Any more and someone will accidentally create a meta-black hole.
Maybe it’s just me, but I don’t find a comic about miscarriage turned into a meme funny.
You really need to (a) have followed the comic fifteen years ago when it was relevant or (b) seen the HBomberGuy recap video to understand it.
But the TL;DR; of the original joke is that the webcomic was this incel tier whiny gamer wall-of-text throw away web comic. But it managed to produce a singular momentary deeply moving piece of real art.
Imagine flipping through Ben Garrison comics for five years and then - literally right after a panel of Joe Biden firing a giant turd labeled TAX HIKES into AOC’s mouth, Garrison decides to produce a fully rendered pointelist abstract on par with Starry Night. Or catching Charlie Kirk doing this hypnotic interpretive dance evoking the pain experienced by a young girl falling out of love with her first boyfriend. Or Bill Maher cutting from some panel rant about millennials to do Moonlight Sonata.
It was such an incredible jarring shift in tone and quality, and one that vanished as quickly as it appeared. It wasn’t based on any kind of real life event, just a moment of deep personal drama the author felt the need to explore in an otherwise totally superficial piece of navel gazing bullshit.
In some sense, it was self commentary. The idea of a better piece of art, dead before it was even born. Known but not seen or heard or felt, saving in the soul.
One word to describe what could have been.
Loss.
Everything that came after is just jokes referencing the absurd unanticipated masterpiece.
Imagine flipping through Ben Garrison comics for five years and then - literally right after a panel of Joe Biden firing a giant turd labeled TAX HIKES into AOC’s mouth, Garrison decides to produce a fully rendered pointelist abstract on par with Starry Night.
Not sure if this is a reference or not, but check out Garrison’s cubism abstract paintings.
It’s also funny to me that the author was such a smug-ass type and now all anyone remembers of his formerly super popular webcomic is the very poorly done miscarriage drama.
I also remember that time he made a racist joke and tried to awkwardly edit it out, though
all anyone remembers of his formerly super popular webcomic is the very poorly done miscarriage drama
I mean, I consider that comic the unintentional high point of his career. He had a following, but was always sorta mid-tier. His technique was decent but never great and I don’t think he ever brought into the professional industry.
But Loss was a genuine powerful piece of work. If he’s going to be remembered for anything, it should be that.
no, I don’t think he did. he just realized childrearing was going to be a drag on the comic and he needed a way to deal with the “problem”
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That new Windows logo is wack
Seen this comic before, but this is first time I saw that it was loss.
