[0492] Yuna Has The Atom Bomb
└ posted on Thursday, 20 June 2013, by Novil
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- Blackboard: Bullying Prevention Day
- Instructor: For example, what would you, … Yuna, do if one of your classmates viciously teased you again and again?
- Yuna: Oh, that’s easy.
- Yuna: I’d take a pencil out of my pencil case, …
- Instructor: To write something to your teacher?
- Yuna: … make sure that it’s really sharp, …
- Yuna: … and ram it right into her eye at full tilt!
- Instructor: . . .
- Yuna: Mom always says the pencil is mightier than the knife because they can’t outlaw bringing pencils to school.
![[0492] Yuna Has The Atom Bomb](/comics/2013-06-20-0492-yuna-has-the-atom-bomb.png "[0492] Yuna Has The Atom Bomb")
Okay, what is with this comic and its characters being psychopaths?
@ Honnza:
Would like to remind you that the teacher stated “if someone bullied you repeatedly” – the black eyes and broken bones would come the first time she was bullied. The pencil in the eye might be the second or third.
I just love how happy Yuna looks the whole time.
The martial artist in me shudders at this comic. Yuna’s parents really need to teach her about escalation of violence, and situation based response. Straight to the lethal response is bad juju
@ Mizu:
Indeed, I accidentally stabbed myself in the palm of my hand years ago and I still have the dot left from where part of the lead broke off…
I BET she wasn’t bullied ever after.
@ Bartimaeus:
Why so serious, Yuna? Given, that the bully is repeatedly attacking Yuna, then the bully was in past beaten repeatedly by Yuna. Hard. And if he (after all that hard beating) is still attacking her (as is the situation given by teacher), than yes – it is serious and need serious solution.
And, as we can see via the comparison to the previous arc with Ruth, it’s not the level of violence that sets people off, it’s how it’s delivered.
There is no better way to fight a bully than not getting bullied in the first place. Intimidation certainly is one method to accomplish that.
I hope Yuna isn’t allowed to see Stoker (is there any connection?).
A true warrior relies not on swords and shields for the whole world is their weapon.
I always did like weaponizing my pencil. Works better if its a mechanical pencil.
@ Nimz:
I want to see somebody TRY to bully Sandra.
I know of 2 people who would to exception to anybody bullying HER… Woo and Cloud. I wonder which would be worse.
@ Hfar:
anything in the hands of anybody with the will to use it can be a weapon.
for example; my mother decided to visit me one day without calling in advance. She walked straight thru the gate to my fence toward my door.
‘My’ dog (used to be hers, but he was given to me when she lost her ranch) came at her without bothering to recognize her. She laid him out with what she had in her hand and he hasn’t tried to bite her since.
What did she have? A loaf of bread.
@ Valkeiper2012:
The true art of being scary, though, is not announcing it.
@ Crestlinger:
It’ll cost her in potential friends, though…
Yuna is me. XD
(I often tell my sister and mom, that I’m relatively safe if I ever get jumped, because I carry so many pencils and pens with me, so I have sharp stabbing weapons all the time, in cases of danger. xD (The perks of being an artist?)
I was laughing a good couple of minutes because of this
@Mizu :O Have you gotten that checked? Lead poisoning can have very bad effects on health (although I suppose if after 15 years, nothing’s happened… still).
The teacher’s face in the last panel is hilarious XD
PFFFFHAHAHAHA THAT’S THE MOST ORIGINAL JOKE I’VE HEARD IN AGES!! And I’ve even made a similar point: Why can’t we bring plastic weapons like plastic axes to school for halloween if pencils and pens are easily more dangerous? XD
Just one problem Yuna: now that we have tablets and iphones, once schools reach a point where every class has them and such, they actually COULD outlaw bringing pencils to school. We’d all be writing with tablets and iphones. XD
I know I am not necessarily agreed with by all, but I get the biggest kick out of American webcomics using Japanese manga conventions, such as the blank eyes and the darkening of the face, and the ellipsis in the speech bubble, for Yuna’s “victim”….I don’t think it is bad at all to share some of these very apt things–lots of American comics are rather bland-looking when things happen, maybe a plewd or two flying off and that is it…I live for the day I see the “crossed veins” symbol (the one that looks a bit like this: # ) above or on the head of an angry or upset character in US comics…..^w^
Forgot to mention the ubiquitous anime “sweat drop” also present up there on the girl’s face…
*embarrassed* Just noticed that all the above is on the TEACHER’S face, not the victim’s–but all I said still stands…. >////<
wow went from 1-492 in 2 nights IM UP TO DATE
Hm.
I got stabbed in the forearm with a pencil 30-odd years ago. There’s STILL a blue mark where the last 1/4″ was left in my arm, but it finally started to fade a couple of years ago.
