not the person to turn to for cultural authenticity, but do you ever get the feeling that some African-American-themed comic strips are actually written by 75-year-old white guys?
This strip really caught my eye in this regard. There’s really no better way to casually deploy a hip slang word that all the kids are using than by putting quote marks around it.
Herb & Jamaal certainly isn’t the worst offender in this category, though. I think every instance of the word rap in Curtis is surrounded by quote marks and followed by the word junk.
McDermott
January 27th, 2005 at 11:12 am
Say, is this cop with the huge eyebrows (I hope that’s what they are) a lift of “Crunchy,” the old white cop in “Jump Start?”
Mary Brandt
July 13th, 2005 at 11:19 pm
The eyes are just black. Black as the darkest pits within the heart of Satan. Blacker than the charred depths of a firebomb’s remains.
…And he’s a cabbie.
uncle lumpy
July 12th, 2006 at 1:01 am
Oh, if only there were some convenient way to mock the inappropriate use of quotation marks in comics! A symbol of some kind, perhaps . . . .
Maybe someday.
Jives
July 13th, 2006 at 9:22 am
Lumpy is right. We need a strong female icon to viciously airquote her way into our hearts.
She should probably wear maroon.
Galactic Emperor Chennux
March 4th, 2007 at 6:41 am
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END TRANSMISSION!