I’m interested in the ‘live like it’s early 2020’ bit; what do you mean there?

Now this, I can definitely see. Not to wax melancholic, but mine was an abnormal and truncated childhood, so I never found the comic personally relatable, and that might amount for the disconnect - it always came across as either outlandish and nonsensical (bordering on lolsorandumb) to faux-deep and mollycoddling of the reader’s inner toddler that never seemed much more than condescending to me.

But in the context of cueing it through the hypothetical series of how a regular adult might reminisce about their own childhood, the nostalgic, near-wistful fondness I see for it makes a lot more sense, even if to me it feels saccharine and, dare I say, disingenuous.

Thanks!

“Shite” is kind of harsh, I’d say. It’s not an awful strip. It’s just made out to be much better than it really is. It’s a single step above “run-of-the-mill”.

Yeah, mea culpa on that. My phrasing was bad, but I edited the OP to clarify.

Nope, but I edited the post to clarify.

The comic itself isn’t, but it’s going to be merchandised to hell at first opportunity, is what I meant.

Oh wow, I forgot about khinsider!

I wish he still made comics like these. I visit his site pretty regularly and these really work great as an early-2010’s time capsule of sorts.

But he focuses on other stuff now and I can’t really blame him.

I think you win just for originality and not “witnessed very violent happening.”

Not that violence isn’t fucked up, too, but…Jesus.

Ah, well, okay. Egg on my face. I’m a bit tetchy about it since I absolutely despise grassroots/viral marketing stuff. Possibly a bit hypervigilant - mea culpa.

This post: the closest I’ve ever seen to a blatant ad on Lemmy.