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Pretty uncool to be making fun of people with a mental disorder.
The person depicted in this comic is clearly a hoarder and is clearly drawn to be visually reminiscent of a Neanderthal or another less evolved variant.
Hoarders need help and treatment, not made fun of.
...But I guess punching down is how people have fun.
Homie that's just the art style, look at how fucked up the professor dude looks. No one is saying hoarders are Neanderthals but you
Homo habilus, in case you were wondering
I did not for even a second believe the artist was looking to depict a realistic view of a particular species, just the standard cultural view of early humans (ie so easy a caveman could do it). So no, I was not wondering.
I reject your comment.
It's clearly the intent.
You have nothing to base that off of because you aren't the artist are you? All I see is an artist who has good varied character design, a character with admittedly a unibrow, and two people on the internet getting offended over something nonsensical.
So a normal Monday
do i have to be the artist to interpret art?
^ This person does not understand how critique works. Sad shame.
You don't need to be the artist to form an understanding of the artwork, use context clues to ascertain meaning, or intuit subtle ideas. It's visual art after all, not prose.
Further, identifying an ugly quality which is presented plainly doesn't mean we're offended by it, it means we're observed something the creator showed to us. ....or do you automatically assume anything you don't like is bad? I probably should have asked but, are you very young?
You clearly don't have an understanding of the artwork, you've made an assumption of a depiction based off of a stylistic choice. E.g (monobrow equals neanderthal) and did you really just ask that while automatically assuming I'm very young?
That would be like me assuming since you immediately resorted to attempting to attack me as a person you have low intelligence and are a bad debater, but I would never assume something so crass.
I didn't make that assumption.. you're confusing me with Mac who made comment which started the discussion. Adults with fully developed brains tend to be a little better at storing and recalling information like this, just FYI. Stay in school.
Nice comeback, really burned me
That's not what I read here at all - it says "I should keep this." Many of us have an urge to keep things, and in many cases we're justified in doing so. Every person has had the experience of evaluating whether or not to keep an object, and I would guess most people have come up with specious reasons to tell themselves they should keep a thing. Hoarding is just taking that to the extreme. Because this comic is recognizing a tendency in one's self it seems completely misplaced to say it's punching down.
If the people who need this kind of help see the comic and get upset maybe it will spur them to get the help.
Good one?
It's far more likely to make them avoid comics in case they see another one like it and then withdraw further into their hobby.
Are you sure they wouldn't just start hoarding comics? Lol
I can't even take you serious with this train of thought lmao
Ok?
Found the hoarder?
Dumbest fucking comment here.
You can defend your fellow humans without suffering their problems.
Well, maybe you cant, but the rest of us can.
Sometimes!
These people sure are fiesty about a comic
F'realz.
You nailed it.