Posted

May 6th 2007

(Cross posting a journal entry I made after seeing this information in someones journal.....)

In Light of Virginia Tech - And morons who are scared of their own shadows!! Ever heard of the web-comics MacHall.com and now ThreePanelSoul.com? Okay.... Here is Matt (the writer) saying what he's dealing with..:
http://matthewandian.livejournal.com/7295.html?thread=25727#t25727
"I'm told I was facing a possible charge of a "terroristic threat""

Here is the link with the verified story.. (apparently she cleared with this Matt fellow..)
http://jinwicked.livejournal.com/156836.html
Copied in case it's taken down....

"Web Comics = Terrorism
My friend Matt Boyd, writer for the completed web comic MacHall, and now Three Panel Soul, was recently fired from his job where he was working under a government contract. He was overheard by a fearful coworker while discussing the purchase of a rifle for paper target practice, around the same time as the VT shootings. The coworker reported this and he was promptly fired, without even the opportunity to clean out his desk.

Three Panel Soul began a short series of comics about the events here.

Some of his former coworkers saw these comics and called them in as a threat, and later Matt was visited by four police detectives at his home. The coworkers also claimed the woman pictured in comic #21 resembled one of them, apparently unaware that Matt does not create the art for the strip. The comics were called a borderline terroristic threat.
This is a very disturbing situation, and something we all should be concerned about."

And here are the related comic panels...
http://www.threepanelsoul.com/comics/020.gif
http://www.threepanelsoul.com/comics/021.gif
http://www.threepanelsoul.com/comics/022.gif