>>114668684Tat spent a long time doing strips where Monique got pelted with rotten fruits during her shows, because she was a stand-in for Tat himself. That's why his comic tried to portray Monique as being in the right here, and Slick in the wrong for giving him the advice his more moderate readers gave him. They were trying to persuade Tat to use allegory and metaphor so that his views would be palatable and make people think, instead of using every comic as a soap box to shit-talk his readers.
He told them to fuck off.
And then, somewhere down the line, Monique suddenly started getting worshiped again. She'd get up on stage, call her audience a bunch rapists, and they throw her roses, and I think Tat had to eventually start doing that because if Monique never found an audience by antagonizing her audience, then it'd prove Slick right.
Tat himself, in the real world, hasn't really found his audience either. There are a small number of fringe radicals who align with him, but you can see just from the comments on his new, "people who only agree with me" forum that his current fans are a little nutty and a little childish. His old fans were assholes, but they were pretentious assholes. The new ones are just mentally warped and seem out of touch.
