Comics
can say a little or a lot. They can be good for a laugh, or good for a thought.
In my own opinion the best ones can do both. Here’s one about a half man/half
moon monkey trying to make sense of it all. I rather feel that’s where
civilization is at now anyways.
Void
Dogs
are certainly well known as Man’s best friend. More than anything else though
it is because someone will notice that there is a rather vacant or void spot it
their life. Really they just seem to have fallen into the spot. But they don’t
so much fit the shape as we shape them into a placeholder. Not to say you don’t
really love and receive love in return, but if you do it right you don’t really
give the dog much of a choice.
As human beings we grow a void as we
experience life. Our feelings alone are no longer enough to keep us going. We
realize that we like to feel wanted and loved, especially when we can’t always
love ourselves. So we look for something, some people try and find it in their
children. You can certainly feel wanted, even needed, perhaps even loved for a
time. But as soon as they need less, they move onto experience. They don’t need
you like you might need them, and you can’t control a kid like you can a dog. But
even then you only ever have placeholders to something that doesn't go away.
This huge human idea of a hole, a
void, in our existence is coming from an eight box comic. The existence of the argument
is even an argument. We have a void we need to fill and that can be well
expressed in something it takes twenty seconds or less to look at. And really that’s
exactly what it needs to be. Get a laugh about a man buying a dog to feel
needed, when a moment ago he was attempting to tell his son he didn't need a
dog to do that. You have your laugh, but
you get the message. In your busy day or quite hours, maybe you think about
that comic, maybe you recognize that void in yourself. And then its only a
click away to see it again, and see others, and perhaps see if there is also an
real answer to the void somewhere out there.
