This is sort of a companion piece to We Love Trees.
So my friend Kathy linked to my Avatar comic on the Livejournal community deadbrowalking, and lots of people came to have a look, and I followed the referring links back to the community and had a read.
Now I’d been thinking that I’d kind of handwaved away the cultural appropriation problems with the film in my post about it – just went ‘hey, look at this article on io9′ instead of addressing it. And linked from that community was lots of useful and interesting discussion of that, and of cultural appropriation in general. And this strip is sort of me thinking out loud about it.
The Japanese song is the theme from Hayao Miyazaki’s brilliant film My Neighbour Totoro. The lyrics mean, roughly, “Let’s go for a walk! I’m feeling lively!”
Gosh, quite a dark one this. By the way “I didn’t understand that. But it was really spiritual” is what sometimes goes through my mind when reading Wasted Epiphanies
It doesn’t diminish my enjoyment of it though 
My Neighbour Totoro is the last Ghibli film I watched with the kids, and their favourite so far. Had planned to try Princess Mononoke next but I’ve been told that one’s best left till they’re a bit older, so any suggestons welcome – the only others we’ve seen are Spirited Away and Kiki’s Delivery Service.
Speaking of your Avatar post, my happypants dubstepping Na’vi arrived in the post yesterday attached to your rather nice “One Word for Everything” collection (wahoo, just amazing!). Its a good thing our conversation wasn’t about the representation of our inherent inhumanity depicted in “The Road”, that would have been one grim sketch on the inside back cover indeed.
Looking forward to many more aliens, monsters, words and polar bears in the months to come!
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