Kids Say The Most Existentially Terrifying Things
Long-time forum member Ben Driscoll has been posting his webcomic Daisy Owl in the forum since July. Here's another one of our favorites.
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This is neither absurdist nor existentialist (both of which are reasonably respectable philosphies of human existence). If it is an 'ist' at all (which is mootist and the jurist is outist there) it is nonsensicalist (a pretend term for an pretend article).
ReplyExpecting some kind of article about toddlers coming out with sophisticated existentialist comments (not, perhaps, as surprising as it first appears because toddlers, being pretty much exclusively focused on having their wants and needs gratified as sharpish as you like, are the most hideously existentialist beings around), I am,in fact, treated (using 'treated in its incorrect sense of becoming sighingly aware that I'd just been cheated) to a cartoon by an adult wherein the toddler character expresses angst ridden despair about something he could not, in real life, possibly talk about or understand to an older sister (perhaps just about in primary school, who couldn't possibly comprehend him and who gives him practical advice.
Way to go, Ben. Maybe you could do a cartoon with him on Social Darwinism, wherein he plots with his sister to introduce a eugenic programme and get rid of all the toddlers who can't understand and coverse about existentialism by the time they are three?
We must use the sophisticated italics to make our stupid selves sound intelligent.
ReplyQuick, before they change it back!
this is more absurdist than existentialist
ReplyA lot of people wonder why Cracked allows Daisy Owl on their site. The answer is rather simple. Cracked uses an anti-humor reaction to power their servers, office, and still. That's why webcomics like this one are carefully mixed in to the site when something like a Dick Whiskey comic or DOB's tequila review gets published. I don't recall what went live the same week as this, back in 2008, but it was probably hilarious.
Replyjust curious..but why are all the comments in italics?
ReplyWhen the writer adds italics to the end of an article here and doesn't end the tag afterward, they don't always realize that it actually effects the comments underneath.
Grook: *affects.
I used to have dreams where I would fall into the sky. Scary shit.
ReplyI used to get freaked out by 'row row row your boat' because at the end it says 'life is just a dream'
Replywonder if that was the starting point for the matrix?
The line is actually, "Life is BUT a dream." Same basic principle, though. Never thought of it until now.... creepy stuff.
When I was about 4 years old, I started having a reoccurring nightmare whenever I came down with a bad fever. Basically, I was in an infinite void where smallest parts of the universe would cause infinitely-loud voices to condemn me. I compared it to a single "plip" of water falling into an ocean and causing a nuclear reaction. Good stuff.
ReplyWhen I was just over a year old I woke up my mother by sitting on her chest and telling her she was going to die
ReplyAnd then a skeleton popped out.
ReplyDon't lie to the kid! Of course skeletons exist! There's one under the floorboards in his bedroom right NOW.
ReplyThe last two panels should have been one. Otherwise, hillarious!
ReplyDoes it mean anything bad about my character if I say that this was an actual nightmare I used to have as a child? And still occaisionally do get?
ReplyNo, I use to have nightmares like that, too. Actually, you should have yourself checked.
Skeletons dont exist? Whats holding me up??
ReplyThe Universe.
I'm trying to think but nothing happens
ReplyEntirely unfunny.
ReplyWant to see something funny? take a look down your pants...
This is like a template for how to pace and end a really good comic strip. I'm going to study it obsessively, and try not to quote it to death.
ReplyI agree it's got good pacing, if only the punchline were better. I suppose "good mechanically, but not funny" is better than the reverse.
something tells me it was less about being funny and more about being poetic.
HILARRIBLE.
Replylol twas good
ReplySkeletons are real. There's like whole museums of 'em.
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