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[–] [email protected] 52 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That stare as he pulls the lever is fantastic!

[–] samus12345 23 points 2 days ago
[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Dark comics can bring people up?

This analysis brought to you by several wrinkles in a brain

[–] samus12345 46 points 2 days ago (1 children)

When you're in a dark place seeing or hearing things that express what you're feeling can help.

[–] Godnroc 25 points 2 days ago

And it needs to be heavy enough to reach those that are that far down.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Thats was a really enjoyable little comic! Is there more of it or just this one?

[–] samus12345 32 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

It's eat, shit & die, but the site seems to be down. I had to access it through the Wayback Machine.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

Great find and a good rescue from the void!

[–] lost_tortie 20 points 2 days ago

This was really nice. Thank you for sharing 😺

[–] aoidenpa 13 points 2 days ago

This is amazing.

[–] DarkCloud 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

I don't get where do the "regular" balloon danglers come from... Do they just choose to go up with a balloon?

The balloons are stories right? Like it's a visual metaphor... But then does that mean people are only reading one story per person in the entire world?

How did people end up in the bog? Did they just let go of a story they didn't like? So are the danglers are people writing stories rather than reading them, and the danglers are the authors?

That makes sense.... A comic book author writing about an aggrandised version of themselves. That checks out from my experience hanging out with authors... But they don't give away or latch on to each others stories that I've seen, that doesn't seem common.

Where do the danglers come from again? Because the guy constructing the balloon wasn't dangling from it... Are the green people minions in some reading dimension?

I don't think I really get the metaphor. Maybe it's just not supposed to be examined. Lots of fiction collapses under examination.

[–] Moneo 32 points 2 days ago

The average uplifting story is only effective on people who are mostly doing OK mentally. Those types of people might see a depressing story and wonder why anyone would ever want to consume something so dark and depressing.

Someone who is depressed will not be able to relate to a typical uplifting story, it will seem unrealistic and naive. A depressing story is meeting them on their level. They will see that someone else understands how they feel and will feel less alone. A depressing story has a chance of affecting a depressed person a giving them hope in a way a regular story does not.

That is my interpretation of the comic.

Lots of fiction collapses under examination.

Yes, over analyzing every little detail and finding flaws in logic is a great way of completely missing the point the author is trying to get across. Your analysis of this comic comes across as borderline satire. There is absolutely no need to examine the physical logic of the comic past the point of "the balloons are metaphors for stories". There are plenty of ways to analyze and critique the comic, such as examining how well the balloons function as a metaphor, but trying to figure out the internal logic of the world is missing the point completely.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Normal stories float around with their handles at average goblin height, until a goblin decides to grab on. Then they go up. The goblins at the bottom are people who fell off the sky islands