”Incidentally, that girl is my property and your theft of her would get you in trouble should I report it to the authorities. Which I will not, because Gor is a harsh, cruel world and a man who does not defend his property does not deserve to keep it.  Which I did not, so I do not. Incidentally, I am now standing here talking to myself.”

Tarl Cabot is the main protagonist of John Norman's Gor novels. When not making wooden BDSM dialogue with slave girls, he has an odd habit of breaking the narrative in mid-action (usually with the word ”incidentally”) to go into lengthy academic lectures. Gorean names don't sound quite this silly, though.

I scrapped the strip because Cabot is a pretty obscure character, so most readers wouldn't get the reference. Calling it ’BtB of Gor’ would have made it somewhat more accessible but the reader would still need to know about Cabot and his monologues.

Incidentally, his first word balloon ends with a Manowar reference (”Dire Death, a disease contracted through venereal contact with wimps and posers”) but the last words disappeared in the cut.

The Dark and Hairy Annals of Birger Barbaren