When actual time/mortality is introduced into stories where it doesn't belong (like stuff for kids) it's especially searing and jarring. There's a Tintin pastiche I bought in Paris that has Snowy dying (with Tintin holding the body) and it's fucking unbearable.
[Image] I saw this printed in the back of an issue of Cerebus a few months after Jim Henson died. One of those things that gets to me even when I just remember it.
"This is sad, but worthy"
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I TOTALLY remember that!
May 16, 2012 7:41 PM
Amazing.
When actual time/mortality is introduced into stories where it doesn't belong (like stuff for kids) it's especially searing and jarring. There's a Tintin pastiche I bought in Paris that has Snowy dying (with Tintin holding the body) and it's fucking unbearable.
May 17, 2012 5:30 AM
Very worthy. And damn sad.
May 17, 2012 8:15 AM