...although here in the USA, it is starting to.

Unfortunately, this is a highly appropriate topic for Webcomic Awareness Day.

Matt Boyd, of Mac Hall and Three Panel Soul was fired from his job working under government contract. A coworker overheard him discussing the purchase of target practice paper for rifle shooting, around the same time as the Virginia Tech shootings. Said coworker reported it, and they fired him on the spot without so much as the chance to clean out his desk or, apparently, the chance to explain himself.

So Matt chronicled his experience about it here.

It gets worse.

Some of his former coworkers found the comics, and called them in as a threat. 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.

The story is here.

Digg this!

I can't even get into how infuriating this is.