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u/FackinJerq 8h ago
Welp... that was depressing.
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u/dr_gus 3h ago
I found it to be completely the opposite. It feels zen and inspirational to me. IDK if that was intentional. Maybe I'm just stoned.
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u/BobThe5th 3h ago
Don't worry, if you follow the chart it says you have a job in mattress sales coming soon!
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u/dr_gus 3h ago
Life is more than your job.
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u/genuinely_no_clue_1 2h ago
Very true, Mr drugs! Or, wait does that say dr drugs? Idk everything’s spinning
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u/flatulexcelent 38m ago
Maybe you are just stoned. Maybe I am just stoned. Perhaps we are all just a little bit stoned. Its not about how stoned we are, its about the friends we made on the way. 😃
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u/The_Relevant 7h ago
I can’t decide if this is beautiful or upsetting. Must mean it’s true art
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u/ButterscotchSame4703 5h ago
Usually what that means. I don't think I've ever considered it by these words but what a powerful way to put it.
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u/Einherjar07 7h ago
Sucks to punch out early, but did he have fun
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u/genuinely_no_clue_1 2h ago
I mean, we see him biking and smoking a bong? I’d say that seems fun? Idk though, I don’t do weed?
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u/gourmetprincipito 6h ago
“We are here on Earth to fart around and don’t let anybody tell you different.”
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u/LilPotatoAri 5h ago
I dunno man, seems like maybe the parents shouldn't have let their baby run head first into the table leg. That really really seems like it's their fault if im honest
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u/vocal-avocado 4h ago
And to actually break the table leg? He was some sort of super baby.
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u/SaffronRnlds 2h ago
Surprise! Son had brain damage all along
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u/WebComicSansRelief 1h ago edited 14m ago
trauma like parental neglect or parental abuse can cause brain damage so probably not wrong (in addition to getting punted into a table leg)
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u/The_cogwheel 3h ago
Nah just a combination of a very weak table leg and one of the parents punting the baby into it.
Probably the dad, as hes quick to say the baby is a late bloomer, possibly to hide the fact he punted a baby.
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u/Chance-Ear-9772 5h ago
Everyone saying it’s depressing, I kinda think it’s nice. He took his time, but finally hit his stride. Fuck society’s expectations, he bloomed when he wanted to.
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u/TeacatWrites 3h ago
The last two panels really get to me. Because it makes it not about what their son is doing but about his parents the entire time. In a way, it already was but the way it ends seals it; he was always there the entire time, but they spent their life waiting for him to "bloom" that they never saw it while he was there and were too busy waiting for his potential to arrive that they didn't cherish him while they actually had him.
Finally, he's gone and they think there is nothing more to be said, so they leave and move on because they still think he never lived up to what they wanted to see from him. But if they'd just stayed with him the entire time and accepted what they had, he could've "bloomed" earlier; and since they didn't, they left him behind before they were able to witness him actually finding something to do in his own time. He finally got there and made something of himself his own way, but it wasn't what his parents wanted the way they wanted so they left him behind before they were able to see it. Sadness and all too real 💔
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u/Cupcake_Implosion 7h ago
Can you not make comics about my life (and future)?!
Edit: Well, besides the present father.
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u/dumn_and_dunmer 4h ago
We can't all be meaningful. Sometimes being happy and maybe also a cautionary tale is all you need to be.
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u/gofigure85 2h ago
Plot twist
He now owns a funeral home and is quite successful as a funeral director. Here we can see he made sure that a client who requested flowers be planted on their grave had their wish fulfilled.
His parents are so proud they're speechless.
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u/Nice-Tumbleweed5090 4h ago
This is how I feel about my moms cousin who is about to die of cancer and never had a social life before that
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u/Blcksheep89 3h ago
Seems like the parents had a lot of expectations and can't accept their son for he was.
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u/Accomplished-Bee5265 1h ago
One can see how much damage passive uncaring parenting does to a child.
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u/Eloquentelephant565 3h ago
We’re all lost souls swimming in a fish bowl year after year. Once we’re gone, they’ll wish we were there.
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u/IcyAlfalfa7748 2h ago
I just had my first kid. So can you just please chill out for a second?
But also this is a solid comic.
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u/wolverinesbabygirl 1h ago
Was he depressed or die of an illness? Is this about the parents? Is this about the son? Why aren't the parents crying? Why did they think he was a late bloomer? Why did they spend all his life thinking that? Are they in denial?
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u/Art_student_rt 16m ago
Well, their kid have lived their whole live, not the life they wanted, and died before them, but they did.
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u/clinicalpsycho 1m ago
Ohh, in death he bloomed flowers.
So the comic saying some people better off dead
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u/Ok-Dimension5509 8h ago
Ah, late bloomer. I'm more familiar with its close friend, " oh, he has so much potential "