Comment by Randomgal@lemmy.ca on 16 July 2024

You’re taking it too literally. They don’t mean “if transformed from turtles to humans, those humans would have black skin.” What they are trying to say is that the turtles are coded as culturally black teenagers. The way they speak, act, their interaction with their social context and relationships, some phrases they use…

Imagine for a second you’re watching Naruto, but they just replaced the guy with a frog. He is no longer a human, but still would eat at same food, stil would use the same colloquialisms, would follow and respect (or break) the same social rules imposes by his Japanese/Asian background, etc. He’d still be Japanese, just in a frog body now.

“Human form” is a poor word choice, but what makes us human is not the way we look, it’s the culture we’re part of and how we relate to it.

Hello fellow Cyanide and Happiness fans!

About this community and how I post the comics… Many moons ago, I would ask my Dad to save the newspaper for me everyday so I could read my favorite comic strips. Of course these days you can read your favorite comics online instead of a newspaper, but I love the nostalgia of reading the daily comics. Anyway, one of my favorite current comics is Cyanide and Happiness and I will be posting the daily release from their website (https://explosm.net) and a an extra or two randoms.

Cyanide & Happiness (C&H) is a webcomic created by Rob DenBleyker, Kris Wilson, Dave McElfatrick and Matt Melvin. The comic has been running since 2005 and is published on the website explosm.net along with animated shorts in the same style. Matt Melvin left C&H in 2014, and several other people have contributed to the comic and to the animated shorts… Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyanide_%26_Happiness

Hope you enjoy and feel free to contribute to the community with art, media, cool stuff about the authors, tattoos, toys and anything else, as long it’s Cyanide and Happiness related!

Ps. Sub to all my comic strip communities…

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The Far Side !thefarside@sh.itjust.works https://lemmy.world /c/thefarside@sh.itjust.works

Fine print: All comics I post are freely available online. In no way am I claiming ownership, copyright or anything else. This is a not for profit community, we just want to enjoy our comics, thank you.

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