I’m not getting it, does he check to see of he’s dreaming because he directed him to a competitor? And then is polite because of it?
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.
I also wondered, so thanks for explaining it.
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
Yup, it’s kinda the inverse of the usual shtick for the comic, where he attacks people doing things “he” thinks are socially unacceptable.
Yep
Out of all the dudes that are nearly a 100 I think I would like to hang out with Everett the most.
The comic started in 1905, so he’s actually 119!
Good lord, I wonder if the character is public domain now?
He is.
“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:
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Publication Date: Since “The Outbursts of Everett True” was first published in 1905, it falls well before the 1924 cutoff.
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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.
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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.
/u/randomaccount43543, are you ChatGPT?
😝 Nah I’m real, I just copy pasted that from chatgpt
If Everett True were still running, there’d be one where he beats someone up for quoting ChatGPT
That’s still possible since he’s public domain
Don’t do shit like that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Outbursts_of_Everett_True
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.
Thanks, gpt.
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That would make him older than the universe and not by a little.
119! = 55745857612076058813234317117419771556272886109483581752463927935846946310374691578057284710599874844234646982443450754604453404911734348832487342619913750049708004343808000000000000000000000000000
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That’s really old! Wolfram says it’s: 5.57458576 x 10^196 years old!
https://d.lib.msu.edu/gnn/1562
Whole book of him here.
I feel like some folks are getting the wrong idea about our lovable rageaholic with these recent strips…
I think I’m just about out of peaceful ones, lol
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.
I certainly did. I clicked the archive link above and he’s a jerk.
Yeah!
Ok.
I’m lost now. Somebody, please, explain.
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?
That, plus it’s quite a subversion, as every single other Everett True comic ends with him absolutely pulverising someone because he pissed him off.
Maybe the intent is victim blaming: the people in the other strips wouldn’t’ve been pulverised if they’d just been nicer people…
You got it.
Based and Everett, Washington, USA pilled
Everett a real one.
You must’ve spent a while filtering Mr. True’s compendium for his reasonable takes, you’d be a good “spin doctor”.
He’s not aways wrong. He does beat a dude for using too small a horse on too big a load. I always liked that one.
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.
Could you provide a link, please? 🙂 I tried Googling but can’t find it.
Haha, can’t you see that he’s just a calm, compassionate man who would never hurt a fly!
He even defends women from lecherous men! What a guy!
![Mr. True goes grocery shopping [Outbursts of Everett True, 1926]](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/35a7f215-d052-4265-85e2-5226fa4b966d.jpeg){kind=link}