"You're Doing It Wrong" -- Apathy and Airplanes

Posted to facebook on March 12th.

This second comic is pretty similar to the one before it, which makes sense cause I drew it like 5 fucking minutes after the first one (though I apparently didn't post it til later that night). I hadn't exactly changed my mindset in that period of time. It was also drawn in MS paint, and the main joke was also formatted to fit the mold of a popular internet meme.

Whatever. Short story time. (Particular emphasis on short, because I can't remember exactly why I drew this one, so I'm basically just making guesses from a present day vantage to fill the holes)

Ahem.

They say good things take time, but great things happen all at once. Well, the same seems to be true of bad and terrible things too. They also seem to lean much more on the "happen all at once" part as well.

Have you ever been in the sort of situation where things just keep getting worse? The sort of situation where the phrase "out of the frying pan and into the fire" seems to have written about you? Well have you ever been in the kind of mood that results from that sort of situation? You're (presumably) human so I'll assume you have. You know the mood I'm talking about. It's the "fuck it" mood. The reaction you'll sometimes get when you've ground your gears for too long without real progress. Allow me to examplify:


It's studying for a huge test for hours and still not getting it.

"Fuck it."

It's continually getting lost on your way to a party when it's dark and nobody is answering their phone.

"Fuck it."

It's trying your best to win back your first love after things fizzle and then she goes and gets a new boyfriend.

"Fuck it."


It's a more common reaction for some than others, but certainly something everyone has done at least once in their life. Usually it's with little things that don't matter and can be easily disregarded. Insignificant things whose neglect will produce meager consequence. Usually it's that shit that at the end of the day, you simply do not care about.

In this particular instance, that was not the case.

I remember being in a pretty "fuck it" mood at the time, so for fun I tried to visualize what that mood might look like if given form and taken to the extreme. I ended up imagining a dude who was fed up with his situation, and purposefully went skydiving without a parachute. For lulz, I wanted to focus on the annoying redundancy of someone else commenting on the shitiness of the situation without offering any help in return.

It's like if in the situation above the person trying to locate the party finally gets a hold of someone and after describing their surroundings the other person on the phone says, "Yeah... you're lost." If you're a nice person you might respond with an overly sarcastic thank you. If you're not a nice person you might respond by calling them an idiot and swearing never to interact with them again. Similarly to what I said earlier, peoples' reactions in that sort of situation tend to vary. It just depends on how large of a prick you are.

Anyways, I attempted to epitomize that reaction of sudden and virulent apathy in conjunction with a useless and annoying douchebag all the while making use of the popular "you're doing it wrong" internet meme. I know, I'm so fucking clever.

Well... it was funny to me, at least. But much like the first comic it didn't receive much of a response.


Whatever, fuck it.