Source: https://wondermark.com/c/1582/
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This actually isn’t good! Phones only show you horrors when they’re VERY DEPRESSED, or at any other time
Transcript
Device: Hey! Hey! I can’t help but notice you’ve been holding me less. I miss you. I miss your nimble taps and swipes.
Person: It’s because you’re a portal to horrors! Nothing personal. It’s just… you are a portal. And there are so very many horrors.
Device: I’m a portal to everything. Don’t you want to see goofs and spoofs? You love goofs and spoofs!
Person: I do love goofs and spoofs.
Device: I’ve got so many goofs and spoofs.
(Person reaches for device)
(Person is thrown back; device displays “HORRORS” into the room)
The art in this comic is way better than it has any right to be.
The creator, David Malki, talks about his creative process, which involves scanning Victorian art and recomposing it digitally, here
That last panel in particular seems like a good bit more than that
TBC, it’s just rearranged Victorian-era line-art, part of what makes the “Edits” community so interesting. For example:
https://piefed.social/c/ComicStripEdits/p/1934265/discipline-by-wondermark-notes-in-post
I feel very called out in these trying times
Phones are possibly the biggest technological game changer in the world. They have so supercharged so many aspects of society and economy while bringing down so many others.
The lemmy experience