(I shan’t say exactly how I returned the pencil, but suffice it to say he was leaking more profusely than I was.)
And “Outlawing knives in school?” Pity, that. I got my first pocketknife for my fifth birthday, I have NOT been without a blade on my person ever since, save six weeks in Basic Training. All the schoolyard fights I was in or watched, I KNEW that there were a raft of blades handy – but they never came out… You could use a stick you picked up – a rock might get you labelled a whimp – but it was an unwritten rule: NO KNIVES. Period. Full Stop.
(As far as bullying, I’ve found it more effective to stuff the bully into his locker, close the door, and spin the dial. Even more fun if you can knock them out somehow first – so they WAKE UP already secured in their locker, wondering where they are and how they got there!)
Somehow, Yuna’s response comes as no surprise whatever. I wonder what Larissa would set on fire?
Improvised weapons are a method with great effectiveness. One School I studied with refered to them as T.O.Y.S. (Tools Of Your Surroundings) we had to learn to instantly evaluate the items in a room and rank them in terms of effectiveness. (Table lamps are nice since the broken bulb gives a sharp end and the cord can be used in a variety of “interesting” ways. – Well you get the idea!)
Sambo wrote:
Pencils no longer contain lead, haven’t for quite some time. The black is graphite.
why does everyone say “the lead in the pencil”?
lead isn’t used in pencils anymore, graphite is used.
Write something to the teacher?! Most schools the teacher will claim that since they didn’t see it happening that they can’t do something. Or some stupid tripe about how ‘ it takes two to fight ‘ As someone that was repeatedly bullied and beat up in elementary and junior hich school ( till I had my growth spurt and hit 6’ tall, odd how it stopped then ) I can tell you that most schools really suck at doing anything about bullying, and are as likely to punish the victim as they are the actual antagonist.
That outta the way, loved Yunas response! Reminds me of my AP Comp Sci class coming up with a list of ways to seriously injure/kill someone with paperclips when they banned compasses at my high school ( cause one end was really sharp don’t ya know? )
oops another person already said it
In an ideal world, where you wouldn’t get punished with detention for it, this would be an effective method. I never went as far as doing that whenever I got picked on, I just kicked them……….. and then got detention…. because such is the school system
Woo(hoo)!Yuna declared itself.
Saddly last week a 9-year-old boy died because an 11-year-old kid pushed him and make him stick a pencil on his eye in a public school in Chile. Bullying is a very serious matter, what Yuna is doing is not the best.
I absolutely loved this strip. Especially following the whole Ruth story line.
Even wrote an article about the philosophy of it.
http://wp.me/p3yLXP-5U
Keep up the good work Oliver.
Someone tried to bully me once. I marked his shirt with ballpoint pen. He didn’t understand why that was effective revenge until the next day when his mother saw it.
Thats a lot of blue!
Huh. I thought there was a song reference in the title. Must have just been a Fluke.
Frrrrt! 😀
@ mechwarrior:
Remember, we already had several other instances of violence: Woo’s treatment by his original owner, kill a bat and get 17 dollars, kick a logger in between the legs, etc.
JKelley wrote:
The bully’s hair.
Then she would write a note to the teacher telling her what she had just done.
@ illeatyourself:
Ever had a tablet broken over your head?
…I think I want some assurance that girl is still alive as of the fourth panel.
When i was in second grade the solution to my being beaten up after school was for the school to do nothing. i proceded to take a pen and stab said bully in the arm during school, the schools solution was to make me walk 2 and half blocks out of the way to my house and let the bully walk the straight shot home we lived accros from eachother the bully then proceded on the second day to stalked me and slamed my head into an driveway and run off leaving me unconsious with a head injury till the person who lived there showed up and helped me get home i don’t quite remember what happend after that but what i do know is the fear of god was put into the bully by someone and he stopped. the school was worse then worthless in its responses to bullying.
@ Who, me?:
because then you have to sharpen it before you can use it again.
@ Honnza:
Nope, you got it covered.
So the pen is mightier than the sword. It just has a shorter reach.
@ Neospector:
Yeah, that’s kind of what he’s referring to. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAc5Pr52_XM
Yuna’s poor, poor teacher. . . She’ll probably go through psychiatric treatment for the next four years.
@ Jumtrev:
Or, the rest of her life. . . . . .
That poor teacher.
I have to say, responding to verbal violence by escalating to physical violence isn’t a good idea, and as liberal as Ye Thuza has raised her kids to be, I think she would still consider going through with something like this way over the line.
When I was in school one kid used to try to pick on me, but I always just ignored him. At least until he tried to push me around physically, at which point I just pushed back hard. To this day I’m not sure why he thought he could get away with physically bullying someone bigger than him.