[mburbank]

I'm not sure whnat I'm going to do quite yet. Usually I'm not so bothered, but they really didn't keep much of my stuff beyond the conept, the illustration and the angry lobster line. It's not something I'd want a potential client to see my byline on.

My biggest problem with it is their link to the urban dictionary. When I first reasd the line about Simon saying he wouldn't give her a "Houdini" and then doing it anyway, I thought it was funny, because I guessed that meant sucker punching her in the stomach. But they have a hot link to the urban dictionary which offers various graphic deffinitions of unpleasant sexual practices.

Now you all know I don't think anything is over the line in comedy, so it's not that I'm shocked or offended.

But the graphic image of Simon having tansgressive sex with a thirteen year old girl just isn't very funny to me. Humor is subjective and all, but it really isn't the kind of joke I'd ever write, and I rely on people who might one day hire me looking for stuff of mine on the internets. I wouldn't hire a guy who wrote that joke. I would totally disrust their sense of humor.

I'm thinking I may ask them to change the by line to "Cracked Staff" and if they don't ant to pay me, okay. The problem though is, I can't afford to piss these guys off.

IT A ETHICALISTIC CONUNDRAMUM!!!