• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    The first two panels show the female character pretentiously telling an adult male

    With the implication that it’s a lie, and the truth is in the fourth panel, yes.

    You referred to the comic AND it’s readers

    If you’re sympathizing with the artist, you’re buying into this dystopian fantasy of how the artist’s burned out friend “really feels”, yes.

    But this is coming from inside the artist’s brain.

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      1 day ago

      With the implication that it’s a lie, and the truth is in the fourth panel, yes.

      “Dystopian fantasy”? It’s a god damn internet comic not a polemical essay on the ethical superiority of antinatalism. It ain’t that deep, bro.