dupe

filler 62

Added 2019-03-13 06:35:34 +0000 UTC

i started this comic february 17th. at this point, just glad to have it done. it might or might not be the last folie a dupe strip i draw while i'm 24 (small joke strip with juno i started in january that i might finish), but definitely the last one with dupe in that regard... the amount of back-handed compliments that ended up in this one were kinda ridiculous. i even cut out one part where dupe said, "you're the best friend i've ever had. not a GOOD friend, by any means, but the best i've had, perhaps the friend i've earned. so i will give you this once: i think that you are stuck between two people who feel their livelihoods threatened by giving you an inch of control. you can only run from one of these people. yet neither of them, i believe, truly knows your limits as i do. i have never killed you, gray. i will gladly follow you on the path to hell, if you so choose, though."

what i said to my wife while working on this: "i got an idea for a story from working on that comic: it's like a horror thriller story, but all the characters are stand-ins for your interests and parts of your identity, and the monster picking them off one by one is depression."

ALSO: this comic was very frank about abuse. i dunno how to feel about that. i know i can't refer to it under a shroud of symbolism forever, but it was a little uncomfortable to not change the matter-of-factness and detachment that i usually approach it with mentally. i learned to be very clinical or numb to deal with it and it doesn't make a compelling case for the way it affects me emotionally, but whatever. not every comic will be perfect.