Life on The Streets

[cyberghostface]

 

Warning, you might find it messed up/offensive

From SpaceAvalanche

Comments

[icon_uk]

Well... that's.... depressingly pointless, but mostly just depressing.

[big_daddy_d]

..I don't get it. I was into it, thinking it was about a man and his dog..then..this other stuff. Not quite getting the message here.

[venatosapiens]

I'm going to say that there seems to be a weirdly...prostitutiony vibe here? Which I don't get at all. It's very strange and kind of uncomfortable.

[funbox]

I've been assuming that the first dog represents a friendly pusher of unhealthy items and that the subsequent dogs are just dealers supplying his addiction or bad habits.

[blackruzsa]

Um.
Okay.
It was adorable and then
uhm.

[badfaun]

welp this is really NOT OKAY IN ANY SENSE

[arilou_skiff]

I don't get it?

Are the dogs fattening him up to eat him? What's going on?

[espanolbot]

More they got him addicted to their good will, getting affection in exchange for "payment". Then he got raped by the bigger dog.

Yeah, more than a little messed up.

[ensiform]

It set up an interesting enough premise, but then.... I guess the writer took some of the same drugs his protagonist did and just kept drawing weirdness until it made no sense and he ended it when he needed to pass out? I guess?

[espanolbot]

It makes sense. It's horrible, but it makes sense.

Metaphor for prostitution ending in rape.

Figured it out

[big_daddy_d]

Ok I had to look at the comic again as well as follow the link to the site and check out the comments. I'm going to copy and paste what someone poosted.

"It’s a parody of the pimp who pretends to be the homeless guy/girl’s boyfriend and gives them food and drugs, only to lure them into prostitution.

The dog pretends to be the guy’s friend and brings him food, drugs, etc, but then when he’s hooked, the dog brings his mates over to hump the guy’s leg. When the guy refuses, the dog takes the food away and so he eventually he just lets the dogs hump his leg and sobs into his fries as he wonders how he got into this situation."

Re: Figured it out

[aeka]

Well. If that's what this comic is supposed to be parodying, that's just bloody awful (and worse than I initially thought).

Re: Figured it out

[ensiform]

Not clever, not fun, not well-executed.

And utterly pointless. Everyone is aware that this situation can exist with certain predatory people and others who are insecure and without a safety net. Why "parody" it in this way? Not that it is actually a parody. More of an allegory. But still, pointless, unfunny, and uninteresting.

Re: Figured it out

[funbox]

Ok forget what I said, this is some grade "A" bleakness. I mean, the implications on the latter bits are horrifying...

Re: Figured it out

[icon_uk]

Depressingly I got the "joke" on first reading, I just couldn't figure out why anyone would make it in the first place.

[lucky_gamble]

Ehhhh...I get it but it's just tasteless

Mod Note

[salinea]

It feels like it wouldn't be amiss to post a warning that this is mainly a shock value, gross out sort of comics. Please, put one above the cut.

[thanekos]

The dog's meat, he's seen it!

[cleome45]

Mostly it fails for me because humans generally oversee domestic animals, and not vice versa.

With all humans, or all animals, it might have worked better.

[funbox]

The human in question is both homeless and under the influence of intoxicating substances, so its not entirely out of the question that he was too groggy, scared, or malnurished to do anything. But I do get your point, it definetively would've been better with either of those.

[sadoeuphemist]

That doesn't make sense. Humor derives from the reversal of expectations. If it was a human prostituting out another human, there wouldn't be a joke.

[cleome45]

I don't find the attempted reversal effective. Maybe a story where the man and the dog had a little more personality both visually and verbally, it would have been effective. I don't know. All I'm saying is that in this context it really doesn't work for me at all.