I haven’t been reading it in years, but even back then there were multiple gay/lesbian main characters. The subject of ai civil rights (obvious minority allegory) was a somewhat frequent topic. I vaguely remember there being a couple pages dedicated to how the human/machine war never happened because a couple researchers decided not to be dicks to their freshly spawned ai and instead treated it with compassion and empathy.
the comic was always woke, we just didn’t have a monosyllabic word for it back then.
At the start it was pretty hetero and white, IIRC. Dora might always have been bisexual, but it’s easier to ignore if it’s an informed trait rather than something that’s actually visible. But I think the big giveaway that it was never going to go where rightwingers would want it is the way the main character interacted with these people.
It became too “woke” compared to its early days (IDK why people who complain about that kind of thing ever read it, it never catered to rightwingers).
I haven’t been reading it in years, but even back then there were multiple gay/lesbian main characters. The subject of ai civil rights (obvious minority allegory) was a somewhat frequent topic. I vaguely remember there being a couple pages dedicated to how the human/machine war never happened because a couple researchers decided not to be dicks to their freshly spawned ai and instead treated it with compassion and empathy.
the comic was always woke, we just didn’t have a monosyllabic word for it back then.
At the start it was pretty hetero and white, IIRC. Dora might always have been bisexual, but it’s easier to ignore if it’s an informed trait rather than something that’s actually visible. But I think the big giveaway that it was never going to go where rightwingers would want it is the way the main character interacted with these people.