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I think there’s a few elements to it. The biggest part of it is that this comic artist had never done comics in this tone and the artist was already getting memed pretty often for generally “not that funny” jokes.
When this came out, it gave everyone whiplash because, well, who the fuck decided to make a comic about their wife’s miscarriage? I would get it to have a plain text media post or similar, but that was an odd step to take. IMO, that’s not something I’d casually drop in your otherwise innocuous comic strip.
Then the internet did its thing and the rest is history.
Ah. So
Are we seriously penalizing an author for the first time he gets serious about something and reaches out with feelings? What kind of "mama is it time to build the wall?" kind of 'men-bad' persecution is this? How DARE he show a moment's emotional development in his writing?!? It can ONLY be selfish and exploitative because #kneejerk.
We can be better, people.
It's legacy is that it's more accepted now. I broadly agree though. I still get annoyed when I think of that turbo cunt Fahey from Kotaku calling it "miscarriage of comic publishing". What an unbelievable fucking cunt, considering kotaku is basically incredibly unfunny and unentertaining