Memetic #1

[history79]

13 pages of 39

Comments

[informationgeek]

Spoilers: Everyone dies at the end of the comic.

There you go. Save you some trouble. God I hate and despise with all my being endings like that. What a f**king waste of time. What's the point if everyone dies at the end? It's like Uzumaki all over again.

[nyadnar17]

Thank you. Seriously thank you.

What a freaking waste of a cool concept

[informationgeek]

You know what would have been better? Curing this with another meme. Think about it, this Memetic... but there is only ONE meme in this entire comic and this comic is all about how memes suck people in. What would be the best way to deal with a meme that's causing an outbreak that turns people into rage monsters? A different, cleverly made meme! After all, memes constantly come and go online when a better or more in the moment one shows up. I mean, let's be clever here and go all the way with this concept, but no... just... no apparently. Let's just kill everyone off and treat this mostly as a generic zombie apocalypse idea.

[captainbellman]

"To stop those monsters, one-two-three,

Here's a fresh new way that's trouble-free,

It's got Paul Anka's guarantee...

(Guarantee void in Tennessee.)

Just don't look! Just don't look!"

[matrix_dragon]

*Meme Monsters rage around town. Cute Cat Photos appear.*

"Awww... wait, why am I holding a crowbar?"

[remial]

"Awww... wait, why am I holding a crowbar?"

"You saw the sloth picture too?"
"Sloth picture? What, ummm yeah, I saw it too..."

[penguinzero]

That's an idea that's been around for a long time, but it would have been a good way to resolve this. I remember reading a light-hearted version in a book from the 1950s or so when I was a kid -- I had to look it up, but it was from the Homer Price books. A record plays a song that people can't get out of their heads, and when they sing along to it, anyone who hears them singing it gets infected too. They eventually solve it by going even further back, to a story by Mark Twain, which had a similar song you can't get out of your head -- but once you sing it to someone once, it goes away. The concept's been around for a lot longer than the idea of memetics, in any case.

[malitia]

Well, the mission control woman in the bunker might survive if she can wait out the great old ones leaving (they probably will after eating all of humanity), but that's not likely. :/

I don't feel like spoilering that, this story doesn't deserve it.

[bradygirl_12]

I didn't know Alfred was moonlighting as a doctor.

A sloth, huh? Nice jab at Internet addicts there, just like the whole theme of everyone just staring, staring, staring...

[captainbellman]

People: I really, really did not like this comic.

[pyrrhocorax]

Gosh, but it’s so cool and Lovecrafty! Y’now, like, zombies! Cthulhu is eating their braaaaaaains!!

[thatnickguy]

I don't see how this concept has lasting power to go past even 4 issues.

[informationgeek]

Funny you say that. The comic was a 3 issue long mini-series.

[thatnickguy]

Ah! Heh, well that works, too. Even if the concept itself is thin, at best.

[informationgeek]

I feel that's the unintentional running theme for Tynion here with this, Cognitive, and Eugenic. Three issue mini-series about the end of the world with interesting concepts, but ultimately never really make use of their concepts enough and just end with some grandiose statement about the human condition and the world before killing everyone.

[matrix_dragon]

Hypnotoad is not impressed someone is stealing his gimmick.

Also, look, a Sloth Meme should not incite violence. They're SLOTHS. This meme should cause people to shut down, grow their hair long, and let god only knows what grow in the new layer of fur.

[malitia]

In the last stage it causes them to meld together into giant flesh towers and summon the great old ones (who then eat them).

Your guess is as good as mine where that came from.