An image from the comic book “Deadpool”. The title character adresses a shark on four legs with a knife in his mouth: “Blahaj, you are honor bound to protect trans kids. Can you handle that?” The shark replies: “Mrrrrr.”

  • squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
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    1 year ago

    Origin of the comic panel

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    The panel is from “Deadpool 2019/Vol 8 issue 8”. The shark’s actual name is Jeffrey and the original text only says “these kids”.

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      I appreciate it! I was gonna ask if this is real, and honestly, it’s close enough to make me happy! Haha. Of course we know Deadpool supports all LGBT rights, and all children.

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        Yeah, that was my initial reaction too. Such meta jokes would be 100% in line with what current Deadpool writers do, but I guess Blahaj was not such a trans icon yet when the comic came out originally.