[Camp Comic] Thursday, December 21, 2017 - Party Down

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[Camp Comic] Thursday, December 21, 2017 - Party Down

Party Down

http://campcomic.com/comic/490

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Skizz

Bottom row:

Seventeen has a wooden party hat and she took it off to be sad. That is the most adorable thing I have seen this week, and I own a cat.

ThatsARockFact

Awww, Malachi was crying.

briguy

Judging by his red eyes, Malachi has been crying the entire way back. But he did the right thing, the mature thing, the selfless thing and let Linus leave. At least Brian and Seventeen can comfort him now.
Maybe one day, Malachi will get the chance to throw Linus another party. The future isn’t set in stone.

TheOneThatGotAway

Ugh, that feeling of crying so much you just can't cry anymore...

xUsako

Those will be my eyes in ten minutes, THANKS ADAM AND KATIE *sobs*

StitchedLips

I've followed this comic from the start. I think this arc is my favorite so far. Also, Brian looks astonished and might want to look for his own way out yet he cares about Malachi and sat that feeling aside.. for now.

nocentre

Aside from being another great strip... that's a perfect title.

SynDuo

Unseen tears :' ) I really enjoy that you are killing us with emotions here.
(Masterful page)

RoaringRaven

Those red eyes say a lot.

beeftruck

Listen, this comic is just great. I'm not normally someone who comments and I'm only commenting now because I'm blizted. But it's fantastic.

Hawk1966

Wow, that got even the stoic Brian was stunned. Amazing tug at the heartstrings. Panel 8. That kills me.

Ilze123

thank you. /great stuff

pogley

My heart was already broken, and now it's doubled. The red eyes are a brilliant indication... x

Christian LeBlanc

Brian is so sad for his little friend! Even...even the rock in the last two panels looks sad (if you tilt your head sideways)

Cryptkicker

If a future comic has a Linus-shaped skeleton in it, I'm not gonna be happy....

marsilies

Remember when we thought that the worst that would happen with this storyline is that Malachi would throw Linus a big party and Linus would hate it?
http://campcomic.com/comic/429

Brob

Those poor red eyes have had quite the journey...
Brian's initial shock leaves me looking at the last panel wondering if he's showing sorrow or dawning realization that one can leave the camp...

Caleb

Aww...his eyes are red from crying...

Peter Rogan

Coming of age means your birthday means something else now.

Fellow

Did 17 tear up the books for the happy birthday decoration?

AdamRW

@cryptkicker At the risk of killing some of the mystery... don't worry. There's zero percent chance of that happening.

exohobbit

I *still* think Linus was Malachai's imaginary friend or alter ego. It all fits perfectly. Linus has been Malachai's idea of what an older, wiser version of himself would be like. And now he has "left camp" -- because Malachai found his real older, wiser self in the office with Neiman, and now he doesn't need Linus any more.

Pyrian

@cryptkicker @adamrw Yeah, we know that one girl would quickly and expertly dig a grave for his remains, whether he was dead yet or not.

Kairos615

Oh, Seventeen. I've missed you.

briguy

@Adamrw I'm on to your mindgames! There can't be a skeleton if they never find the body!

BlaiseCorvin

My theory:

The campers were all unhappy kids who died young and possibly violently.

Camp is where they can have the childhood they were robbed, and find acceptance for themselves or put away their inner demons before moving on to the greater afterlife before puberty.

Camp is not purgatory, it's healing.

Evidence:

17's blowing up still w/ her family, Brian's knife and fighting, etc etc.

Maybe Linus committed suicide. When Malachi believed in him, that was what he needed to move on before he grew of age and had to go some place else.

By the flashbacks of the kids, you can see that this world at least loosely follows the same rules as our own. However, in camp, somehow all the kids survive on little food drops of barely edible food.

TL:DR, I think Camp is a place of healing for the campers before moving on.

PaizleeRox

I've had this list for a while, and given the new theories about purgatory, I might as well list it again. (almsot) every named character is in here, not counting more obscure ones or ones we haven't seen for a while.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1stG7vsdRkdpBCQWeFzrT6CCrqwvoQLnEMoMhZ9fzhqQ/edit?usp=sharing

Nagora

@BLAISECORVIN "Camp is not purgatory, it's healing."

That's what purgatory is supposed to be for - to "purge" (get it? purge-purgatory) you so you can move on up. Tolkien used and illustrated this idea in his short story "Leaf, by Niggle". Worth a read.

Skizz

Row 3:

Red eyed. Monotone, repetative voice.

Will we ever know what Malachi saw, alone in the deep woods?
Or, maybe he is just allergic to all the cats.

It’s a mystery.

poipoigirl

Seventeen is too cute ;.;

motorfirebox

@Adamrw Well of course not. When a bear swallows you whole there's no skeleton left to find!

Peter Rogan

Now begins the complex process of grief.

Lovely

Awwwww, Malachi. Baby. Look at his eyes. I just wanna give the lil guy a hug.

VisionAri

@NAGORA: That was a delightful story. Thanks for the recommendation.

Ged

is it just me, or does Brian look way skinnier?

poipoigirl

I think its just how he was drawn this time.

hajen

Ged wrote: »

is it just me, or does Brian look way skinnier?

growth spurt!
once the oldest child leaves camp (i.e. becomes an adult), the next oldest child then begins the transformative process. /speculation

davidhbrown

Brian might well be skinnier -- certainly, despite heroic efforts, the camp food is not too good nor plentiful. In comparing some of the earliest drawings of Brian -- say, http://campcomic.com/comic/25 -- he seems very slumped down while here is is standing tall. (It would not be beyond Katie and Adam for that in itself to be meaningful and deliberate.)

aflyingskypie

@HAJEN you mean like how aging works =P

Sarge

BUt they can still have a party, right? :0