What's the most valuable lesson you've learned in life, and how has it impacted your journey so far?
Last Updated: 22.06.2025 01:27
Ironically, Wertham focused on stories about crime, singling out Batman and Robin for its gay subtext and Dick Tracy for its violence.
Dick! I heard about the lay-off. What's a square-jaw crime fighter doing these days to bring in the bling?
In order to answer this I came up with a little story that goes like this …
Marijuana makes Jesus cry!
In 1954 complete bastard and censorship campaigner Fredric Wertham published a book for the stated goal of creating a moral panic around comic book's alleged impact on juvenile delinquency. Much like the House Committee on Un-American Activities' disastrous impact on the film industry, the Comics Code Authority (obey, puny humans) put many hardworking comic book characters out of work all because of one poorly written book called …
Just you, me, in a vat of lime jello, pulling hair, calling each other names …
Why won't my mom let me come home if I'm homeless?
I hear you're a stunt-double now for Fred in Scooby-Doo.
But Tess! I mean Betty! I mean Veronica! (I can never remember who is who) which ever one you are, I love you!
After you lather me up with that strawberry hand lotion.
Make Nazis afraid again!
And I ended up moonlighting in Japanese porn, but the less said about that the better.
Let's do what we always do, lay around half-naked while men make terrible jokes at our expense.
Before there was MAGA there was … the Comics Code Authority
Torchy thinks: Maybe I could play a gangster's moll since apparently smoking is still seen as wholesome and American.
Only zombies dig to rock and roll, daddy-O!
Torchy, we're unemployed … And no one is hiring scantily-clad wastrels these days.
Remember, kids, masturbation will make you see the devil everywhere!
And then working as Betty and Veronica's body doubles ...
Illum autem fuga doloremque est quod delectus id.
Shameless vixen! Trollop!
Tess' boyfriend, Ed, now works as a Peter Lorre impersonator.
Speaking of which, poor Cleo Coco has ended up appearing in anti-vice pamphlets.
Perhaps now we can explore what being a “gal pal” really means.
Of all the layoffs, Torchy Todd and her gal pal, Tess Parker, were hit the hardest.
¡Explotando Dick por todos lados!
Sed quia omnis delectus ad aliquam.
Two letters of transit signed by General De Gaulle … Stimpy, you eediot!
At least until the peyote kicks in ...
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Times might be tough … But at least there's one thing we all agree on.
Yes, Tess, crime doesn't pay but apparently Rated-G horror does.
I've also been making ends meet ... By appearing in Tijuana splatter comics as Evil Gringo #2.
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“Your boyfriend is a total perv, mommy.”
Sex! Lingerie! Knock knock jokes!
Every day is a good day to punch a Nazi! I mean MAGA! I mean the Comics Code Authority! (I can never remember who is who)
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Gadzooks! It's Torchy Todd slumming it in Yugoslavian science fiction! The shame!