Greetings.
The Animatrix is playing in the background as I write this in between sips of coconut water. No, I'm not at the beach, I'm actually nursing a pretty serious cold and my mom always said that coconut water is nature's medicine. I'm too sick to fact-check that right now, so I'll just have to take her word for it.
Anyway, today's comic introduces another new character: Shooty McSchooly. I think you can guess what his thing is. Yes, making fun of school shootings is kinda morbid, but anyone who knows me in real life can already guess where this fascination with the subject came from. Naturally, I'll assume that you don't know me, so here's some context: I was a fucked up teenager.
There were only two things that kept me from turning into one of these Columbine-wannabes. First, I made real friends and that motivated me to deal with my empathy problems (depersonalization is a bitch). Second, I lived in Brazil and guns weren't exactly easy to acquire back then. So from my perspective as someone who was into this kind of cringy shit, school shootings seem like a naturally ridiculous concept.
I mean, teen angst is never going away, but this kind of thing never used to happen around here until our incompetent ex-president made guns easier to buy. I may be just a silly dude on the internet, but I think it's pretty clear what the problem is. That being said, if any potential school shooters are reading this, I have some advice for you: get laid and go to therapy (not necessarily in that order).
Anyway, do you folks remember how good The Animatrix is? Peak early 2000s vibes. I think World Record is my favorite segment, but almost all the shorts are great. I'm biased, of course, as The Matrix is sort of my comfort franchise (even the last one), but it works even better in animated form.
Oh, did I mention that I've been trying to get back into Anime? I blame Persona 5 for my renewed interest in Japanese media (but the Ultraman manga didn't help). I'm not even that much of a nipponophile, I think I'm just sick of western tropes.
And speaking of being sick, I should log off and make some ginger tea. Hopefully, the internet will still be here tomorrow (although I might not be if I don't get any better). Thanks for reading this far, and I'll be back soon with more shitty-ass doodles.
Chainsaw cheers,
- Optiluiz
PS: Oh God I'm in so much pain right now.
PPS: This week's song was recommended to me by my old blog partner Max. Thanks, Max!