One of my many theories on the true nature of the camp is that it is an experiment on Malachi.
We know from snippets of his backstory that his dad was some kind of genius scientist and Malachi wasn't measuring up, so maybe this was some kind of test by him. Real or virtual.
Of course this ignores some things and it's not my favorite interpretation (I'm a fan of awful families abandoning their kids and the kids learning their true selves and their own value), but I've thought it.
Haha
Ok, that's really funny, Malachi wiping the poo on Seventeen.
We know why they are here: Because their parents are selfish assholes. Unless this is the joke and they just start creating epileptic trees Lost style.
So far this comic has yet to disprove my theory that all the kids are in hospitals and this is a shared consciousness for their comatose states. Let's see how long I can keep that up.
As an added bonus, this way I like to believe that anyone who "dies" or leaves the camp mysteriously just woke up and was reunited with their family.
I think the post-modernist explanations of this being a simulation/etc fall into that "What if the world were created ten minutes ago?" vein - not compelling and ultimately unprovable.
"We do not allow wizards to cast spells in our game, for that is the most unbalanced rule of all."
I didn't really look properly at the 4th panel, I just had my eyes peripherally view at the image, while reading the text and I think to myself "Man, what a douche. Would be even worse if he wiped his hand, not just place it". And so I observe the picture and lo and behold, Katie and Adam knew their stuff
I like Malachi. I love his self-centered, jealous little face. He's so terrible, but good, in his own way. He'd be an awful person to be around in real life, but as a character, I like him and his antics and failures and growth.
And so narcissism passes to solipsism... I will not be surprised to find Malachi trying to answer the question of why he created so elaborate an illusion to entrap himself. When he gazes into his own navel, he sees a wormhole of nothing but his own navel, ad infinitum.
If anything, I moreso pity Malachi because let's face it-his crappy home life and relationship with his abusive butthead mother has done wonders to his self esteem. He's a dead ringer for the page image for TV Tropes' "Superiority-Inferiority Complex."
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Also, those clothes will never be cleaner than they are right now, will they?
We know from snippets of his backstory that his dad was some kind of genius scientist and Malachi wasn't measuring up, so maybe this was some kind of test by him. Real or virtual.
Of course this ignores some things and it's not my favorite interpretation (I'm a fan of awful families abandoning their kids and the kids learning their true selves and their own value), but I've thought it.
Haha
Ok, that's really funny, Malachi wiping the poo on Seventeen.
I'll show myself out. :P
As an added bonus, this way I like to believe that anyone who "dies" or leaves the camp mysteriously just woke up and was reunited with their family.
Like... of all time?
Would be quite an accomplishment, wouldn't it?
also: haha Malachi picked up poo XD.
especially with such rich and luxurious emollients?
It's all-natural, locally sourced and bio-degradable. People pay good money for that kind of stuff!
My god this comic needs way more love!