There’s a disgusting demonstration of hypergamy for you….. M’rel was nothing but good to her and was on her side the whole time even when the rest of the martians were literally enslaving her, even going so far as to white knight for her and all but throw his life away against the super-assassin, but she’s more interested in the alpha male who enslaved her and literally used her as a biological experiment test subject, because he has the highest social standing. It’s depressing how accurately you depicted a female character.
Sorry for taking so long to reply. You make a valid point regarding M’rel; he is not treated well, and you are not the first reader to make that observation. But although he is one of the nicer Martians Ginger meets, remember that originally he too wanted to claim her as a spoil of war. She did not “trade up”, so to speak, for more dominant male; she was seized by him and did her darndest to get away from him. Oh, yeah, and occasionally smooching him (as well perhaps as doing other things which we will not mention), but that was because she was having imperfect control of her hormones and not because she was a self-serving little gold-digger. And in the end, she does dump Admiral Coeurl to go home.
Much as I like M’rel, his interest in Ginger never really develops past the hormonal stage. I tried to show Admiral Coeurl developing a gradual respect for Ginger as he got to know her better and as he became more and more disillusioned with the Martian Old One’s plans for Earth. That was why he gives her the control device in this chapter; by this symbolic gesture I intended to show that he was relinquishing his claim on her; and the squeeze she gives him in response is her acknowledgement of this. Granted, her casual brush-off of M’rel in the same panel is a bit cruel and gratuitous. I wanted to give M’rel one more appearance in the story and in retrospect I should have done it better. Put it down to the writer going for a cheap laugh.
Dear Kurt,
Just few lines to tell you how much I enjoy your work. I just saw it on fb.
I like to draw and have my characters and story, but I am not a cartoonist. I am quite slow on that.
Nevertheless, I really enjoy your approach to character design and how the story develops. It has been a great help to read you (and will keep doing it) and learn from you. Thanks and greetings,
Raúl Cragg
There’s a disgusting demonstration of hypergamy for you….. M’rel was nothing but good to her and was on her side the whole time even when the rest of the martians were literally enslaving her, even going so far as to white knight for her and all but throw his life away against the super-assassin, but she’s more interested in the alpha male who enslaved her and literally used her as a biological experiment test subject, because he has the highest social standing. It’s depressing how accurately you depicted a female character.
Sorry for taking so long to reply. You make a valid point regarding M’rel; he is not treated well, and you are not the first reader to make that observation. But although he is one of the nicer Martians Ginger meets, remember that originally he too wanted to claim her as a spoil of war. She did not “trade up”, so to speak, for more dominant male; she was seized by him and did her darndest to get away from him. Oh, yeah, and occasionally smooching him (as well perhaps as doing other things which we will not mention), but that was because she was having imperfect control of her hormones and not because she was a self-serving little gold-digger. And in the end, she does dump Admiral Coeurl to go home.
Much as I like M’rel, his interest in Ginger never really develops past the hormonal stage. I tried to show Admiral Coeurl developing a gradual respect for Ginger as he got to know her better and as he became more and more disillusioned with the Martian Old One’s plans for Earth. That was why he gives her the control device in this chapter; by this symbolic gesture I intended to show that he was relinquishing his claim on her; and the squeeze she gives him in response is her acknowledgement of this. Granted, her casual brush-off of M’rel in the same panel is a bit cruel and gratuitous. I wanted to give M’rel one more appearance in the story and in retrospect I should have done it better. Put it down to the writer going for a cheap laugh.
Dear Kurt,
Just few lines to tell you how much I enjoy your work. I just saw it on fb.
I like to draw and have my characters and story, but I am not a cartoonist. I am quite slow on that.
Nevertheless, I really enjoy your approach to character design and how the story develops. It has been a great help to read you (and will keep doing it) and learn from you. Thanks and greetings,
Raúl Cragg
I like your comic very much.It has a late 1940s vibe to it.And I also liked the war of the worlds hints.A good read all around.