So basically what happens in this motherfuckin’ comic is…my favorite straw-man gets his own episode.
Summer of Comics is winding down. I’ve got to go out of town at the end of week and then there’s maybe a few days of next week and that’s it. I’ll try to do as many as I can once school starts but it’s not easy. Also first fun pack shipping out at the end of the month. If you want in on it, sign up for the fun club!
Nice work mate. I really liked this one.
This was a good one. Thanks.
Wow. touching. You are really good at what you do
Your comics are amazing. I never know what I’m going to feel like in the end when I start reading your comics, how you find a way to express all these things baffles me.
… aside from the generic congratulatory words i could utter, aside from the anaesthesia that my brain seems to be swimming in .. i don;t even know what to say.. this is amazing.. i absolutely love your work..
This was very pretty but it’s slightly disturbing to me because it feels like an excuse for the behavior in the top panels. I dunno, I mean.. most people have their problems, sure. But I feel that the really worthwhile ones take it as their burden, instead of throwing it around on those around them. If you just want some help and relief, say so. Don’t grab people who may be struggling with their own loads.
But then again, maybe we all need people we can trust, who will take your shit when you can’t handle it on your own anymore, who will sit through your monologues and pat you on the back when you’re piss-shit-vomiting pain – pain that you would be able to handle if you were a better person, but don’t because shit you’re no saint, just an ordinary human. And if you don’t have these people, maybe your dam just isn’t strong enough to hold the tides within, and just how much blame should you take for that?
Man your comics are depressing sometimes. But I love them.
The second half is supposed to be refutation of the first half, not a justification. In the second half, everything Burly said in the first half is revealed to be false. That was my intention anyway. With his first statement, Burly must fulfill his role as a straw man by showing he is more than just a straw man. But maybe I didn’t pull it off. Thanks for the awesome comments, JenC! Your points are well taken. I hope my comics are actually uplifting but I guess it’s all a matter of where you’re at when you read them, whether they bring you up or take you down. Thank you!
I was planning to wait until I’d made it all the way through the archives before commenting, but I have to say, the fact that JenC could read something so different from what you intended in this comic is actually pretty cool. Cause, you know, life is complicated, and it’s nice when art reflects that. I definitely got what you were going for with the refutation, but it could also be — well, not an excuse, but maybe a partial explanation.
The harshness in panel nine feels more like nightmare than reality to me. Or maybe I’ve just been luckier than Burl in that regard, that no one’s ever said that to me. Can’t argue with the harsh reality of panel ten though.
This is great.