Hey there. I'm aspiring comics writer/artist (you can look for my art thread in the traditional media section when I get an image scanner) and want to get a good load of practice before I actually put effort towards making my own comics. I'm going to be updating this thread with new entries very frequently, so I thought it best to create a mega-thread for them, instead clogging up the page and pushing other users threads down. I'd love some constructive criticism, and if you're an artist of any kind yourself, feel free to post a link to your stuff so I can return the favor!
Suicidalist
"A live body and a dead body contain the same number of particles. Structurally, there's no discernible difference. Life and Death are unquantifiable abstracts. Why should I be concerned?" - Doctor Manhattan
Suicidalists are the only scumbags on this planet who make any sense. We see the cycle of madness, and have turned heel on it. We don't slave to corporations, distributing the creeds of greed that help them grind the well-being of communities to their liking. We don't excuse our ignorance to this matter by basking in passing fancies: tossing ridiculous values at materalistic garbage, chasing shallow dreams to inflate our fragile egos, crafting sets of personae to gain equally artificial respect from other insecure pansies, or otherwise convincing ourselves of the ludicrous idea that affection is key to existence. This is what you disillusioned assholes have made Life, and Suicidalists have long stopped giving a **** about Life. We can see past the soluted bullshit because we do not carry the fear...The fear that drives you to file your soul inside a company's cabinet, to romanticize chains of events and the resulting interactions, to stupidly attach to the people within them...Suicidalists have long stopped giving a **** about Death.
Non-Suicidalists are convinced that life is an excellent adventure that all potential organisms should have the chance to grab by the balls and experience. A miracle, of sorts. Wrong. Upon arrival, every specimen is fed manufactured ideals and customs, some of which are rooted in the concepts of freedom, as ironic as THAT shit is. Once they've cluttered your guts with their nonsense, you're sent to hang your hopes on the line, fighting for your interpretation of what they've told you a 'lifestyle' should be, only realizing too late once you're crushed, fatigued, in-debt and half-dead that it was never about you or any sorry individual obtaining happiness, but about keeping this cycle of madness going until new cogs are ready to replace you, just as blind to the crud at the end of the rainbow as you were before you stepped in it.
But who better to aid you in this mock journey of enlightenment than your fellow man? They're just cogs in the machine too, so they're on your side, right? Yeah, ****ing right. The conveyor belt of bullshit we call society brews conflict as big as wars and as small as a girl's jealousy over her friend's new boy toy. The creatures next to you are as vile and shiesty as the one in the mirror, hungry for attention and praise, forever willing to spit on your way of life if it means shining their own, or simply disconnecting themselves from your circle once they're no longer entertained by your theatrics, your still-remaining fondness for them be damned. I'm reminded of how parents selfishly live their fantasy lives through their children, and of lovers who can't tell the difference between passion and puppet strings. Neither of these roles play out the way they're scripted to; parents silently resenting you for not transforming into an exaggerated version of themselves, only claiming to respect the 'you' that reality spat out because successful parenting is the final goal they haven't yet failed at, and they would rather die lying to themselves that they've succeeded; lovers allowing petty things such as finances and distance to come between them, running off to bathe in another person's filthy cum if the sweet-nothings sound good enough. Life isn't a bitch. It's a dead whore being gang-****ed in her icy cunt. Not that Suicidalists give a **** about Life, anyways.
And of Death? Death isn't shit. It's empty. The punchline to the joke that is Life. If anything, it is to be respected MORE than it's counterpart, because unlike Life, Death is honest. It doesn't showcase gourmet dinners while a musty bum climbs into a trash bin for scraps outside. It claims to close the curtain on this awful play, and that's exactly what the **** it does. People (non-suicidalists) who've been cocked about for so long cannot fathom this brutal honesty and opt to sink their rotten teeth into yet ANOTHER charade. They trick themselves to believe in 'legacies' and 'fate.' Helpless against Death, these terms tuck the lame ****s into the cycle of madness, for without them, the glaring facts that make Life the idiotic joint-venture it is are exposed. Once you're dead, you do not witness the fruits of the efforts media machines told you were necessary. None of the relationships you thought magical and destined to be amount to anything but a memory. The despicable pleasures and mild grievances you took part in were lost long ago. Any rippling effects you may have made while inside the cycle simply add to the hulking heap of shit this species will accumulate until extinction, and if that specific clump of dung didn't smell like you, it would smell like another being. Death isn't something to fear, or worship, or decorate with overrated achievements. It simply exists to remind you daydreaming shitheads of how much of a waste everything truly is. It's the forced, half-hearted laugh you'd give for a friend at the end of their bad joke. Not that Suicidalists give a **** about Death, anyways.
