if you haven’t read any of @maximumgraves What Happens Next, you really should. he posted the last update for the current chapter, so now’s as good a time as any.
an extremely Real feeling work, incredible writing (character and macro-level). easily would call if one of my favorite webcomics of all time.
lot of CWs associated with the actual work, but each chapter starts with a summary there (which creates some unbelievable dread when a chapter starts with “CW suicide attempt”.)
anyway. check it out.
I didn't like this comic at first. I wasn't sure if it was mocking its protagonist for being an always-the-victim manchild Tumblrino, or taking his side and arguing that his trauma was so bad he has no agency and should never have any responsibilities. Took a while to build trust that no, the artist is doing a thing called Nuance here.
(reading the comments under each panel helped me tremendously in figuring out subtext)
And once I did start liking it, ouch, it felt personal.
Like, I've never been in this exact situation, obviously, but boy howdy have I been a terminally-online twentysomething queer fuckup, and sometimes the comic's aim is so goddamn precise