¡Cuidado! ¡El Español!

Checking GoComics this morning, I found a new item in the editorial cartoons section: Lalo Alcaraz en Español.

Lalo Alcaraz (en inglés) has been a GoComics feature for years; GoComics appears to have populated the version en español with a bunch of his old cartoons in anticipation of bona fide Spanish cartoonage yet to come. The supposedly current page today sports a cartoon from May, 2020 with no dialogue in any language.

Predictably, the mere existence of a Lalo Alcaraz en Español page, even one without a word of Spanish below the title, prompted some troglodyte to complain. "If I wanted comics in Spanish I’d move to South of the border, is this trying to force us to learn ? be politically correct. leave the comics alone. English is the language of the USA" whines somebody with the English skills of a three-year-old.

I wonder if wmchere lives in any part of the United States where Spanish was spoken well before the English-speakers arrived and made no effort to learn Spanish — or any of the indigenous languages that predated it.

Or if wmchere's immigrant forebears went to church, shopped at stores, and settled in neighborhoods where they could converse all day in Italian, Polish, Swedish, German, or whatever language the Wmchere Family hailed from.

And for Pedro's sake, if reading something in Spanish is going to ruin your whole day, don't click on the "Lalo Alcaraz en Español" link! ¡Ay caramba!