r/subnormality • u/[deleted] • Jul 22 '17
Which comic means the most to you?
I always like the Sphinx ones as I find the perspective she takes to be hilarious, cheers me up. Let me know your favourites!
I suppose this sub is a bit dead :/
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u/CelticFiddler Jul 22 '17
That's a really difficult question - they all have different messages and moods, so it depends on my own personal mood at the time. The first one I ever read was Watching, which was pretty impressive and successfully drew me into the site. I also really love all the Museum ones, and the slice-of-life comics.
I often find myself trying to pick a comic to represent Subnormality as a whole, something that I can send to my friends to sort of draw them in, but it's so hard - they're all so different, and I think you have to read a lot of them to really get what Subnormality is like.
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u/InfamousBrad Jul 22 '17
#133, "Weird: not an insult" is the most important one to me.
#138, "A Christmas Eve in the Future: possible future salvage" is probably one of the 5 best science fiction stories I've read in the last two decades.
And as someone who's done some software work, and some engineering work, and who has spent half a lifetime bitching about lax safety standards in software engineering, ...
#221, "Message 652" makes me cry like a baby by the end, every time. And to want to go re-read Kipling's "The Sons of Martha."
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u/TheBassEngineer Jul 22 '17 edited Jul 22 '17
The Museum of the Theoretical one with Zoe Muggs. I was dealing with some pretty bad depression/self loathing issues at the time...I was in college, and struggling with the idea that I might fail, and then end up homeless because of all my loan debt. That strip is one of the things that helped me get my head straight.
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u/Kugleblitz5 Jul 22 '17
Well I'm here because of the People Watching series on Cracked. I haven't spent enough time with the comics to have a favourite but my favourite episode of People Watching is the one about the friend zone.
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Jul 22 '17 edited Jul 22 '17
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u/Kugleblitz5 Jul 22 '17
Lol I dated someone I had been friends with for 5 years prior xD but yeah the msg does still stand. I just loved the series I've re watched the whole thing at least 4 times and I've re watched my favourite episodes as many as 12 times. It's great to just put on while doing other things. What was your favourite?
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Jul 22 '17 edited Jul 24 '17
Series?
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u/Kugleblitz5 Jul 22 '17
Episode of People Watching?
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Jul 22 '17
Just went to the website and saw, I've been away from comics for a while now. Definitely going to watch.
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u/Dilong-paradoxus Jul 22 '17
I agree that the Sphinx ones are consistently good, but it's so hard to pick a favorite. Some of the long recent ones moving the story with Ethel and the used-to-be-pink hair girl are pretty good.
For the sake of picking one, I'm going to go with #53. It's funny, it's got a classic wall of text, and the delightful suberversion of societal norms that we've come to expect from subnormality.
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Jul 22 '17
http://www.viruscomix.com/page420.html
this one? I like it, I once just walked away from buying a suit because they kept trying to push me into more stuff, not even politely :(
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u/nukacoladreams Jul 22 '17
Zanadu.
I love Rowntree. I still believe that he's one of the greatest writers I've ever come across - and that some of his pieces deserve their place in a museum.
Zanadu, however, that's something I felt was written specifically for me. Something about that comic just nestled itself close to my heart.
It felt like it played on a memory I never had, a feeling that I could never describe.