This was a lot of fun to read

not sure what I read but it was cool :)

I am as confused as birb...who still doesn't know wtf happened either

Nice

I just sort of feel a sick uncomfortable feeling deep in my body. In a good way - or an appreciative one, in any case.

And here you really really get into a great rhythm-- it builds to its quiet climax damn well. There are a bunch of really small details of panel setups that I really like too (like the top-row of the shaving page being sort of off-set, getting the sort of "putting it into place" feeling of the action-- only to have the message be a demerit for appearance).

Interesting how the framing's a lot more closed in and closed off on this act of the story-- the repetitions making the quotidian really tense.

You're often at your strongest when you get to the parts where you sneak the pathos and empathy into a cynical comedy-- again, like Chaplin.

cool, kinda' sad but kinda' uplifting

I’m sorry but the whole,comic was kind of depressing

Thanks!

So that was the intent?

To depress you? I mean, the major theme of the comic was alienation so in a way yes.

Poor guy has always been kind of bored, especially after high school. Each day is like the last, nothing special ever happens, his life is one of just getting by, and his only dream is to be able to do something of consequence and interest. In work and life, most of his moves are prescribed for him, many seemingly arbitrarily. He does one act of rebellion just to shake it up when getting his food and then is taken away to touch a button for some reason. He gets reprimanded for untidy appearance even though he was in the middle of grooming when he was obliged to run and touch the terminal. He gets dinged again and again so just fakes it with a photo so he can get by. At least he's privately allowed to hate his job, though. Upon coming home, he's regarded as a hero for some reason even though he just swept, shat, and slept for an indeterminable amount of time. He doesn't really feel he earned it, and his job certainly didn't give him anything really to do. You have to wonder why he was sent up there in the first place.

It's a fitting representation of modern life for sure. It's depressing, but I like the honesty of it. All around us in this world, we're propagandized to believe things are great, made to feel like malcontents and misfits for thinking something is awry, for even acknowledging what most everyone knows deep down. It's refreshing to have someone say, "Fuck that!"