No, he isn’t always wrong, that’s why I mentioned the filtering part. More often than not the comic presents a reactionary, violent jerk or someone who says shitty things justified by “that’s how we all really feel but won’t say it out loud” kind of thing.
Does he value the honesty of the shopkeeper that much, that he then, instead of going to the competitors store, buys whole lot of the "wrong type" of peaches from the honest seller?
I'm really enjoying these. They show that he isn't just about beating anybody up but he actually has a code that he lives by. If he beats up everyone, he's just 1980s Heathcliff. By offering these counter examples, we see a much more complex person.
This is true, and there was a joking element to my comment, though I do think if you happen to start with these two, expectations will be mis-set in a very jarring way. For those folks, poor Everett is about to snap.
Yeah they would be the worst possible introduction to Mr True. It's like hearing Crazy Little Thing Called Love by Queen and expecting the rest of what they do to be Rockabilly.
He's not just being polite but he made the conscious decision that this store is the one he wants to support because they were willing to lose revenue in order to help the customer.
The phrasing of the third panel confused me too, until I realized he already got the peaches he wanted (if not the right brand), they're on the counter, and he's now ordering MORE
"The Outbursts of Everett True" is likely in the public domain. This comic strip was created by A.D. Condo and J.W. Raper, and it first appeared in 1905. Works published in the United States before 1924 are generally in the public domain.
Here are some key points to confirm its public domain status:
Publication Date: Since "The Outbursts of Everett True" was first published in 1905, it falls well before the 1924 cutoff.
Copyright Term: For works published before 1924, the original copyright term would have been 28 years, renewable for another 28 years, totaling a possible 56 years. Even if renewed, this would have expired by 1961.
Public Domain Confirmation: Typically, works published over 95 years ago are in the public domain unless there are specific reasons why their copyright might have been extended beyond the normal terms, which is uncommon for early 20th-century works.
Therefore, "The Outbursts of Everett True" should be in the public domain based on its original publication date.
If I could draw, I'd start the comic Outbursts of Evelyn True. She's Everett's granddaughter, and her very first appearance has her beat up grandad for deadnaming her. The comic would cover modern day annoyances in exactly the same way the old one covered the annoyances of that time. It would also be woke AF
The Outbursts of Everett True (originally titled A Chapter from the Career of Everett True) was an American two-panel newspaper comic strip created by A. D. Condo and J. W. Raper that ran from July 22, 1905[1][2] to January 13, 1927,[3] when Condo had to abandon it for health reasons.
Some of it was before 1924, and some after. The stuff after won't be tied to the starting date; copyright will be on each strip independently.
The title claims here that the strip shown was one of the last ones, from 1926, so I'd expect that it probably is not in the public domain.
![Mr. True goes grocery shopping [Outbursts of Everett True, 1926]](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/35a7f215-d052-4265-85e2-5226fa4b966d.jpeg){kind=link}
