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 00:59
Tess' boyfriend, Ed, now works as a Peter Lorre impersonator.
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 …
But Tess! I mean Betty! I mean Veronica! (I can never remember who is who) which ever one you are, I love you!
Before there was MAGA there was … the Comics Code Authority
Of all the layoffs, Torchy Todd and her gal pal, Tess Parker, were hit the hardest.
Yes, Tess, crime doesn't pay but apparently Rated-G horror does.
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¡Explotando Dick por todos lados!
I've also been making ends meet ... By appearing in Tijuana splatter comics as Evil Gringo #2.
Ironically, Wertham focused on stories about crime, singling out Batman and Robin for its gay subtext and Dick Tracy for its violence.
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And then working as Betty and Veronica's body doubles ...
And I ended up moonlighting in Japanese porn, but the less said about that the better.
In order to answer this I came up with a little story that goes like this …
Times might be tough … But at least there's one thing we all agree on.
Let's do what we always do, lay around half-naked while men make terrible jokes at our expense.
I hear you're a stunt-double now for Fred in Scooby-Doo.
Necessitatibus ipsa sequi animi dolores molestiae.
Only zombies dig to rock and roll, daddy-O!
Two letters of transit signed by General De Gaulle … Stimpy, you eediot!
Torchy thinks: Maybe I could play a gangster's moll since apparently smoking is still seen as wholesome and American.
Should we consider deporting democrats to Canada?
Shameless vixen! Trollop!
“Your boyfriend is a total perv, mommy.”
Perhaps now we can explore what being a “gal pal” really means.
After you lather me up with that strawberry hand lotion.
Remember, kids, masturbation will make you see the devil everywhere!
Marijuana makes Jesus cry!
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)
At least until the peyote kicks in ...
Can I know a love story of a medical student?
Just you, me, in a vat of lime jello, pulling hair, calling each other names …
Speaking of which, poor Cleo Coco has ended up appearing in anti-vice pamphlets.
Gadzooks! It's Torchy Todd slumming it in Yugoslavian science fiction! The shame!
TEXT:
Dick! I heard about the lay-off. What's a square-jaw crime fighter doing these days to bring in the bling?
Make Nazis afraid again!
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Torchy, we're unemployed … And no one is hiring scantily-clad wastrels these days.