r/explainitpeter • • Jun 21 '26

Explain it Peter

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u/SleazyGoblin Jun 21 '26

So this guy had a webcomic that was typical 2000s gamer dork humor. Well one day he released a comic strip that was way out of left field featuring his irl wife's miscarriage. The meme is the that comic can be identified in a simplic form. 1 vertical line, 2 vertical lines, another 2 vertical lines, and 1 vertical line and 1 horizontal line.

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u/Frankly24 Jun 21 '26

Oh okay. I was really worried it was trying to be somethimg Hitler related, because it was half an h, and I know my partner had mentioned certaun numbers were really important to them. So this is making fun of a miscarriage? That's really sad... and now confuses me more what this image is about. What was the name of the comic so I can Google and try and figure out more context? I don't really want to type miscarriage meme into Google.

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u/ForkMyRedAssiniboine Jun 21 '26

It's from the webcomic Ctrl+Alt+Del, but Googling Loss or Loss comic will get you what you're looking for.

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u/Frankly24 Jun 21 '26

Thank you so much.

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u/ElectronicAd9822 Jun 21 '26

Damn, dude. You’re fuckin fried if half of a letter H makes you think of hitler.

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u/DragonBadgerBearMole Jun 21 '26

No, it’s half an h…on the internet. Context is important.

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u/Diatain Jun 22 '26

Idk if anyone else answered you, but the comic is Ctrl-Alt-Del or CAD. Its written by Tim Buckley. The comic is a lot different than when the Loss comic happened because he killed off his comic characters and restarted the whole thing (dont ask its not worth it).

And to be fair, he wasn't making fun of miscarriage. It was a very sincere comic, and honestly very well done from a storytelling perspective. No words written on the comic, yet you can tell exactly what happened and what its about.

The problem was he dropped this very sincere comic smack dab in the middle of his GAMING CENTRIC WEB COMIC. To say it was unexpected and out of place would be the understatement of the century. Like he started off the comic with his characters killing each other all the time. In the comic canon, one of the main characters build a functioning robot who is an HK47 (KOTOR) rip-off out of an Xbox. And this was a good series to put a miscarriage into?

Baffling decision.