It’s Tuesday, come back tomorrow for Issue 11. Man is it weird to be so close to done with Vol. I, this is what parents must feel like right before their child graduates high school and is off to college, or maybe I’m overselling it. Any who, tomorrow brings the man of It Exists one step closer to Eakran, or the other way around, and maybe he’ll learn the origins of his own magic. Wes continues the origin story of his romance with Valeria. The One-Shot flashes forward with Rebel Max in the 21st and Half Century, a future complete with a decimated human population surviving in domed forts; but don’t worry, disfuctional government is still very much in place. Emma creates a new work, Stone Hand meets his match, and the present day Rebel Max pits the nihilism he learned when writing Doomsday Bank against the lessons he learns while researching Ladoga’s own Reverend Dr. Lloyd Wright of the Pewter St Baptist Church. It’s gonna be a good issue, you should definitely come back tomorrow.
I’m sure you’ve all heard about the controversies with the NFL by now and it got me thinking; does it matter if the star player is a woman or child beater if they put points on the board? I always think that athletes are held to a ridiculous standard (see the NCAA’s amateur athlete rules that make it sacrilege for a player to be paid while the NCAA rakes in money hand over fist), and I generally hold the view that a population should be wary of making role models of the people on TV or other media because you’re just asking for disappointment. But, when it come to domestic abuse and any other crime really, any organization that takes public funds should be above reproach when it comes to disciplining members of that organization that violate those laws; and I know its a double standard, but its especially true for the most visible members of that organization. I don’t pay taxes so that millionaire wide receivers and quarterbacks can beat women senseless and whip their kids until they have open wounds. And I don’t know why any team would want their organization associated with that type of violence; I guess a win is that important. Even on the issue of disciplining children, where many black people raised in America will freely tell you that they received whippings from their parents growing up and don’t view it as any sort of abuse, I have to say its wrong and anyone who is that brutal with their child has issues that need to be professionally examined. Take a look at this and decide for yourself http://nesn.com/2014/09/cris-carter-charles-barkley-give-very-different-takes-on-adrian-peterson-video/.
Personally, I think a parent should have better ways of teaching their kids the difference between right and wrong instead of perpetuating the failures of their parents, but Cris Carter made a lot of sense to me, you may not feel the same. I don’t think it’s too much to ask that a football player be a good husband and father, I don’t think its even putting them on a pedastal because its not like I’m saying every football player has to be a father and husband; if you know you’re not good at it, don’t get married and don’t have kids. Our society should demand that grown men who make decisions to get married and have kids be a positive force in their families.
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