Greetings. Following months, I wonder through some comics if one of your target groups are lonely poor persons who have difficulty seeing the positive side of it and thus they go on bipolar optipes mood cycles.
Personally it tires me most of all those Cthullu comics. Come on what is this 100% for nerds storyline. Just replace it with your other balanced greatnesses.
Well, the *entire* history of the comic has been about bipolar moods, with random jokes thrown in as the exception rather than the rule. Heck, just a cursory look at the tag cloud shows “someone dies inside” as one of the most common tags. Even the Cthulhu storylines are about the innate inevitability of death, when you dig a little deeper. ;-)
I’ve never thought of him as s targetting bipolar/depressed people, but rather targetting people who want to laugh at depression to rob it of its power. This is less dark than reading between the lines of some other comic authors, whom I fear for because their unadmitted depression is sometimes frightening…
Nice point, it escaped me that in the same time he is actually making depression seem funny and ridicoulous senseless. Still the Cthulu storyline’s superficial side is to much specialised nerd-wow style, for general public. Any deeper message gets partially lost on it.
As always and forever: Fuck that guy!
Greetings. Following months, I wonder through some comics if one of your target groups are lonely poor persons who have difficulty seeing the positive side of it and thus they go on bipolar optipes mood cycles.
Personally it tires me most of all those Cthullu comics. Come on what is this 100% for nerds storyline. Just replace it with your other balanced greatnesses.
Well, the *entire* history of the comic has been about bipolar moods, with random jokes thrown in as the exception rather than the rule. Heck, just a cursory look at the tag cloud shows “someone dies inside” as one of the most common tags. Even the Cthulhu storylines are about the innate inevitability of death, when you dig a little deeper. ;-)
I’ve never thought of him as s targetting bipolar/depressed people, but rather targetting people who want to laugh at depression to rob it of its power. This is less dark than reading between the lines of some other comic authors, whom I fear for because their unadmitted depression is sometimes frightening…
Nice point, it escaped me that in the same time he is actually making depression seem funny and ridicoulous senseless. Still the Cthulu storyline’s superficial side is to much specialised nerd-wow style, for general public. Any deeper message gets partially lost on it.
There’s always Garfield or Dilbert for the “general public”.
Kristian makes great comics.