Finn's confrontation with Gil in "Guy Talk": Is Finn trying for "tough love" here, or is he just being a bastard?

You can draw your own conclusions, but I pesonally went at it from the angle that at least a third of the conversation was unnecessarily malicious. That doesn't mean he can't be (or indeed, isn't) a decent guy, but you have to remember that everyone has their trouble spots, and I have yet to meet a person who can be decent to absolutely everyone 24/7. It's also my sad little dream to have characters that are relatable while still being realistic .

. . Which involves them occasionally acting like assholes and holding beliefs that not everyone else ascribes to.

Through-and-through "nice" characters are frankly rather boring, which is why there aren't many in the strip. More.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.