Maybe I’m taking all this carpentry too seriously, but hey – how many comics are there out there that actually show someone repairing stuff like this? I’m always disappointed when artists cheat on these things, or convey that someone is capable at something by just having another character comment that they are good, instead of actually showing that they are good.<\/p>\n
Anyway, I’m kind of looking forward to having more speech bubbles on the next page, to cover up that wooden paneling …<\/p>\n
It seems I can’t draw at all anymore, and the second panel has a rather strange composition, but I’m not going to whine about that.<\/p>\n
* * *<\/p>\n
I’ve been following the efforts of the Gaza Aid Fleets over the years. Protesting against the strict embargo that the Israeli government has enforced on Gaza by bringing “forbidden” supplies like medicine, modular homes and cement to Gaza on ships is a sweet idea (and incidentally relates a little bit to the story in Driftwood<\/em>).<\/p>\n So this morning I woke up to the rather shocking news that the IDF navy has killed at least 10 people on the Gaza Aid Fleet during a raid carried out in international waters. At least 30 people have been injured. Several IDF soldiers were also injured.<\/p>\n So far it is not at all clear how exactly it happened, although Israeli politicians and their right-wing fans abroad are already quick to present the most favourable and still somewhat plausible, though probably not quite true, scenarios in the media. The IDF has been jamming all transmission from the Gaza Aid Fleet, and while the navy boats have embedded journalists with them, they are not allowed to report anything before returning to shore – and what they will report then might not be entirely objective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Maybe I’m taking all this carpentry too seriously, but hey – how many comics are there out there that actually show someone repairing stuff like this? I’m always disappointed when artists cheat on these things, or convey that someone is capable at something by just having another character comment that they are good, instead of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-driftwood-chapter-8","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=920"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2107,"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920\/revisions\/2107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}