Just picture the alternate timeline we could be in if THIS was the original, and loss was the edit…
Harambee would have lived.
And Hitler & Trump’s mothers would’ve gotten abortions.
I wonder how the original artist feels about his wife’s miscarriage becoming a meme
I do feel bad for him, and especially the ex-girlfriend having the miscarriage in college (it was years back before he drew the comic and not his wife according to wikipedia with his own blog post as source).
And while a do feel bad about the event, I’m not a fan of him putting this trauma event of his and her life in the public as part of a gaming/gag webcomic.
I agree with you that it’s a morally conplex situation and this was likely not the right move, but at the same time… This is what art is. Art isn’t just cheap laughs as memes. Some of my favorite comics are the deeply personal ones that convey pain, depression, suffering, even loss.
However i will add that Loss never really landed for me. I thought it was odd and the art style didn’t do it any favors.Absolutely. I agree. I’m not against expressing pain and personal struggle in art. Some of my favorite art pieces are exacly that and it feels extremely personal. It’s exacly as you say: the problem of loss is not that it expresses pain, suffering, etc, but that it feels weird in the sudden tone shift, style and with the funny gaming webcomic context. Not that a tone shift can never work, but i wouldn’t say it did in this case.
I’m guessing part of fhe meme being successfull is because a lot of people felt that way. It’s definitely art, but art comes with the ivitation of being up for interpretation and criticism.
In a way, the meme turned that four panel comic into a whole seperate artpiece, one that is born from and does express the awkwardness in a way.
It was an ex and one he proclaimed to be toxic at that, so I’d be more concerned for the party that didn’t consent to have their story shared or turned into a meme.
Ok so I traveled back in time to test this. Inconvinced the cartoonist to change the strip to this and guess what? We beat climate change and world hunger.
Link the original?
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I II
II IIi
I’ve saved this photo to announce to my brother my son has been successfully born in January.
And if not then I’ll send Loss
.:|::.Is this gain
Is this gain?
Gainz 💪👶
Why does he seem disappointed in the last panel? Did he expect something else?
He missed the birth of his kid dude that would be sad
That’s fair, but he just looks annoyed.
Like “oh, that’s why you called me for? All this fuss about it for nothing important?”.
YOU COULDN’T HAVE HELD IT FOR 10 MINUTES LILAH?!
Stab, blood squirt
There, a typical CAD comic ending for you.
He expected a GBA with hands that would high five him.
“Aw, shit, the bills are coming.”
The pleasant ending I didn’t know I wanted
Been a while since ive seen this
why does she have dreamworks face?
Oh cool, now let’s do Loss 2 with a bad ending to this one.
Is that the one where she dies too?
Final panel: Earth explodes
Yes, Godzilla one
GANEZ!
