So it was the puke... ;-;

poor coop you'd think he be a happier person

With all his repression? The damage is done :/

Very true...

Why would you think that?

Didn't suffer much abuse I assume? Abuse just fucks you up forever, it warps your morals and even when you know its wrong to feel such a way, you instinctively do so anyways. It stays with you.

In my case for example, because of the constant absence of my parents due to work (I don't blame them for it, they needed to work so its not really abuse but it did carry some psychological damage nonetheless) I often over think things and if someone goes quiet or disappears I just freak out thinking I did something wrong or I upset them in some way, I also beat myself up really badly over it. I know its stupid to think this way but its literally rooted to the fact I had absent parents.

So imagine Cooper's situation for a moment. He had a drunkard father (which I also do, its also why I vehemently am opposed to all drugs, including alcohol) who also constantly belittled and abused him emotionally by being just the world's biggest asshole. Now Cooper has a horrible inferiority complex, a great fear of coming out and being gay which is obvious he is, but repressed due to his father's homophobic abuse, and the only source of positive reinforcement he got from the jerk was when he himself was a total asshole, so he can't help being a huge prick as well. In spite it not being who he is. He has this enormous wall of crap over who he really is thanks entirely to abuse, and that shit ain't easy to knock down.

This was in response to the original post.

That’s pretty freaky to see as a kid. To be the one to find him dead. I can’t imagine poor cooper

yes for a kind to find a dead body of a parent of loved one even if it was a bad relationship would be torn and damaged after that

I see you're enjoying this strip too - it's quite a trip!

I agree so we are getting a 360 view into what made cooper how he is. I kinda gained little respect for for coop but he should have learned to break
the abuse chains

Eh unfortunately that's just not easy. You'd need ridiculous mental and emotional strength to do that on your own which we've seen he simply doesn't have. In fact, most don't. He'll likely need either outside help or a tipping point that will cause him to snap, which at this point is what I assume will happen in the story.

that is a good point time will tell how the backstory plays into vol 2 of the main story

Poor Coop! Its so sad to have a parent, that doesn't wanna support his educational means.

agreed

Oh that's bad.
Accidental is really bad

Owch...

dude that's terrible. i thought it was something else.
but looking at the condition of the house he lived in at the time
i can see why it was OD

.... this may be my sadistic side showing itself, but I have a feeling Coop may share the same fate as his father... I hope not but for some strange reason, that's the vibe I'm getting.

Possible but improbable. He hasn’t crawled into a bottle yet, once that happens then yes, odds greatly increase. Also, he’s not trying to numb his pain with excessive suppressant usage. So far he’s just sleeping on his problems/issues/confusions.

He IS however, on Cannabis. Remmember Andy’s sex scene with his boss?

What does that have to do with anything, though? Smoking pot to take the edge off and taking pills and drinking excessively are two wildly different things.

I think they just wanted to point out that coop is not using zero drugs.

Shit! You're right! I know somebody who OD'd on the Devil's Lettuce, he injected 4 whole weeds into his left arm. Poor Johnny, the police took him in for indecent exposure (Miss Mary Jane made him take his clothes off), and he started convulsing in the jail cell. There was feces everywhere; he got such a bad case of the munchies that he ate the local McDonald's entire stock. When it all came out his internal organs, they just collapsed under the stress.

RIP, Johnny. Jesus loves you, even though you were a dirty, pot-smoking, devil-worshiping atheist.

This made me snort lol

To all the people who miss this joke, weed ain't gonna kill shit unless someone's putting something that isn't weed on it xD

Damned kids and their jazz cabbage.

how much anti-marijuana stigma have you endured to be set off like that by someone simply implying that using cannabis can be symptomatic of the same problems that using any other drug can (emphasis on -can-; not implying that using drugs is always a symptom of personal problems)?

XD omg. I love you. Thank you for this comment. 4 WHOLE WEEDS!

OD... Holy shit... That's... Just fucking crazy...

T.T Holy shit...

Holy hell this story... This is an AMAZING comic, I'm so glad I got to meet you at FC and got to know about this stunning work! Thanks again for the artwork and I'll sure as hell be following this comic now! :D

Aww thanks! See you next time for sure! ^^

Apple ale? Sounds...aweful! Lol! Drowning in your own vomit, yap...that will do it. That’s how Bon Scott of AC/DC and Jimmy Hendrix died.

I love apple ale!

I never tried it let alone ever heard of it and I live in the land of Booze! (Alaska lol!). I’ve tried cherry, apricot, lime, orange, pumpkin, watermelon and even smoked trout...I don’t recommend the smoked trout, the taste is beyond awful and your burps will make you want to vomit.

Crispen does a very good hard cider, but their pear cider is better.

https://www.reddsapple.com/av

apple ale is tasty.

Well dogs do eat their own vomit...
Aside from that this is some heavy stuff

Damn.

Fuck.

What a way to go I suppose. I'd feel more remorse if I didn't hate drinking myself. I know how Cooper feels, minus the abuse. Mine was just absent and now is a massive asshole, but he continues to be a drunkard still. I also just didn't drink, like, at all, once I realized how much it would make me like him. Even casually.

That'd @#$% ya up alright..

Maybe i have a weird relationship with death that his given me a somewhat unpopular view of toxic people: when people make your life a hell, i don't care if they birthed you or raised you or are technically blood, the removal of a toxic person from your life is a reason to celebrate. does that make me cynical? yes. does the same apply for cooper and is he better off without his father? also yes.

true. i have a very nihilistic view of death, so closure and proving something to dead people isn't on my emotional radar, although i recognize that's very atypical

Damn. That hits closer to home than I would like.

As dark as that is, I doubt Coopers dads story could’ve ended any other way. All things considered, I feel like Cooper wound up better than he could have.

Lots of sympathy for this doggo

i knew it haha

Well shit, now I feel for the dude.

Hey, I may be a psychopath, but I'm not a total psychopath.

Nope, wait, I'm a sociopath.

I know how much Death can suck, trust me, I've lost a good amount of friends and family within the last year. It's important to grieve in the moment, it's good to just take a day off and grieve for the one/s you've lost. Grieving in the moment will make it easier to look back at it in the future.

This reminds me of what happened to me when my aunt passed back in 2013. I did the same going into anti-social mode and then I slowly had to make my way back into being social. I <3 that you can really express that kind of damage so well in your work.

What a way to go, then again it is pretty common for someone to die choking on their own stomach contents while incapacitated... Hence why they need to be in the recovery position...

Very sad, poor Coop, despite having a dead-beat dad he still had feelings for him for that to cause some serious mental trauma :( It can scar you for life...

Excellent story writing!

Yay! It's HOT bartender, Gary!

Abit Real,yeah?

Apple ale? Oh, man after my own heart~

This story is so feel inducing!!!! Actually one of the best comics ever written and drawn! You sir, are amazing

So, I assume Cooper also stopped hanging out with Andy after his father's death? But why would he do that? º.º
And, how long has it been exactly since the events from previous page?

This is an awesome comic, can't wait to see next page! <3

Really a good job Jackaloo :D

Damn coopers sexy when he’s older too!

What a way to go for a drunkard