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Post by neonmoon on May 25, 2021 1:31:11 GMT
Whoof. I’ve been following this comic and the art and story for over a decade and I have to say, while the page I’m linking makes it pretty obvious that “mentally ill father figures you can’t trust not to hurt you” has been a major theme for Tom from the beginning, the deterioration in the character’s mental state, art quality, and narrative emotional intelligence from this to this is one of the sadder things I’ve seen in long-running webcomics. Regression in more ways than one. Tom, if you're on these boards, I really wish you well with whatever demons you're working through in this comic, but for now, I think I'm also out. Even if this is a twist chapter and Annie's going to take her hands out of her pockets to reveal nails cutting into her palms like in Microstat 5 because she's been white-knuckling through this entire conversation, it's just gotten too brutal, I don't think I can handle another 5 years of this kind of slow burning character torture. |
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Post by rylfrazier on May 25, 2021 5:08:46 GMT
Whoof. I’ve been following this comic and the art and story for over a decade and I have to say, while the page I’m linking makes it pretty obvious that “mentally ill father figures you can’t trust not to hurt you” has been a major theme for Tom from the beginning, the deterioration in the character’s mental state, art quality, and narrative emotional intelligence from this to this is one of the sadder things I’ve seen in long-running webcomics. Regression in more ways than one. Tom, if you're on these boards, I really wish you well with whatever demons you're working through in this comic, but for now, I think I'm also out. Even if this is a twist chapter and Annie's going to take her hands out of her pockets to reveal nails cutting into her palms like in Microstat 5 because she's been white-knuckling through this entire conversation, it's just gotten too brutal, I don't think I can handle another 5 years of this kind of slow burning character torture. I'm with you, it's just so chilling to see the free spirited, joyful, loving, sweet, kind, open hearted Annie reduced to what she has become. |
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