Suicidalist
"A live body and a dead body contain the same number of particles. Structurally, there's no discernible difference. Life and Death are unquantifiable abstracts. Why should I be concerned?" - Doctor Manhattan
Suicidalists are the only scumbags on this planet who make any sense. We see the cycle of madness, and have turned heel on it. We don't slave to corporations, distributing the creeds of greed that help them grind the well-being of communities to their liking. We don't excuse our ignorance to this matter by basking in passing fancies: tossing ridiculous values at materalistic garbage, chasing shallow dreams to inflate our fragile egos, crafting sets of personae to gain equally artificial respect from other insecure pansies, or otherwise convincing ourselves of the ludicrous idea that affection is key to existence. This is what you disillusioned assholes have made Life, and Suicidalists have long stopped giving a **** about Life. We can see past the soluted bullshit because we do not carry the fear...The fear that drives you to file your soul inside a company's cabinet, to romanticize chains of events and the resulting interactions, to stupidly attach to the people within them...Suicidalists have long stopped giving a **** about Death.
Non-Suicidalists are convinced that life is an excellent adventure that all potential organisms should have the chance to grab by the balls and experience. A miracle, of sorts. Wrong. Upon arrival, every specimen is fed manufactured ideals and customs, some of which are rooted in the concepts of freedom, as ironic as THAT shit is. Once they've cluttered your guts with their nonsense, you're sent to hang your hopes on the line, fighting for your interpretation of what they've told you a 'lifestyle' should be, only realizing too late once you're crushed, fatigued, in-debt and half-dead that it was never about you or any sorry individual obtaining happiness, but about keeping this cycle of madness going until new cogs are ready to replace you, just as blind to the crud at the end of the rainbow as you were before you stepped in it.
But who better to aid you in this mock journey of enlightenment than your fellow man? They're just cogs in the machine too, so they're on your side, right? Yeah, ****ing right. The conveyor belt of bullshit we call society brews conflict as big as wars and as small as a girl's jealousy over her friend's new boy toy. The creatures next to you are as vile and shiesty as the one in the mirror, hungry for attention and praise, forever willing to spit on your way of life if it means shining their own, or simply disconnecting themselves from your circle once they're no longer entertained by your theatrics, your still-remaining fondness for them be damned. I'm reminded of how parents selfishly live their fantasy lives through their children, and of lovers who can't tell the difference between passion and puppet strings. Neither of these roles play out the way they're scripted to; parents silently resenting you for not transforming into an exaggerated version of themselves, only claiming to respect the 'you' that reality spat out because successful parenting is the final goal they haven't yet failed at, and they would rather die lying to themselves that they've succeeded; lovers allowing petty things such as finances and distance to come between them, running off to bathe in another person's filthy cum if the sweet-nothings sound good enough. Life isn't a bitch. It's a dead whore being gang-****ed in her icy cunt. Not that Suicidalists give a **** about Life, anyways.
And of Death? Death isn't shit. It's empty. The punchline to the joke that is Life. If anything, it is to be respected MORE than it's counterpart, because unlike Life, Death is honest. It doesn't showcase gourmet dinners while a musty bum climbs into a trash bin for scraps outside. It claims to close the curtain on this awful play, and that's exactly what the **** it does. People (non-suicidalists) who've been cocked about for so long cannot fathom this brutal honesty and opt to sink their rotten teeth into yet ANOTHER charade. They trick themselves to believe in 'legacies' and 'fate.' Helpless against Death, these terms tuck the lame ****s into the cycle of madness, for without them, the glaring facts that make Life the idiotic joint-venture it is are exposed. Once you're dead, you do not witness the fruits of the efforts media machines told you were necessary. None of the relationships you thought magical and destined to be amount to anything but a memory. The despicable pleasures and mild grievances you took part in were lost long ago. Any rippling effects you may have made while inside the cycle simply add to the hulking heap of shit this species will accumulate until extinction, and if that specific clump of dung didn't smell like you, it would smell like another being. Death isn't something to fear, or worship, or decorate with overrated achievements. It simply exists to remind you daydreaming shitheads of how much of a waste everything truly is. It's the forced, half-hearted laugh you'd give for a friend at the end of their bad joke. Not that Suicidalists give a **** about Death, anyways.