Those of you who aren’t regular readers of the comments here may not be aware of A Voice for Pierre, the hilarious new webcomic by regular Man Boobz commenter Katz, inspired by Man Boobz trolls and dopey Boobz more generally. Here’s the first strip, about a poor paranoid MRA afraid to take his sons to Canada lest they be attacked and possibly killed by wild feminists. Naturally, it’s based on a TRUE STORY.
You can find more Pierre at the A Voice for Pierre website.
I love this! 😀
Whoa! Pierre’s very own article! Yay!
Yes! Pierre!
The inclusion of that hat even in his ‘doctor’ strip had me bowled over laughing about a week ago.
I read them all, thanks for the link David. I love the cat in the Happy New Year one. 🙂
I’ve added Pierre to my blogroll. 🙂
My favorite bit is the fuzzy hat on the cat in the New Year’s comic.
Oh, good idea Kitteh, I’ve plagarised your action. And seeing Katz’s avatar larger on the comic site, I now realise it is not the African Grey Parrot I always thought it was…I blame not wearing glasses while I’m at the computer!
LOL I’ve seen avatars all wrong too, but Chimera to African Grey Parrot is impressive!
Do you wear glasses for long sight or short sight? I wear ’em for short sight but find it’s much easier using the laptop without them.
I hope the doofs at AVfM see this. You know they’ll turn purple with the rage of not getting it.
Sad to say, with my age now past 40, I have graduated lenses. I think I am only something like -1.75 in both eyes, but now I have issues threading needles with thread, and crafting with dark coloured yarn at night. Yanking up the project close to my face doesn’t help much either, as I seem to have a narrow range of focus for small objects now.
Worsening eyesight and aching where I broke all my bones when I was younger are the two aspects of ageing I am not enjoying. If only I could stop seeing dust and cobwebs!
Pierre MacKenzie, will you marry me?
My vision is so bad that I’m not yet using bifocals, though I am thinking of getting contacts again, at which point I’ll prolly get some reading glasses.
Pierre is going onto my blogs blogroll list.
Could we add AVFP to the “antidotes to boobery” then?
I’ve got multifocals now too. Been wearing specs since I was fifteenish, for short sight, and didn’t need to change the script until a couple of years ago. After a bit of mucking about with ones that didn’t really work, I got the multis, which are much better.
I feel for you about the threading and craft! I used to do hand-sewing – really tiny stuff for 9cm tall historical figures – using size 10 needles, and had no trouble with it (mind you I’d have the things an inch from my nose, lol). But now, yeah, it’d be a lot more difficult, I can’t focus that close any more. The multis aren’t much good for that, it’s too uncomfortable looking through them, but fortunately the ordinary magnifying specs they sell at chemists are just the shot.
Aching bits, yup, me too! Not from broken bones, but from different leg lengths finally catching up with me. Got orthotics a year ago, big improvement, but my knees feel like they’re going to be chronically sore and I can’t kneel at all easily, which makes things tricky.
I have however long since learned to ignore dust and cobwebs. 😛
Wait, since when does Pierre have a surname?
lowquacks – seconding adding Pierre to Antidotes to Boobery!
Ok, now I can see the start of the scene:
Clairedammit: Pierre MacKenzie, will you marry me?
MRA guy listening in: Oh, my god! Don’t answer that! She’s a soul sucking succubus!
Just can’t work out how to fit in hypergamy yet …..
Perhaps Pierre having worked for the Canadian consulate in Sydney and the NSA and having been a doctor would bring on the hypergamy? (We’ll overlook him being all beta-ish working for Ikea.)
Kitteh, wow for your patience in producing clothes for little figures. Initially, I got lenses with no correction in the bottom part of the lens, but then I started getting headaches all the time on work days, but no headaches on weekends, which was the hint that it was my lens prescription that was wrong as I don’t wear glasses at home unless I’m going out or watching tv. A visit to my optometrist confirmed my suspicions and I got new lenses but kept the same glasses frames.
i would use contacts, but I have dry eye syndrome as well, which I wonder was due to being a vegetarian. I got that diagnosed about 3 years back by an opthamologist, after my eyes kept being sore and feeling gritty all the time. I’m on fish oil tablets to combat that, and banned from wearing contact lenses. The reason for the contact lens ban is that because I have so many issues producing the correct Omega-3(?) and have associated eyelid membrane issues, the opthamologist doesn’t want me manipulating my eyelids, even just to put in and take out contact lenses each day. /sigh I liked wearing contact lenses too.
When did we establish that the Canadian consulate was in Sydney, or did I miss something? I feel there’s so much Pierre I’m missing out on here.
The original MRA poster who phoned the Canadian consulate was from Oz.
Right, I’m off back to the original succubi text for inspiration.
@clairedammit – Yay, you used my idea!
@lowquacks – In the forum thread about Pierre, I suggested that his last name be MacKenzie because I worked out a while back that Pierre MacKenzie is the most Canadian possible name.
Loved them, but…
The MRA looks (exactly) like a villain from a t.v. show I watched.
He was too, I remember now! Must’ve just assumed the consulate was in Canada then, with the pine trees in the window and all. Haven’t really dealt with consulates ever so no real idea how they work.
Ooh, good point about the pine trees. Confused now.